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From: delozier@mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: CDU-33 CD-ROM driver?
Date: 14 Dec 1994 21:01:18 GMT
Organization: Kent State University
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>
>Greg Delozier <delozier@mcs.kent.edu> wrote:
>>I have a CDU-33 (33a?) CDROM drive, and I'd like to use FreeBSD. 
>
>IF you can get the programming information, it shouldn't be that
>difficult to program a driver for them, given your experience level.

Well, I may try to do this. Any pointers to the drive info, or to the
Linux driver code?
>
>I attempted to reverse engineer it using the Linux driver, but it was
>taking more time than it was worth to me and I gave up.  And now, I
>no longer have access to the hardware.

If you have something partially completed, I'd like to see it...

Thanks,
-greg