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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Request for ALPHA test (mcd driver)
Message-ID: <1993Jul5.074713.26306@gmd.de>
Keywords: Mitsumi, mcd, cdrom
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
Nntp-Posting-Host: mururoa
Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 07:47:13 GMT
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This is a request for ALPHA test for the Mitsumi-CDROM driver
for 386bsd-0.1 pk-0.2.4 and related systems. This driver is
intended to work with LU0005S CDROM drives with an own controller
card (16bit tested, 8bit unknown).
Warning:
This is ALPHA code, which probably may crash you system and/or
destroy data on your disks. So if you are afraid, better wait
for the final release. Don't flame us if this code does any harm.
You have been warned.
If this message didn't make you tremble, get the current alpha version
from one of the following archives.
Depending on whether we find bugs or make improvements, the archives will
be updated. If the encoded version information differs from the below,
you likely have a newer version in the archives.
The current version is mcd-0.1.0-ALPHA-050793.tar.Z
| | | +-+-+ +--+-+
| | | | |
| | | | +--- The version date DDMMYY
| | | +---------- You know what this means
| | +-------------- The version of this driver
+-+---------------- The OS version: 386bsd-0.1
and can be obtained from
ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/mcd/mcd-0.1.0-ALPHA-050793.tar.Z
bsd386.first.gmd.de:~veit/mcd-0.1.0-ALPHA-050793.tar.Z
(no ANON FTP, login with guest, password guest, and
then cd ~veit)
bsd.coe.montana.edu:/upload/mcd-0.1.0-ALPHA-050793.tar.Z
(not readable, enter the correct filename "blind")
agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/mcd-0.1.0-ALPHA-050793.tar.Z
(not readable, enter the correct filename "blind")
The file will unpack into a directory mcd/*. Read the instructions in
mcd/README to install.
If you find any bugs, or have improvements, comments, suggestions,
send mail to
Holger.Veit@gmd.de
This driver was a collaborative work of me (Holger, data part) and
Brian Moore (mooreb@fac.com, audio part).
Have fun
Holger Veit
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