Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:25:12 -0400 From: Daniel Guetzkow <guetzkow@access.digex.net> To: "'mlduke@concentric.net'" <mlduke@concentric.net> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: A Driver, A Revelation Message-ID: <01BDA2CB.95C2E300.guetzkow@access.digex.net>
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For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost..... A driver connects generic commands from the operating system or application to a specific piece of hardware. For instance, the command "Go get file 'foobar.doc' " gets converted into a series of specific CPU instructions that cause electrical activity on the CD ROM's IDE bus that causes that to actually happen intelligently. Drivers know how chips are controlled.... I take it you are looking for Mitsumi drivers for DOS? why not just get 'em from the source? Most hardware companies have posted their drivers, as they don't get rich helping you get a new copy, but they do get bad-mouthed if you can get their hardware to work.. In this case, go look at http://www.mitsumi.com/frmdri.htm or just http://www.mitsumi.com which is how I found it for you. Now if you had said you had a Sony drive, guess where I would have looked???? :-) You can use a search engine like AltaVista to help you find stuff. Sometimes a retailer or a distributor posts it, but the factory can't even be located..... I have found that most $16 3.5" drives are not as reliable as a download.... but they are much cheaper now.... From: Daniel Guetzkow just click here: mailto:guetzkow@access.digex.net On Sunday, June 28, 1998 12:14 PM, mlduke@concentric.net [SMTP:mlduke@concentric.net] wrote: > It just dawned yesterday that I do not really know what a driver _is_. > A little bit of data on a disk. It "comes" with the device, in this case > a Mitsumi CD Rom Drive. Win finally gave up the game. Format & reload > time. Never should have let it go so long. DOS cannot now "see" that > drive. A 12 cent 3.5" corrupted disk prevents reloading. Which holds up > a major web site redesign project--22 items on an order form, auto credit > card system, $20K in art inventory to sell and dead in the water. > > But FBSD can see it. Does anyone know: Is there a way to copy the driver > to /dos and make it work there? Which means to say, any file can be copied > to /dos, but I don't even know what file it would be in the absence of the > absolute path name. > > It came as a revelation, also, that I could even work on > /dos/windows/desktop files in FBSD, but this has come as a real shock. > > Anyone? > > ML Duke > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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