From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 20:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E540C37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from bowdoin.edu ([139.140.133.82]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGAHFO00.13M; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:23:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4BC6CD.6090100@bowdoin.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:23:57 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" Organization: Bowdoin College Networks & Operations User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Netscape6/6.1b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mike G." Cc: Mark Hughes , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM References: <20010711015357.32257.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, If its a 48X drive, the chances are nearly 100% that it is an ATAPI drive, and therefore fully supported. You shoudn't have any issues, good luck with your install. .matt Mike G. wrote: > 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 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message