Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:34:39 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: IDE CDROM experiences (was: ATAPI Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961124135839.20127A-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <E0vRPev-0003WC-00@rover.village.org>
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Hi, > There is a local store selling used IDE cdroms (4x) for $39 each. At > least I think they are IDE drives. I have two questions: 1) How do I > tell for sure By looking at their usermanual and on the drive's back side where interface and controlling jumper are located If you see goodold IDE connector and 3-pos. jumper with "Master-Slave-CableSelect" -- that's IDE :-) The price seems to be pretty usual for IDE CDROMs even here in Kiev -- dirt cheap. BTW I shold note, that whatever ATAPI driver in 2.2 is, it was giving me just 100% success since approx. June 2.2-SNAP, with just any drives (Sony CDU-55E, Hitachi CDR-7730 are the ones I can reference by model name, but there were also some Creative, Azteh(?), Panasonic ones). All tested configurations were "slave on wdc1". 2.1.6 ATAPI driver isn't so robust, it didn't work in any of the above configurations. :-( Just now I have a SCSI box but with IDE CDROM (Creative CRE-JTB Quad Speed) on wdc0 and 2.1.6-R just doesn't see even wdc controllers, no matter is CDROM a "master" or "slave" device. Can I bring at least 2.2 ATAPI driver to 2.1.6? (didn't get time to try this yet, but interested in the ability). I sholuld also mention that SCSI CDROM drives are now simply dissapearing from PC hardware market. So like this or not -- you won't always get SCSI CDROM even if you sincerely want it. > and 2) would anybody be interested in me picking one up > and mailing it somewhere? > > Warner -- Best, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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