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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!bt!uknet!cf-cm!isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Subject: Re: Support for IDE CD-ROMs? Message-ID: <1994Aug30.205728.15205@cm.cf.ac.uk> Keywords: IDE CD-ROM Sender: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Nntp-Posting-Host: isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <33beim$osg@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <33lv2t$701@gold.interlog.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 20:57:26 +0000 Lines: 20 In article <33lv2t$701@gold.interlog.com>, Jody <jody@interlog.com> wrote: >In article <33beim$osg@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, >Jonathan Sturges <sturges@dustdevil.cs.odu.edu> wrote: >>Hiya, >>I was considering buying a CD-ROM soon, and like the idea of getting an >>AT-BUS (IDE) CD-ROM drive that I can just connect to my existing HD >>controller. > >Hmmm. Well, for starters... last I checked, there was no such thing as >in IDE CD-ROM. There are plenty of proprietary-interface CD-ROMs made by Check again. NEC produce IDE CDROM's. As yet there's no support for them although Linux ahs a beta driver. If anyone know how to get programming docs from NEC then please let me knoe because I happen to have one that just sitting tehre for the moment. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK