From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 24 03:28:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA26244 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 03:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp13.portal.net.au [202.12.71.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA26237 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 03:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00245; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:21:16 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711240051.LAA00245@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: Ken Key , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony PRD650-WM and 2.2.5-STABLE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:50:11 PDT." <199711222150.OAA19106@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:21:15 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm about ready to wipe and load Win95 (but it won't stay long! :-) > > just so I can test the darn player to make sure the drive isn't toast. > > Ahh, you haven't initialized it under Win95? Unfortunately, I couldn't > get it to work at all until *after* I used under Win95. Then, it seemed > to work fine from that point on, even after power-cycling and has worked > since. Maybe the Win95 driver did something to the card/CD player to > make it work fine, but it was required for my So y CD650. Perhaps it has a soft-settable CIS, and has to be initialised first? Many of the "generic" PCCARD interface chipsets have their CIS in an external EEPROM, allowing them to be personalised for a given vendor. Some vendors may decide to wait until the user gets the card before actually writing this information. Just a guess... mike