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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.cybercom.net!ksmm From: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 IDE CDROM Problems Date: 8 Oct 1996 21:31:46 GMT Organization: Cyber Access Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53eh82$fu4@orion.cybercom.net> References: <53b0ca$2p@tribune.usask.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.cybercom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bradley W Mazurek (bwm260@skorpio3.usask.ca) wrote: : The machine is a P5-90 with 40MB Ram. I'm installing 2.1.5 on the : slave drive of the primary IDE controller. The drive is a 3.1GB : Quantum Fireball, and FreeBSD is the only OS on that drive. The : master drive on the controller is a 1GB Western Digital Caviar drive. : I have a QIC-80 drive, both floppies and an IDE CD-ROM. : Any suggestions on a solution to this problem? I've heard of IDE CD-ROM problems that were solved by rearranging the IDE chain so that the CD-ROM was the slave drive on the primary controller. Maybe that will work for you too. : PS. A big thanks to the FreeBSD team. FreeBSD has been my primary OS : for well over a year now, and has been nothing but a pleasure to use. : It's stability has been outstanding...thanks. I agree with you wholeheatedly here. K.S.