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From: tetsuji@rai.juice.or.jp (Tetsuji Rai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Writing a device driver for CDROM
Keywords: bsd devicedriver cdrom
Message-ID: <1992Jul2.114113.572@rai.juice.or.jp>
Date: 2 Jul 92 11:41:13 GMT
References: <1992Jun20.152106.159@rai.juice.or.jp> <1992Jun27.174240.23913@sinkhole.unf.edu>
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In article <1992Jun27.174240.23913@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
>In article <1992Jun20.152106.159@rai.juice.or.jp> tetsuji@rai.juice.or.jp (Tetsuji Rai) writes:
>>
>>  I'm trying to write a device driver for a CDROM drive(Sony's 7211)
>>on BSD/386.    This unix comes with source files(as you should know), and 
>>I'm writing for AHA1542B which is supported by BSD/386.   
>
>   Are you aware that a CDROM device driver (supports ISO9960 format)
>was posted to alt.sources several months ago?  You can find it on
>wuarchive.wustl.edu in the alt.sources archive area.  Hope this helps.
>
>Steve Hite
>shite@sinkhole.unf.edu


Yes, I have it.   But it is not compatible with the SCSI driver which
comes with BSD/386(it is compatible with the distributed scsi driver).
So I must write by myself....