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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: CDROM support Date: 2 Jan 1994 06:41:30 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2g5qaq$ng0@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2966027863.0.p00181@psilink.com> <CIpKtC.AwL@Colorado.EDU> <JKH.93Dec28053347@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <JKH.93Dec28053347@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>I would also like to know the answer to that question. Does freebsd offer >>any additional support for CDROMs or other SCSI cards? I know that Linux >>supports some of the sound card based CDROM interfaces. Are any of these > >We support the Mitsumi CDROM driver/controller combo, but none of the >sound-card based CDROMs currently. If someone would like to write one >for us.. :-) Actually, this is the first I've heard of this -- you gonna post about it to the hackers list? 8-). I was under the (correct me if I am mistaken) impression that the Mitsumi and the SoundBlaster interfaces were identical. I am *NOT* talking about the SoundBlaster SCSI, which wants a CPU-intensive driver to push its bits for it, unlike decent, God-fearing SCSI cards that will do bus-mastering DMA for you. My impression is that it would be easier to implement drivers for some of the crummy older SCSI cards than it would for the SoundBlaster SCSI. Anyway, for the non-SCSI SoundBlaster, it may mean that you can make it work by getting the Mitsumi driver and hacking the probe a little. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.