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From: nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with CDROM?
Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:29:41 GMT
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lihong (lihong_yao@nt.com) wrote:
: Has anyone have any insight as to why my CDROM is not recognized by the OS?
: I am using a SAMSUNG 4x CDROM and it is configured as slave on the primary
: IDE controller. When the machine is booted wdc0 is found OK and the system 
: boots normally. I have ran out of ideas for the moment.

Is your kernel configured (and re-compiled) to detect your CD-ROM?  If wdc0
is your CD-ROM drive, have you looked at your /etc/fstab to see where to
mount the device?

HTH

Nate
nvp@nfic.com