Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:23:57 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu> To: "Mike G." <mike_garcia_m3@yahoo.com> Cc: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Mitsumi FX4831 CD-ROM Message-ID: <3B4BC6CD.6090100@bowdoin.edu> References: <20010711015357.32257.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 <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 >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ > 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
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