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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!un!pc012 From: pc012@un.seqeb.gov.au ( PAT COLLINS) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Mutsumi support (was Re: CDROM support) Message-ID: <CJI7o5.4At@un.seqeb.gov.au> Organization: SEQEB X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <JKH.93Dec28053347@whisker.lotus.ie> <CIzI2p.C76@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <2gd8rc$gi@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us> <1994Jan07.054524.49510@rchland.ibm.com> <2gvi92$c2f@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 06:36:04 GMT Lines: 56 Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: : In article <1994Jan07.054524.49510@rchland.ibm.com>, John Nistler : <john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: : >I just got the Walnut Creek CD-ROM version of FreeBSD and the kernal on : > the installation floppy just refuses to detect my GenSTAR 3000i(I : > believe mitsumi CD-ROM) drive. Has anybody seen this problem? : The version of the driver in the CD-ROM version has some problems unfortunately : that were just found out. Here's the relavant post. : From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@netport.neosoft.com> : Subject: mitsumi CD-ROM's : To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com : Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 06:05:52 -0600 (CST) : Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com : X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] : Content-Type: text : Content-Length: 440 : Sender: freebsd-questions-owner@freefall.cdrom.com : Precedence: bulk : Hi, : Ok, I've seen enough questions about the Mitsumi to post this. There is : some major brokeness in the 1.0.2 and lower mcd.c probe code. I've got : a patch for this here and Rod will be includeing it in the update (I belive). : If someone needs the new code, it can be located at netport.neosoft.com in : ~pub/misc. I'm going to be working on the interupt and dma code in the : near future (workload is getting bad around here...:(). : Gary : ---- : This code is now going into FreeBSD-current after it's completed. : Nate : -- : nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, : nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's : work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to : home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me OK, But could someone please tell me which model Mitsumi CDROM player is suported by FreeBSD, is it all models, or one model, or what. Does anyone know the part number, is it for example the FX001D. Do the people who wrote the driver know what model drive they were writing for or what. Thankyou. Patrick Collins