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From: "Mike G." <mike_garcia_m3@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM
To: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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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 <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> 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
> 


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