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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:25:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: YUEN Nancy Pui <yuenn@ecf.toronto.edu>
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Subject: Re: TEAC CD55a CD ROM
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, YUEN Nancy Pui wrote:

> 	I recently bought FreeBSD 2.1 at Comdex'96.  I just realized that it 
> doesn't support the TEAC CD55a 4X CD ROM, which is the one I have.  Is 
> there a way around this problem?  Do other versions of UNIX support this 
> CD ROM?

I doubt it.  Teac won't release the specs to that drive.  So the best you
can hope for is DOS/Windows and OS/2 support.

I dumped mine for a SCSI Plextor 4x+ and a NCR controller.  Much nicer
setup IMHO.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major