From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 11:34:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0545214BF9 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA20104; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA01465; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:31:09 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA06960; Fri, 16 Jul 99 11:31:03 PDT Message-Id: <378F7A67.F4C28EEB@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:31:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Newton Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matcd on an SB16 References: <199907160105.KAA07821@gizmo.internode.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Newton wrote: > > 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 :-/ Uh, no, that's the way it's supposed to be. They support every stupid dongle and widget on the planet, remember? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message