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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sony CD-ROM
Date: 28 Nov 1995 17:37:26 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <49fhcm$pq1@helena.MT.net>
References: <490tcu$9jj@news1.tacoma.net>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <490tcu$9jj@news1.tacoma.net>,
Steve M. Spiller <steve@microdot.com> wrote:
>In the release notes on the freebsd web-server, it states that for the
>new 2.1.0 release :
>
>(scd)   Sony proprietary interface (all models)
>
>Well, I have a Sony CDU-535 and can't get it to work.

That's because the CDU-535 doesn't use Sony's proprietary interface, but
instead the (somewhat less proprietary) EIDE interface.

There is some 'alpha' support for EIDE CD-ROM's available in the eide
boot floppy, but I have no experience with it so I can't tell you how to
use it.


Nate
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