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From: adm2@sarc.city.ac.uk (Alan Messer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE cdrom question
Date: 15 Oct 1996 15:54:38 GMT
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On 14 Oct 1996 15:16:52 GMT, Kelvin Li wrote:
 >I've got a small problem with my IDE CD-ROM.  FreeBSD probes and finds my
 >CD-ROM controller, but it doesn't generate a device like it does with my
 >hard disk.  I've configured it as slave.  I've tried MAKEDEV and it makes
 >a device in the /dev directory, but then when i try to mount it, it says
 >that it's not configured.  What's going on? 

Make sure you have ATAPI support compiled into your kernel. Look in:

/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and LINT for more info.

Alan.
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