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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Settings for Mitsumi/Tandy CD-ROM?
Date: 30 Apr 94 06:02:02 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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I was given an old Tandy CD-ROM drive. The controller for this drive
has Mitsumi printed on it in small letters on a part on the card. So,
I decided to see if it would work with the Mitsumi CD-ROM driver in
NetBSD-current. To my utter amazement, it read an Ultrix
documentation CD with no problems.
However, when autoconfig probes it on bootup, I get this:
mcd0: timeout in getreply
mcd0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x303 irq 3
Then, if I try to run workman on it to play an audio CD, I get kernel
messages like this:
Apr 30 00:11:59 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: timeout in getstat
Apr 30 00:11:59 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: timeout in getreply
Apr 30 00:11:59 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: timeout in getstat
Apr 30 00:12:00 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: timeout in getreply
Apr 30 00:12:00 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: timeout in getstat
Apr 30 00:12:00 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: setting mode to 5
Apr 30 00:12:00 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: setting mode to 5
Apr 30 00:12:00 MindBender /netbsd: mcd0: setting mode to 1
And, no matter what, workman thinks the drive is empty.
Like I said, even though I get these problems under specified
conditions, it reads an Ultrix CD-ROM without a single problem.
I have two questions: 1) Does anyone familiar with the mcd driver know
of anything special I'm going to have to do to get workman running? 2)
Since this drive was given to me, I have no documentation -- can
anyone email me the switch and jumper settings for their Tandy and/or
Mitsumi CD-ROM drive? If it makes any difference, mine's just an
8-bit controller board.
Thanks for any clues you can send my way.
--Michael
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