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From: mwalls@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Monty Walls)
Subject: Re: Device Driver for Philips LMS-CM206 CD-ROM
Message-ID: <1994Feb6.053404.29945@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 05:34:04 GMT
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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^)!
>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.
If that fails, check the LINUX archive sites (tsx-11.mit.edu &
sunsite.unc.edu), some one has already done a driver. That would
provide at least a starting point for a SVR4 driver.
>--
>Bob LaGesse, Senior Engineer E-mail: bobml@msd.measurex.com
>Measurex/Management Systems Division Voice: (513) 595-8909
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