Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:46:15 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "Mike G." <mike_garcia_m3@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM Message-ID: <009b01c109ab$4946d140$3de91e3e@mark2> References: <20010711014221.29822.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com>
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> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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