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From: henryt@tabor (Henry Tieman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Non SCSI/IDE CDRom Support
Date: 03 Aug 1995 18:43:52 GMT
Organization: Network Computing Devices
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Message-ID: <HENRYT.95Aug3114352@tabor>
References: <3vat6h$n3c@venger.snds.com> <3vkn6e$jdv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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In-reply-to: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de's message of 1 Aug 1995 10:04:30 +0200


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. :)

Mitsumi is not the only propriatary cd supported.  I'm
quite happy using a SoundBlaster w/ Sony CD-ROM.  The
only problem I have had with it was when I installed from
the CD.  You can't have himem or emm386 loaded and start
the kernel from the CD.  Other than that it works great.

henry