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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Support for IDE CD-ROMs? Message-ID: <1994Aug27.183715.9012@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <33beim$osg@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <33lv2t$701@gold.interlog.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 18:37:15 GMT Lines: 34 Jody (jody@interlog.com) wrote: [deleted] : Hmmm. Well, for starters... last I checked, there was no such thing as : in IDE CD-ROM. There are plenty of proprietary-interface CD-ROMs made by : such companies as Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony, etc. If you try to plug them : into a standard IDE/ATA controller, you'll find out just how compliant they : are with the IDE specification. }8) Don't try it... I can't guarantee : that it won't have unpredictable and possibly irrepairable results. Well, you must not get out much. ;) I have a NEC CDR-260 double speed IDE cdrom in my G2K system. They've been shipping them for at least 4 months now and probably longer. Freebsd does not currently support them. There is a linux patch file that adds support to linux's IDE device driver. I've looked at it and it isn't all that large a patch. I've been meaning to take a stab at porting this to FreeBSD for about 4 months now :) but just have'nt gotten around to it yet. I don't really have an urgent need for it as I rarely need to access any cd's and when I do, I simply nfs mount it from my DOG system. Not haveing rockridge is a bit of a pain this way though. To be completely honest, I am not tremendously impressed with the IDE cdrom drive. I don't know if it is the DOS device driver or the hardware but it seems to hang the system frequently and does'nt read cd's all that reliably. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------