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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt
From: wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: Re: CDROM support
Message-ID: <1993Dec30.004823.16658@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
References: <CIs389.H0B@mcnnet.mi.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 00:48:23 GMT

From article <CIs389.H0B@mcnnet.mi.org>, by steve@mcnnet.mi.org (Steven J. Corso):
>>>>I would also like to know the answer to that question.  Does freebsd offer
>>>>any additional support for CDROMs or other SCSI cards?
>>
>>>[FreeBSD] supports the Mitsumi CDROM driver/controller combo
> 
> Ok..Does NetBSD also support the Mitsumi CDROM?

Yes, NetBSD-current supports the Mitsumi. In fact, I had the code running under
386bsd0.1+patchkits. The NetBSD-current code didn't find my CD drive, so I
replaced the probe() code with an older version that did work. The driver
doesn't use interrupts, and is a bit slow. Thanks to the authors, Holger
Veigt and ?? (sorry!) for writing it. An interrupt-driven one would be nice!

	Warren Toomey

P.S I'm staying apolitical. A friend here will be installing FreeBSD and we
plan to compare our systems.