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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!newsdist.tc.umn.edu!uum1!newsserver!mark From: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com (Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer) Subject: Re: CD-ROM support in FreeBSD/NetBSD ? Sender: usenet@newsserver.aggregate.com (Usenet News Administrative Account) Message-ID: <MARK.94Jul14133528@jupiter.aggregate.com> In-Reply-To: itchris@dale.ucdavis.edu's message of Wed, 13 Jul 1994 18:48:35 GMT Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 18:35:27 GMT References: <1994Jul13.124843.28047@btcs.bt.co.uk> <Csw6wz.n4H@ucdavis.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: jupiter.aggregate.com Organization: Aggregate Computing, Inc. Lines: 12 : 2 IDE drives so I will likely just buy a cheap CD-ROM drive with : it's own proprietary 8-bit SCSI interface). Ehhh...there are some nice sound boards with real SCSI interfaces. Then you can just by a SCSI CD-ROM from any number of sources. The Future Domain boards have a SCSI-1 chip that may be supported, I don't remember. The "SoundBlaster SCSI-2" has an AIC-6360 chip with real SCSI-2 support. I use this and get slightly better performance on this controller than my (ISA non-buffered) IDE controller. -Mark