Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:39:45 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: davew@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr D Whitehead) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panasonic LF-1000 Message-ID: <199603192309.JAA02622@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <7883.9603191257@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> from "Mr D Whitehead" at Mar 19, 96 12:57:31 pm
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Mr D Whitehead stands accused of saying: > > > > Mike Smith`s reply: > >It's a SCSI CDrom, should work just fine. Have to admit that I've > >never met the "LF-1000"; Panasonic are Matsushita whose part numbers > > for SCSI CDroms have always been in the form CR-5xxB... > > That will teach me to be inexplicit. The Panasonic LF-1000 is a > dual purpose drive taking either a CD or a 650Mbyte rewritable > optical cartridge. Installed on a dos (sorry about swearing) machine > it uses an extra driver in addition to the the usuall aspi drivers. > So back to the original question - anyone know if it will work with > FreeBSD? Depends on how it identifies itself to the system. Why not plug it in and see? It'll probably come up as a type 7(?) which means you'll need the 'od' driver out of -current to talk to it, but then again it may do something even stranger. Try it! > Dave Whitehead -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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