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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.bluesky.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!swrinde!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!runner!ferovick From: ferovick@runner (David C Ferovick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Panasonic CD-ROM DRIVERS Date: 13 Jun 1995 02:27:01 GMT Organization: The Unversity of Texas at San Antonio Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3rit1l$1l@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> References: <3rcebh$kli@loki.atcon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: runner.jpl.utsa.edu In article <3rcebh$kli@loki.atcon.com> pryan@warp.atcon.com (Patrick Ryan) writes: >Hello, and good day, i'm trying to install freeBSD 2.0r off of a >panasonic cd-rom, i think it is the 563 version, but it is a gerneric >style, that uses its own card...and of cource IT WON'T RUN with out >proper drivers....! Can anyone help me with this, is there a driveer out >there that i can recompile the Kernal, with it..! > >Thanks, > >Patrick Ryan >email... pryan@warp.atcon.com > I have patched the matcd driver to work with (some) of these types of drives, and I have sent the patches to the driver author. Hopefully, he will put them into -current, but I have no idea when (or if) he will actually do it. If you look at the matcd.c driver and get his email address, perhaps you could ask him for a copy of the patches. So far, he has been unresponsive to most of my emails lately, but that was probably due to the amount of work that the release of 2.0.5 put on him (I have seen his name on several modules) The patches are fairly simple, and I tried to make them work fairly generically, but there is no guarantee they will actually work on your system. I tried to come up with a method that would work on every card, but since I have very little information on my drive or controller, most of it was based on guesswork, and most of the people I could think of that could help me fix the driver were either unresponsive or unwilling to help. Don't ask me why...