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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!yuma!lamar.ColoState.EDU!not-for-mail From: sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Sandy Lam) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for IDE CD-ROMs? Date: 28 Aug 1994 19:43:48 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33regk$43u7@lamar.ColoState.EDU> References: <33beim$osg@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <33lv2t$701@gold.interlog.com> <1994Aug27.183715.9012@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lamar.acns.colostate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Steve Ratliff (stever@csuohio.edu) wrote: : 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. the IDE CD-ROM spec is quite different from the IDE hard drive spec. wait til the IDE ethernet card adapters come out (: