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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!oleane!cam.news.pipex.net!pipex!edi.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.itg.ti.com!usenet From: Doug Glazar <dougg@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: matcd0 -- support for caddy version? Date: 22 Jun 1995 15:14:59 GMT Organization: Information Technology Group, Texas Instruments Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3sc1dj$f9m@dsk92.itg.ti.com> References: <3s00ca$h3h@clarknet.clark.net> <DAJKxK.CJs@nemesis.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dglazar.itg.ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 32bit) To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) 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. > Check out the Linux Panasonic CDROM driver sbpcd.c and sbpcd.h - the 522/523 command set is in the .h file. And a question of my own...I can play audio CDs on my Panasonic 563 drive under FreeBSD - does this mean the driver works completely? Can I mount ANY CDROM (except audio, of course)? I've been trying to mount one that came with a book on UNIX utilities but no luck. Thanks. Doug Glazar