From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 1:54:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gidgate.gid.co.uk [193.123.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AA215228 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA27087; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:53:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990715095305.007b4490@192.168.255.1> X-Sender: rbmail@192.168.255.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:53:05 +0100 To: John-Mark Gurney From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: matcd on an SB16 Cc: Mike Smith , Mark Newton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990715010517.21550@hydrogen.fircrest.net> References: <199907150750.AAA01206@dingo.cdrom.com> <199907090328.MAA08098@gizmo.internode.com.au> <199907150750.AAA01206@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:05 15/07/99 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: >> > Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone >> > have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? >> >> It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly, there are three >> different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16; one is the >> Matsushita drive, there's also a Mutsumi interface (I don't think we >> support it) and a Sony interface (also, I believe, unsupported). > >actually, only certain drives are supported on the interfaces... this >is from -current's LINT: ># for the Sony CDU31/33A CDROM >device scd0 at isa? port 0x230 ># matcd: Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM ># for the SoundBlaster 16 multicd - up to 4 devices >controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 ># mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM >device mcd0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 > >so, we support all three different interfaces, but the support is >quite weak... I'm not even sure if these even work anymore, do >people have some hardware they run tests on these interfaces? I have an mcd (with a Mitsumi controller, not SB16) on a spammable box, it worked last time I tried (2.2.8R). [But that wasn't the original question.] -- Bob Bishop +44 118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 118 989 4254 (0800-1800 UK) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message