Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:53:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mike G." <mike_garcia_m3@yahoo.com> To: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM Message-ID: <20010711015357.32257.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <009b01c109ab$4946d140$3de91e3e@mark2>
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thank you Mark. Its pretty new since I just bought this machine in December. It is a 48X. Do you think this will be okay? Mike --- Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm really wanting to upgrade from windows to FreeBSD and am > > going through the supported hardware section. I have a > Mitsumi > > FX4831 CD-ROM and am curious if this is supported by > FreeBSD. > > > > The Supported Hardware section of the FreeBSD Handbook says, > > > > " Unmaintained drivers, which might or might not work for > your > > hardware: > > Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight) > > mcd - Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) " > > > > So I'm hoping that I can perform the install because I'll > need > > the cdrom in order to install from my FreeBSD cd's. Are > there > > any issues with Mitsumi Cd-rom's that I should be aware of? > > Unless it is a VERY old CDROM drive (i.e. pre-quad speed days, > you know the > ones that needed to plug into a sound card or a separate > interface card, > rather than the motherboard IDE ports), it will work fine as a > standard > ATAPI IDE CDROM. > > I believe the mcd driver is for one of these old interface > cards, used with > I presume Mitsumi drives, way back whenever. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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