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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD
Date: 27 Jul 1994 14:18:58 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In article <michaelv.775127085@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

   >(1) From the FAQs, NetBSD does not support the Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, while
   >    FreeBSD does. Will that change for NetBSD 1.0?

   Yes, NetBSD-1.0 uses the same driver as FreeBSD, and supports the
   Mitsumi drive.

Actually, the version in NetBSD is somewhat improved.  Among other
things, it has a prayer of working with multiple drives in a machine;
and it uses a probe methodology which has been known to work, rather
than a compilation of successive kluges.  (Note that I haven't
actually tested it with multiple drives, but there's no way the old
version would work correctly without some changes; it relied on global
variables that were not unique per device.)

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30.
  In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m.