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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question re CD-ROM drives
Date: 17 Aug 1994 23:34:01 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Playing with your mind
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In-reply-to: Glen Matthews's message of Wed, 17 Aug 1994 22:24:22 GMT

In article <17AUG94.18798806.0062@VM.MPG.MCGILL.CA> Glen Matthews <CCGM000@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA> writes:

      I've just acquired the Walnut Creek CD-ROM for FreeBSD, and am a
   little disappointed that the Soundblaster CD-ROM config is not supported
   in FreeBSD. I've seen the comments to the effect that "you get what you
   pay for", etc., and that SCSI is the way to go even if more expensive.
   However, I'm wondering if there is a better rationale for not supporting
   the SB CD-ROM drives. (I certainly am not going out to pickup a SCSI
   cd-rom drive, particularly when I already have an SB drive.)

From what I've heard, there is a driver that works just fine with
these things in NetBSD-1.0 (Beta).

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