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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount external CD-ROM: More Info.
Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:18:26 GMT
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gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak) wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7. It is an ATAPI cd-rom with standard
> IDE controller from CNF inc. on PCMCIA card.

Your best bet is probably the PAO floppy.

> FreeBSD "sees" it. At boot it says: zp: PCMCIA slot0: CNF CD_M~CD_ROM~M1~

Uh, no.  zp is an Ethernet driver for the 3C589 card.  If it tries to
find your IDE controller, there's for sure something more than a
little wrong with it. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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