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Re: ATAPI CDROM's on NetBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Tue Sep 23 17:32:43 1997
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: Nathan J Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bradley C Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:11:36 EDT."
<199709232011.QAA17296@mary-kay-commandos.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:32:30 EDT
> ATAPI support was merged into NetBSD-current a few weeks ago,
> and from my experience works pretty well. NetBSD-Athena doesn't
> support it, since the latest NetBSD-Athena release is based on
> NetBSD-1.2.
Actually, a couple of months ago, I started hacking on a
plain old 1.2-Athena kernel with Atapi support. It works quite
nicely--I've been able to use my ATAPI CD-ROM drive and my hard disk
under it.
attach pocky
cd /mit/pocky/Public/Atapi
...and look at the files in there. I included the file netbsd,
which is my ATHENAATAPI kernel. The README file explains how to make
the device nodes for your cd rom drive.
The only problem that I've ever found with this kernel is that
it only seems to like the primary IDE port on the systems I've tried it
with. Drives on your secondary IDE port ought to be detected fine by
the standard IDE driver, so you ought to be able to use all your devices
as long as you put your CD-rom drive on the primary IDE port.
Please try it and let me know how it goes! All you should have
to do is replace your netbsd kernel with mine (make sure to back yours
up!) make the device nodes, and reboot. You can then mount the cd rom
drive on /cdrom or wherever.
-Dan
