Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:57:40 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA IDE cdrom drive success. Message-ID: <19990827145740.B15180@pir.net>
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I bought a Microtech MicroCD IDE/pcmcia cdrom drive; http://www.microtech-pc.com/products_microcd.shtml Doesn't need an external power supply, but gives you one anyway to charge the internal batteries that get used if it can't get enough pcmcia power), 24X, kinda cute and nice and small. You can buy a USB cable for it ($80 extra) so under windows you could use it as a USB cdrom drive and still use the pcmcia for network ... http://www.microtech-pc.com/products_smartusb.shtml Eventually the BSD USB support might let it do that too :) Installed it under doze 98 with the normal amount of doze-pain and checked it worked. My Sony won't boot from it, but then I didn't really expect it to. (for other vaio owners with the same problem, sony have a program on their support site to create a boot disk to allow you to use a 3rd party external cdrom drive with their recovery CD) After some fiddling with pccard.conf and my kernel, and got it working with freebsd. It does audio (line out socket to line in on the laptop), it appears just like a normal IDE cdrom drive. Mounted a couple of rock ridge and joliet CDs with it, no problems, ejected it with cdcontrol ... So, for all those people wanting a supported pcmcia IDE cdrom drive, go buy one of these, I like it :) I got mine from; http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?sku=10217965 $154.95, shipped well packed and promptly. ===================================================================== controller wdc2 at isa? disable port ? bio irq ? device acd0 at wdc2 drive 0 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device acd0 #IDE CD-ROM ===================================================================== ===================================================================== card "SHUTTLE TECHNOLOGY LTD." "PCCARD-IDE/ATAPI Adapter" config 0x03 "wdc2" any insert logger -s MicroCD inserted remove logger -s MicroCD removed ===================================================================== ===================================================================== Card inserted, slot 0 Aug 27 14:36:05 disapp pccardd[58]: Card "SHUTTLE TECHNOLOGY LTD."("PCCARD-IDE/ATAPI Adapter") [(null)] [(null)] matched "SHUTTLE TECHNOLOGY LTD." ("PCCARD-IDE/ATAPI Adapter") [(null)] [(null)] card0: assign wdc2 iobase 0x150 irq 10 wdc2: unit 0 (atapi): <CD-224E/1.0A>, removable, accel, ovlap, dma, iordis acd0: drive speed 4134KB/sec, 512KB cache acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA acd0: Audio: play, 256 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked ===================================================================== P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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