Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:49:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a CD-rom! Message-ID: <199710171549.JAA20318@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971016220039.8032C-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971016220039.8032C-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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> Well, I just shopped around Fry's today and found myself a PCCARD-based > cdrom. My laptop supplier just spent two months getting me *another* > printer-port based unit! I was pretty annoyed so I just bought the thing > myself. > > I have a Sony DISCman that comes with the Adaptec SCSI card, $300US. The > scsi card appealed to me is mostly why I went with this particular unit. Are you running the PAO patches? If not, they it won't work (yet) on -current since the patches to the driver aren't complete. Which model Sony? I have one as well, and I was hoping to merge in the Sony patches from PAO into -current to see if it might work. > The downslide is it's not powered through the pccard port, and I'm > waffling on that issue. What's not powered through the port? The CD player? There a *really* good reason for that, mainly battery life. You're box (and mine) don't have the battery *oomph* to power the player for anything other than a short period of time. My Sony has the ability to throw in a rechargable battery pack, and also has a base that you can stick a couple of AA batteries in it as well for 'external' power. Nate
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