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From: gclarkii@NeoSoft.com (Gary Clark II)
Subject: Re: CDROM support
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 04:06:24 GMT
Message-ID: <CIzI2p.C76@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <JKH.93Dec28053347@whisker.lotus.ie> <CIs389.H0B@mcnnet.mi.org> <2frc05$qr9@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us>
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In article <2frc05$qr9@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us> warelock@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us (Tom Zacharoff) writes:
>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.
You should be able to use the standard Mitsumi driver under NetBSD 0.9.
I would suggest ftping to netport.neosoft.com under pub/misc and
getting mitsumi.tar.gz. This will have the latest drivers in it (I'll
put it there right after I get done..:))
Gary
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