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Date:      Tue, 9 May 1995 10:53:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Erik A. Pearson" <epearson@olac.berkeley.edu>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.0 & mitsumi lu002
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.950509105020.3861A-100000@olac>
In-Reply-To: <9505091733.AA07796@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov>

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Sean,

On Tue, 9 May 1995, Sean Kelly wrote:

> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik A Pearson <epearson@olac.berkeley.edu> writes:
> 
>     Erik> [ ... about problems with Mitsumi I/F CD-ROM ... ]
> 
> The Mitsumi I/F driver in 2.0 doesn't work quite right with a number
> of Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.  I and several others have experienced
> problems with strange timeouts, complaints that there's no CD in the
> drive, and other frustrating what-not.  We can read some amount of
> data and then without warning the fool thing gets confused; unmounting
> and remounting sometimes fixes it.
> 
> Using the mcd.c and mcdreg.h files from one of the later snaps in the
> 2.0 kernel fixed the problem for me.  If you want, I can make a
> boot.flp available with a 2.0 kernel and newer Mitsumi driver in it
> and you can try installing from that.

That would be fantastic! If you could let me know when it is available -- 
thanks.

> 
> Of course, I could've totally misinterpreted the problem.

I think not!

Thanks,

Erik Pearson.




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