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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mount External CD-Rom? Date: 25 Mar 1997 16:10:23 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5h8tdf$o3p@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <3337bf7b.0@news.oit.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37966 Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Gregory Pavelcak (gp@asimov.oit.umass.edu) had the courage to say: : First excuse newcomer ignorance. Perhaps this question is answered : in the documentation and I haven't found it, or I may have read it : without recognizing it as the answer. : I'm having reasonable success with getting FreeBSD on my pentium : laptop, but can't figure out how to make it mount an external : CD-ROM at a PCMCIA slot. Any suggestions? You haven't provided enough information. 'An external CD-ROM at a PCMCIA slot' is a very vague description of the hardware. What kind of CD-ROM; SCSI or ATAPI? What kind of PCMCIA card? (SCSI controller? IDE controller? Proprietary? Empty hunk of plastic with 'PCMCIA' written on it in crayon? What?) What are the vendor names? For that matter, what version of FreeBSD are you using? : Also, just out of curiousity, it seems to me that the hard disk makes : less noise when running FreeBSD than when running Windows 95-- : less cranking up and shutting down. Is it just my imagination or : is there some reason for this. Well, it could be that FreeBSD's filesystem cache is better than Lose95's. Although I don't use it personally, I've installed it a few times at work, and I have noticed that it pounds on the disk quite a lot. I don't really know why. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Now, that's "Open" as used in the sentence "Open your wallet", right?" =============================================================================