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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD suport for Mitsumi CD-ROM drive?
In-Reply-To: kaxiras@falcons.cs.wisc.edu's message of 5 Sep 93 02: 06:08 GMT
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>I heard FreeBSD is going to be out on CD-ROM. 
>Can I install it using a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive or do I need 
>a SCSI drive ?

You need a SCSI drive.  I mention this in the latest version of the
release notes.

>Also, is there going to be support for the inexpesnsive ADAPTEC 1520/1522 ?

I've never used one, but I don't believe it will work unless it's
register compatable with the higher-end 154x series (and I don't
think this is the case).

Sorry!  For what it's worth, all this is the case with NetBSD as well.
We're both waiting on someone to donate some decent non-SCSI CDROM
drivers (I don't know about 1522 support, however).

				Jordan
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Jordan Hubbard  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie