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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Mitsumi Double-Speed Twice as reluctant
Date: 21 Feb 1994 17:57:06 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2k0qvn$bud@gondor.sdsu.edu>,
Chuck Konopka <ckonopka@ucssun1.sdsu.edu> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>	I am trying to install 4.3BSD from a Mitsumi FX001D Double-Speed
>CD-ROM drive with little success.  I get the basic files onto my IDE drive
>by copying the appropriate floppy images, but I can't get the system to
>recognize the ROM drive.

Hmm, I find it *very* difficult to belive that you are intalling 4.3 BSD
on a PC, since 4.3 NEVER ran (publically anyway) on a x86 machine.

Now, you may be running FreeBSD, NetBSD, or 386BSD on your box, but that's
another story.

>I would think that this drive would be supported
>since it's popular (i.e. cheap and fast) but no luck.  Yea, yea, I know, it's
>an elementary question and should therefore be in a FAQ somewhere, but I can't
>find a reference to the _double-speed_ variant of the Mitsumi drive.

First of all, tell us what OS your installing and we'll all be in the know.


Nate
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