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From: burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD and CDROM
Date: 7 Mar 1995 21:15:09 -0600
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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Message-ID: <3jj7ft$6mu@cynjut.infonet.net>
References: <3jih0e$69h@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <3jih0e$69h@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>,
Crispin Chapman <turkey@mu.sans.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me exactly _why_ Netbsd doesn't support IDE CDROMS?
>
>frustrated..
Easy.
The bulk of the folks on the core team don't use IDE. They use SCSI.
Those of us that use IDE (not that I'm on the core team, but I have done
some work on the Mitsumi interface) are too cheap to run out and buy a
piece of hardware that isn't supported yet.
In other words, the folks that CAN write the driver have no reason to.
Those folks that have a reason to haven't (at least to date) written
one.
If you mail me your IDE CD-ROM, I will either write the driver and send
your drive back, or send your drive back with a note about what I
couldn't do. Until then, I have better things to do with $200. Like
buy a VGA monitor so that I can run X and rewrite the FAQ into a linked
HTML document.
Of course, it would be easiest if _you_ wrote the driver, or at least
tried to get a start on it. It shouldn't be much different than working
with an IDE hard drive, and the source is right there....
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