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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:59:52 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        "J.R." <jr@thunderstorm.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proprietary interface
Message-ID:  <19980317165952.53202@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <350EC2E2.5925@thunderstorm.net>; from J.R. on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:37:22AM -0800
References:  <350EC2E2.5925@thunderstorm.net>

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This is the wrong mailing list, probably.  Questions should go to
'questions@freebsd.org' :-)

On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:37:22AM -0800, J.R. wrote:
> Handbook: (Mitsumi (all models) proprietary interface (mcd))
> 
> Hello,
> 	I just recently bought the FreeBsd book from Walnut CDROM
> and I think you guys are doing a great job. I'm going to buy a CDROM
> specifically recognized by Freebsd and my question is, what is meant by
> "proprietary interface". Does this mean that a seperate card also come
> with the CDROM? I'm going to get a Mitsumi 16X drive today.

That means a separate card, yes.

I don't know if Mitsumi still creates special interfaces; I thought
everybody had switched to IDE and SCSI.  I'd recommend going with a
SCSI CD-ROM if you can/want to afford it, and an IDE otherwise.

Eivind.


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