Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA302 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:02:01 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542/386BSD compatible CD-ROM drives Date: 25 Jan 93 17:59:58 Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 24 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jan25175958@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <19581@smoke.brl.mil> <1993Jan21.173539.8390@prepress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: bob@prepress.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:35:39 GMT >>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:35:39 GMT, bob@prepress.com (Robert Crowe) said: R> In article <19581@smoke.brl.mil> lesh@smoke.brl.mil (Steve Lesh) writes: > > Any recommendations of CD-ROM drives which work with the Adaptec 1542 >under 386BSD 0.1 would be appreciated. (I've already tried one "SCSI" drive >which the Adaptec firmware -3.10- would not recognize -- an NEC CDR-25BJ.) R> I got curious and pulled a toshiba XM-3301b off a sparcstation at work, R> stuck it on my 486 w/ 1542b, and it worked just fine. Note that I have R> installed Jullian's scsi driver -- That probably makes a difference. I have R> not tested it a whole lot, since I didn't have too much time, but it seemed R> to work just fine. I pulled a real live sun cd-rom drive off one of the machines at work and stuck it on my 486 w/ 1542b, that worked fine as well. This was with the standard 0.1 scsi drivers, the only thing I found was that mount would fail the first time but if you tried again the CD would mount ok. -- Brett Lymn -- Brett Lymn