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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Small amount of help needed,,, Please?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:51:15 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.  
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In article <01bc76c9$175546e0$2ef5face@machine>,
Mark <mrstevens@monmouth.com> wrote:
>
>I heard that FreeBSD will not recognize an IDE CD Rom
>drive unless it is set to Master on either controllers.

Actually, the old wives' tale is that the CD-ROM has to be a slave.
Not true.  Mine runs just fine as master on the second controller.

>If this is true, does anyone have any suggestions as what
>I should do?

Just install.  :-)
-- 
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads