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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!coombs!greg From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: I can't talk to my CD-ROM Date: 2 Apr 93 22:47:46 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 29 Message-ID: <greg.733790866@coombs> References: <1pg6kgINNe0r@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2 koz@beowulf.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Koz Tembekjian-386) writes: >Recently I got a PC with Soundblaster-controlled-cd-rom. >It doesn't work with bsd386, because there is no driver for it. >Does anybody know of any solutions/drivers to get around this problem? Suicide is the only option. I have a PANASONIC/MATSUSHITA NON-scsi CDROM drive, with supplied interface card. The DOS driver is for sound galaxy cards. The NON-scsi CDROM interfaces seem to have standards, but no-one will part with the programming information. I have been hassling PANASONIC/ MATSUSHITA for 6->9 months now and I'm hardly any closer than when I started. The local PANASONIC agent is trying to be helpful, but the factory in Asia (possibly japan?) is no help. I have given the local office detailed descriptions of what I need, but the factory reply saying that they don't understand what I need. If they are capable of designing and building the things I'm sure capable of a straight answer! A while back sound galaxy bought out a programmers kit which gave details on how to program the sound boards, the details for the CDROM weren't included. I have a small driver for DOS, so if anyone wants to reverse engineer the code be my guest. There are a number of people after 386BSD (& other variants) driver. I'm glad I've got that off my chest. The moral of the story is DON'T buy a NON-scsi CDROM drive if you wan't to use it on something other than DOS. Greg PS. Bill, programming one of these would make a good magazine article.