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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support Date: 2 Feb 1997 01:09:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5d0pgj$694@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32EFD61F.5925@hem.passagen.se> <32F0DFF7.167EB0E7@acm.org> <32F22BFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> <854769490.17304.0@tirnanog.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34624 IanG@tirnanog.demon.co.uk (Ian J Greely) wrote: > Just my 0.02 cents worth. No, not worth, not even 2 cents. If you followed this newsgroup more closely, you would have noticed that most of these ATAPI problems have already been solved in newer systems. Again, if you have an ATAPI drive, try one of the 2.2 versions (SNAP, BETA, GAMMA (tomorrow :)) first, before complaining here. If you have a good reason to use 2.1.6, well, then you're on your own. 2.1.6 was aimed on people who need stability, not on people who need to get away with the cheapest hardware around. 2.1.x is, technologically seen, a 1.5 years old system. This brings some stability with it, but definately causes it to lack some of the more interesting newer features as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)