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From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 Upgrade gripe
Date: 28 Jan 1997 00:54:37 GMT
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To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
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In article <5cepah$936@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
> Just got the CD-ROM the other day from Walnut Creek and decided to do the
> upgrade from 2.1.5 today. The same old aggravation with the IDE CD-ROM
> drive. Grrrr!
2 comments/suggestions. After reading the rest of this thread, I'm
curious if tried your IDE CDROM as a slave drive (I remember seeing something
to the effect that an IDE CDROM needs to be a slave drive, but maybe that was
for 2.1.5 [?]). Initially, I started with FBSD 2.1.5 and had a similar
problem of FBSD not recognizing my CDROM. I had an old cheap 2X CDROM that
even Micro$oft Win95 wouldn't recognize. My solution was to purchase a new
8X Sony CDU311 IDE CDROM drive for about $105.00 USD (back in Oct.). When I
was attemping to get FBSD to load I ended up talking to Jorden Hubbard. He
explained that not all ATAPI compliant drives are 100% ATAPI compliant
(my old 2X claimed to be 100% ATAPI compliant, but it wasn't). Remember, it
is impossible for the FBSD team to recreate or verify that FBSD works on ALL
80*86 systems.
After I replaced the CDROM drive, I've been using FBSD ever since.
FYI: I wouldn't got back to a Micro$oft OS for ALL the printed currency
in the world!!!
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Burton Sampley
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