From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 10:56:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA20652 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:56:18 -0700 Received: from nak.berkeley.edu (nak.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.136.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA20646 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:56:16 -0700 Received: from olac.Berkeley.EDU by nak.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/1.40) id KAA29225; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:56:11 -0700 Received: by olac.Berkeley.EDU (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03900; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:53:59 +0800 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 10:53:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erik A. Pearson" X-Sender: epearson@olac To: Sean Kelly Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 & mitsumi lu002 In-Reply-To: <9505091733.AA07796@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1011 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean, On Tue, 9 May 1995, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik A Pearson writes: > > Erik> [ ... about problems with Mitsumi I/F CD-ROM ... ] > > The Mitsumi I/F driver in 2.0 doesn't work quite right with a number > of Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. I and several others have experienced > problems with strange timeouts, complaints that there's no CD in the > drive, and other frustrating what-not. We can read some amount of > data and then without warning the fool thing gets confused; unmounting > and remounting sometimes fixes it. > > Using the mcd.c and mcdreg.h files from one of the later snaps in the > 2.0 kernel fixed the problem for me. If you want, I can make a > boot.flp available with a 2.0 kernel and newer Mitsumi driver in it > and you can try installing from that. That would be fantastic! If you could let me know when it is available -- thanks. > > Of course, I could've totally misinterpreted the problem. I think not! Thanks, Erik Pearson.