> Has anyone had any luck using a CD-ROM drive with MacBSD?

I did at one time.  I haven't tried it in a long time, though...
A lot of stuff has changed since then, so I'm not too surprised
to hear that it's got problems :-(  I'll try to look at it when
I get back from turkey-day festivities.

> First of all, what's the difference between cd0a and cd0d?  SunOS just
> has /dev/sr0.  Why the partition syntax?

I think that this is a holdover from hard disk partitioning.  I think
that only cd0a is valid, but some things might need cd0d.  Not sure,
though.  I'll look into it, too.

-allen

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