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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rwatson From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: matcd0 -- support for caddy version? Date: 22 Jun 1995 12:47:55 GMT Organization: The Star-Lit BBS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3sbopr$1s3@clarknet.clark.net> References: <3s00ca$h3h@clarknet.clark.net> <DAJKxK.CJs@nemesis.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Frank Durda IV (uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org) wrote: : [0]Robert Watson (rwatson@clark.net) wrote: : [0]I note in the release notes of matcd it says that there is no support for : [0]the caddy version of the Matushita CDROM drive on SB cards -- is there : [0]any hope of such support someday, or do I get a new CDROM drive? ;) : I wasn't planning on it. The command set is different on the 522/523 : vs the 562/563 drives. That is about all I know. I have one of the caddy : drives but don't even have DOS drivers I could use on it to find out what : the command set is. I know exactly one command that the 522/523 : accepts, that can be used to tell the difference between it and the : 562/563 drives, but that is where the information ends. Would access to a DOS driver for the CD-ROM make life any easier, or is it a lost cause at this point? When matcd0 is probed, the cd spins up, btw.. Which is why I was surprised at first that my cd couldn't be accessed (before reading the appropriate man pages..) Thanks for your work on the other drives -- I guess I'll get a new cd-rom drive with my new computer instead of bringing the old one with me (probably needed to do that anyway--this one is single speed.. although I only ever use it for intermittant data access anyway, so who cares, right? ;). -- Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.