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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!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!tirnanog.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: IanG@tirnanog.demon.co.uk (Ian J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 04:01:19 GMT Message-ID: <854769490.17304.0@tirnanog.demon.co.uk> References: <32EFD61F.5925@hem.passagen.se> <32F0DFF7.167EB0E7@acm.org> <32F22BFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tirnanog.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: tirnanog.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/32.126 Lines: 51 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34812 On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:29:33 -0500, Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote: >tom@bu.edu says: > >> Make sure it is configured as the MASTER drive. >> If it is the slave and no master on the 2nd controller you may have >> a problem. > >gabor@acm.org says: > >> Yeah. Make it the slave device on the >> primary IDE channel. I gather you have >> it as master/single device on the >> secondary IDE channel. > >What's wrong with this picture? > >-- >Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256) >BWithrow@BayNetworks.com At this point an opinion has to be offered. Windoze 3.1 works. Windoze 95 Works. OS/2 2.1, 3.0, and 4.0 (notorious for lack of support for CDRoms works) despite Brians cries of half os.... Mine was a bog standard Gateway 2000 P Pro 200 and it would not configure. Had it not been for brian <don't ever lose your sense of humor> (TM) I would have dumped this OS and gone to Linux to play with Unix. It really is time that someone took at look at what is the current standard hardware and released people from the chore of worrying about Master/Slave primary/secondary that you don't have to worry about on *ANY* other platform. In every other respect this OS is (from what I'm told... I've yet to figure it out....) ahead of the other OSs on offer. *shrug* Before someone offers me the *honoured* task I'll say I'm still struggling with vi and the handbook *sigh*..... If I _ever_ get that good I'll give it a shot myself....... but don't hold your breath.... Just my 0.02 cents worth. Regards IanG Regards IanG <IanG@tirnanog.demon.co.uk> "Laughing at ya!" - Funkadelic.