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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft 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 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul27101858@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <michaelv.775127085@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: michaelv@iastate.edu's message of 25 Jul 94 09:04:45 GMT 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.