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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!torn!onlink3.onlink.net!pheebs.citytel.net!kwoody From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:40:53 -0800 Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970331153847.18722B-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> References: <5hn1o1$b4b@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br> <5ho851$koc@idiom.com> <5horcu$e40@chronicle.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pheebs.citytel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5horcu$e40@chronicle.concentric.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38153 On 31 Mar 1997, Rick Slater wrote: > > Michael Craft (jsi@idiom.com) wrote: > > : 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. > > Are you sure about that? In the versions I've used, you had to rebuild > the kernel, but once that was done, you had full IDE cdrom support. > > I'm going to order 2.2.x just as soon as Walnut Creek has it available > on cdrom, and I'd sure hate to find out that atapi support is missing. > According to the new docs for 2.2.x the ATAPI support is supposed to be pretty good and supports a great many atapi compliant cd drives. Hit FBSDs web site, has it all there. Keith