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From: burgess@s069.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: CD-ROM support in FreeBSD/NetBSD ?
Date: 13 Jul 1994 17:13:24 -0500
Organization: /etc/orgainzation
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Message-ID: <301ou4$1ef@s069.infonet.net>
References: <1994Jul13.124843.28047@btcs.bt.co.uk> <Csw6wz.n4H@ucdavis.edu>
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In article <Csw6wz.n4H@ucdavis.edu>,
The God of Ice <itchris@dale.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>Andy Duplain (duplain@btcs.bt.co.uk) wrote:
>
>FreeBSD only supports SCSI CDROMs, with one lovely exception:
>The Mitsumi CDROM and interface. I grabbed the mitsumi (double
>speed!) from a trade show for $128, including interface. I must
>say, this drive is a gem.
[stuff deleted]
>It works fantastic for getting your stuff up and running in the
>minimal amount of time.
>
>I've heard reports that the Mitsumi driver is extremely slow, but
>I can't prove or disprove this- all I know is that I'm a happy
>camper.
>
I have modified a cdplayer program that I received from someone so that
it works fairly reliably with CDs (status reporting doesn't work
yet...) and does not require an X terminal to run. It is straight text
and even allows you to do things like play a music CD and then load and
mount a data CD. Send me E-Mail and I will drop you the source. The
code is written to support either the Mitsumi CD-ROM or the SCSI CD-ROM
drives.
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