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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!coombs!greg From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price) Subject: I'm a dud...and need help! Message-ID: <greg.717567006@coombs> Keywords: cdrom Lines: 26 Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University Date: 27 Sep 92 04:10:06 GMT This is my confession! I bought a CD-ROM drive (Sound Galaxy CR-522-B with a Panasonic Drive). There is a dos driver (fine), but I wanted to get programming info and the retailer has been unable to get it. The interface is the AT type, ie proprietary. Apparently the drive can be used on Sound Blasters, any way, I want the low level programming info so I could work on a driver for 386BSD, but I appear to be stuck. I have asked for help in alt.cd-rom and a pc group, but got no responses, so I ask two things. 1) Does anyone know how/where I could get programming info I need, or 2) If I could get it swapped for the SCSI version of the panasonic drive what types of scsi controller could/should I get for it. The Adaptec 1542 costs as much as the drive alone! I don't mind working on the drivers for a different type of controller, but I would need info for it (ie the scsi controller and possibly some stuff about the drive, although the scsi should be standard). Is it anticipated more scsi controllers will be supported, etc? There is my case, so please, * * H E L P * * ! Thanks, Greg (greg@coombs.anu.edu.au)