From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 17:24:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA23908 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:24:13 -0700 Received: from ibmmail.COM (ibmmail.com [199.171.26.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA23902 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:24:12 -0700 From: auwbcpar@ibmmail.com Message-Id: <199506210024.RAA23902@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from ibmmail by ibmmail.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 2036; Tue, 20 Jun 95 20:24:19 EDT Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:27:40 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: general Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk --- Received from NSW.RICHARP X55041 21-06-95 10.22 -> IBMMAIL.I1466824 IBMMAIL CONNECTION Hi, I have just purchased a copy of the FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM and have a couple of questions about it. 1 - Do you know if anyone is writing or has written a CDROM driver for either a CDROM via a SOUNDBLASTER interface or for a CDROM as another IDE drive (I currently have an IDE hard disk and would like to add a CDROM drive as the second drive, and I know of someone who is doing this with LINUX). 2 - Can you suggest a good source of technical information about FreeDSB, either on the NET or technical manuals that may be available. I would like some documentation about rebuilding the KERNEL and writing device drivers specifically. PS. is it ok to send technical questions here. Any assistance you can give will be appreciated. Paul Richardson Sydney, Australia