From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 05:17:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA11247 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 05:17:28 -0700 Received: from zap.zap.qc.ca (zap.zap.qc.ca [198.168.127.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA11241 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 05:17:22 -0700 Received: (from fortin@localhost) by zap.zap.qc.ca (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA10740; Tue, 9 May 1995 08:14:45 -0400 From: Denis Fortin Message-Id: <199505091214.IAA10740@zap.zap.qc.ca> Subject: Re: Using walnut creek CD with Mitsumi quad-speed CD ROM To: mike@networx.ie (Michael Ryan) Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 08:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Ryan" at May 9, 95 11:06:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 709 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am using a Gateway-2000 60 Mhz. Pentium machine with a Mitsumi > quad-speed CD Rom (Device driver version 1.10). When I try and > boot BSD from CD, The MCD0 (Mitsumi CD) device doesn't detect > presence of Cd-Rom. The 4x speed Mitsumi doesn't use the proprietary interface that the Mitsumi 1x and 2x CDROMs used. It is an "IDE CDROM", hence the MCD0 device will not work with it. It is my understanding that FreeBSD will soon support them (in 2.0.5 or 2.1?) but others from the list are in a better position than I am to confirm this. -- Denis Fortin fortin@acm.org DMR Group Inc, (514) 877-3301 These opinions are my own