Mirko,

in message <01BBF88B.18C7A3E0@204a.cyberline.fr>
          Mirko VIDOVIC <mirko@cyberline.fr> wrote:

> >Which kernel are you using?
> 8741 ??? or something like this.

I'd like to see that one, must be a great one because it won't be out for the
next two years or so. ;-)
The current one is 4871.

> >What is printed during device probing?
> during boot up, BSD recognize it as an Hitashi ATAPI, so I think it's OK

Which doesn't mean it can do anything sensible with it.

Don't you have a Cumana SCSI controller? Why don't you buy a SCSI CD-ROM drive
then? You'll get rid of all these problems (and will get bad speed, but this
will hopefully be fixed).

> >You should also consider that your drive might simply not be working with
> >RiscBSD. You always have to risk that with ATAPI, that's why I use SCSI
> >exclusively.
> Well, it recognizes it anyway ? That's curious.

I think the possibility for this is still not bad.
Maybe Mark can say more.

MB

P.S.: Can people please stop cc-ing their replies to me? I get them reliably
through the mailing-list, there's no need to send them twice.