From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 14:23:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05D016A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F9343D48 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mine.nu) Received: from catseye.biscuit.boo ([154.5.85.228]) by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.netSMTP <20040412212319.KXIZ27670.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@catseye.biscuit.boo>; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:23:19 -0600 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:29:46 -0700 From: Chris Pressey To: Marc "UBM" Bocklet Message-Id: <20040412142946.33060de9.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040412170203.320006bb.ubm@u-boot-man.de> References: <20040412170203.320006bb.ubm@u-boot-man.de> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd-rom drive on parallel port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:23:20 -0000 On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:02:03 +0200 Marc "UBM" Bocklet wrote: > > Ok, I'm posting this one last time in the hope that somebody can at > least tell me: "No, it does not work" :-) > > ---------------------- > > Hiho! :-) > > I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parallel port. It's > working under DOS 6.2 with a special driver but there is no sign of it > in the dmesg or anywhere else under FreeBSD 5.2.1. > > Is this kind of device supported under FreeBSD? > I've checked the man pages and google, but found nothing on the > subject. > > It's not really important to get it to work, I'm mainly curious ;-) > > Thanks in advance. > > Bye > Marc I can't say this with 100% certainty of course, but the unfortunate truth is: no. AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't support anything over the parallel port except printers and PLIP. There's almost no chance of you getting it to work short of writing your own driver for it. Sorry. (Although I suppose there might be a slim chance of being able to access it from some other OS running under FreeBSD in, say, VMWare or Bochs...) -Chris