From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 18:46:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A7E37B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr305-bh2.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.233.61]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA15091; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:46:23 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <009b01c109ab$4946d140$3de91e3e@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Mike G." , References: <20010711014221.29822.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:46:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 > 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