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From: warelock@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us (Tom Zacharoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: CDROM support
Date: 29 Dec 1993 07:35:33 GMT
Organization: Southwestern College
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Steven J. Corso (steve@mcnnet.mi.org) wrote:
: >jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
: >
: >>>I would also like to know the answer to that question.  Does freebsd offer
: >>>any additional support for CDROMs or other SCSI cards?  I know that Linux
: >>>supports some of the sound card based CDROM interfaces.  Are any of these
: >
: >>We support the Mitsumi CDROM driver/controller combo, but none of the
: >>sound-card based CDROMs currently.  If someone would like to write one
: >>for us.. :-)
: >
: >>				Jordan
: >>--
: >>(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
: >>FreeBSD Core Team, American Liver Association, Hedgehog Breeders Society

: Ok..Does NetBSD also support the Mitsumi CDROM?  I believe that the FAQ
: indicates that none of the the xxxxBSD systems do, unless I misread it.

: Steve@mcnnet.mi.org

This also seems to me to be the case. I have a Mitsumi CD and would 
love to get it running under NetBSD 0.9. I also have a Pro Audio 
Spectrum 16 sound card that I would like to get running. I'm 
wondering if the soundblaster drivers will work with it.