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From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 31 Mar 1997 03:45:37 -0800
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> I'm a OS/2 user who wish to learn something about Unix, and so I bought
> the 2.1.7 version of FreeBSD, and I installed it here, but I have some
> questions, and ask for anyone's help.
> 
> 1) I'm using a Creative 8x CD-ROM attached to my mother-board IDE (not
> on SB). Is that possible to make it recognizable by the OS?

I've got the same problem here; for some reason the IDE cdrom
support was removed from the 2.1.7 and 2.2 distributions.