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From: kmahan@toaster.Utah.univel.COM (Kurt Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Device Driver for Philips LMS-CM206 CD-ROM (repost)
Date: 4 Feb 1994 22:09:49 GMT
Organization: Univel
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Sender: kmahan@toaster (Kurt Mahan)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2iuh3d$a96@bantu.provo.novell.com>
References: <1994Feb3.201321.11419@msd.measurex.com>
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Keywords: CD-ROM, Driver

In article <1994Feb3.201321.11419@msd.measurex.com>, bobml@mxmsd.msd.measurex.com (Bob LaGesse) writes:
|> 
|> I'm about ready to spend money on another new toy, this time a CD-ROM drive.
|> 
|> I've done some preliminary research and the Philips LMS-CM206 CD-ROM drive 
|> appears to be a good value (~$200.00, double-speed) but unfortunately, 
|> it has a proprietary AT-BUS card.  According to the Philips computer bulletin 
|> board there's a company called Free S/W Associates(?) which has a Unix device
|> driver available for it.  Their phone number is 011-49-69-634588 which I 
|> believe is in Germany.  Does anyone know anything about them?
|> Do they have an Internet address and if so could someone please give it to me?
|> Better yet, maybe they'll see this message and reply to me directly 8^)!

There IS a LMSI CM-205 driver in UnixWare 1.1...  I wonder if the two drivers are
compatible?  (don't ask me -- I only tested with the cm-205...)

|> 
|> As always, any assistance is greatly appreciated.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Bob LaGesse
|> 
|> P.S.  The reason I posted to the groups above is that the CD-ROM will be 
|>       running on both Free-BSD and UnixWare.  If it's only available on 
|>       one O.S. platform and I can get the sources, I would be willing to 
|>       do some driver hacking to get it ported to the other platform.
|> 
|> P.P.S. Please reply to me directly via E-Mail as our Usenet link has been 
|>        a little bit erratic lately.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Bob LaGesse, Senior Engineer		    E-mail: bobml@msd.measurex.com
|> Measurex/Management Systems Division	    Voice: (513) 595-8909
|> 1280 Kemper Meadow Drive		    Fax: (513) 825-5393
|> Cincinnati, Ohio 45240, USA
|> 
|> 

These are my own words and not necessarily those of Novell.

Kurt Mahan
kurt_mahan@novell.com