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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Richard Scranton <scrantr@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Creative CDROM Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 01:07:22 -0400 Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus, Ohio Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31F9A40A.15FB7483@ix.netcom.com> References: <4sqm58$4th@stratus.skypoint.net> <4src2g$nh@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: col-oh3-18.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Jul 27 12:26:41 AM CDT 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) > > I have just freed up a Creative Labs 2X CDROM drive. I cannot find out > > how to gen this device to work with FreeBSD. This is the drive that can > > connect either to the Soundblaster card, or it's own interface. Can > > someone help me configure my kernel to support this device? > short. > These CD-ROM drives have been sold under the Panasonic (which is a trade > name for Matsushita), Creative Labs (omniCD) and Reveal names, and have > been included in computers made by Tandy, AST, Packard Bell and many oth- > ers. > Be aware that Creative has also recently released a 2X package containing the familiar 1830 interface, but a drive manufactured by Funai (CCR 2.00) that unfortunately does not work with the driver intended for the Panasonic drive. I found this out when trying to connect one to a Warp box. Creative released a different driver, which has it own set of unique problems - chiefly, bad address determination at boot time. Richard