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From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: What's wrong with this ATAPI setup?
Date: 1 Apr 1997 15:55:01 -0800
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> >After doing several SCSI installations with no problem, I've decided
> >to do an EIDE/ATAPI installation from the 2.1.7 CD-ROM.  It's a
> >low-traffic machine (or so it's been planned) so not having SCSI
> >shouldn't be much of an impediment.
> >Anyway, I made a boot floppy and booted off of it, but the ATAPI
> >CD-ROM drive isn't detected.  An EIDE drive is on wd0 and the CD-ROM
> >drive is on wd1, but wcd never gets seen.  The CD-ROM drive works fine
> >under MS-DOS.  I've tried setting it to both master and slave.  The
> >drive is an NEC 273, apparently.  That's what it says during bootup.
> 
> I don't have a solution, but I've run into this problem twice. The
> 2.1.x documentation says that you need to use a different file to
> create the boot disk (or run a different .exe if you are installing
> from MS-DOS) if you are using an ATAPI CD-ROM. However, those files
> do not seem to exist on my 2.1.5 CD-ROM. 

There's no seperate ATAPI boot floppy on either 2.1.7 or 2.2.1, either.

After recompiling the kernel, what should our fstab entry be?
Is this correct?

/dev/wcd0c	/cdrom	cd9960	ro	0	0

?