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From: geert@sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Panasonic 52x CDROM support
Date: 12 Sep 1995 17:41:11 GMT
Organization: DFKI (Deutsches Forschungsinstitut f"ur K"unstliche Intelligenz)
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References: <DErqyu.389@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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In article <DErqyu.389@nemesis.lonestar.org>, uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) writes:

:When Matsushita came out with the 562/563 in 1993, they changed the command
:sets, so the two designs are not compatible.   
:
:So, currently there is no support under FreeBSD for the 522/523 drives.
:
If only the command set is different, wouldn't it be easy to change the 562/563 drivers to include 
support for the 522/523 drives? Although they're old, there are a lot of them around, since they 
were included in the original SoundBlaster 'MultiMedia' packages.

Greetings,
  Geert
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