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From: leonard@umsa7.umd.edu (Leonard Nisenoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap CDROM drives for FreeBSD-1.1 ???
Date: 2 Aug 1994 15:48:29 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Keywords: CDROM cheap

datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Datacraft Technology) writes:

>Which cheap CDROM drives work on FreeBSD ? I'm using an Adaptec 1542B for
>my harddrives, so I could use SCSI drives. SCSI drives seem generaly very
>expensive.

>I also heared reports of varying success with Mitsumi drives. Any definitive
>answers ?

>Please respond with accurate model name and manufacturer and if possible 
>also price.

>Regards

>Tibor Sashegyi

I installed FreeBSD 1.1 using the Mitsumi CD-ROM (LU005) without
a single problem.

--Leonard (leonard@umsa7.umd.edu)