> Hi
> 
> I've just bought a 4.3G Quantum Bigfoot for my RiscPC 600, the majority of 
> which I have allocated to RiscBSD.  Unfortunately I cannot see the Cumana 
> double speed CD ROM drive.  It is plugged into the IDE interface that came 
> with the machine, and I am installing from the Datafile's PDCD4.

AFAICR, the Cumana with the dodgy board differs sufficiently from the
ATAPI spec to be unsupported by current kernels. There was a brief murmur
about this some months ago, and someone (Olly?) came forward with one for
'those who can' to write a driver with, but nothing much has been heard
since.

Mine doesn't work either, except from RiscOS, though it does allow the
machine to boot into RiscBSD cleanly.

> problem because I don't relish the prospect of creating 40+ installation 
> floppies, but lack of experience has let me run into a brick wall.  Any help 
> would be greatly appreciated

Create the RiscBSD partitions on your HD using an install floppy as
normal; then copy the sets under RiscOS from the CD to a BSD partition
(chmod o+rwx on the destination directory, first), then point the
installer (/usr/local/sbin/rcm) to the right place, and go for it. 

Best,

Dan.

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