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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!umass.edu!news.oit.umass.edu!asimov.oit.umass.edu!not-for-mail From: gp@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mount external CD-ROM: More Info. Date: 2 Apr 97 12:38:43 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 27 Message-ID: <33425353.0@news.oit.umass.edu> References: <333aa361.0@news.oit.umass.edu> <5hov5i$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: robby.oit.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38292 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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 : : joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) : Thanks for your reply, but I checked the Handbook, FAQ, sample kernels and "man" pages-- sorry to say I don't know what you mean by "PAO floppy". If ignorance is bliss, I must be ecstatic. -Greg