From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 18: 5:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECE814F92 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07821; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:35:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199907160105.KAA07821@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: matcd on an SB16 To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:35:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: newton@internode.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199907150750.AAA01206@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 15, 99 00:50:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone > > have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? > > It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly, there are three > different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16; one is the > Matsushita drive, there's also a Mutsumi interface (I don't think we > support it) and a Sony interface (also, I believe, unsupported). Ghods, you're going through some old mail! [ and how was DEFCON, btw? :-) ] FWIW, the guy I was talking about embarked on a network install from another machine with a CD-ROM drive and an NFS server; the network install failed for slightly related reasons, having to do with the idea the hardware in this box is generally crap. The disappointing thing is that Linux works on it, though :-/ - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message