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From: scott@Tandem.COM (mueller_scott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Non SCSI/IDE CDRom Support
Date: 3 Aug 1995 23:01:46 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino CA
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In article <3vkn6e$jdv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Mike Nielsen <aadnamn@snds.com> wrote:
>>Is there any plan to support non SCSI and non IDE cdrom drives like (e.g. 
>>Wearnes)?
>
>Aside of the already supported ones (e.g. Mitsumi), none are known by
>now.  Of course, we're open to contributions. :)

Is this the sort of thing where drivers could be snarfed from Linux?  Does
Linux have a Wearnes driver?  My wife has one of those, and I'm hoping someday
to convert her DOS+Windows system to UNIX+Wine...

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Scott Hazen Mueller, Tandem Computers     +1 408 285 5762  scott@tandem.com
   Unix System/Network Administrator, Host-, Post-, News- and Web-Master