From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 17 08:50:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18408 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA18399 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA19149; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:49:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20318; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:49:39 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:49:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710171549.JAA20318@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Brian N. Handy" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a CD-rom! In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Well, I just shopped around Fry's today and found myself a PCCARD-based > cdrom. My laptop supplier just spent two months getting me *another* > printer-port based unit! I was pretty annoyed so I just bought the thing > myself. > > I have a Sony DISCman that comes with the Adaptec SCSI card, $300US. The > scsi card appealed to me is mostly why I went with this particular unit. Are you running the PAO patches? If not, they it won't work (yet) on -current since the patches to the driver aren't complete. Which model Sony? I have one as well, and I was hoping to merge in the Sony patches from PAO into -current to see if it might work. > The downslide is it's not powered through the pccard port, and I'm > waffling on that issue. What's not powered through the port? The CD player? There a *really* good reason for that, mainly battery life. You're box (and mine) don't have the battery *oomph* to power the player for anything other than a short period of time. My Sony has the ability to throw in a rechargable battery pack, and also has a base that you can stick a couple of AA batteries in it as well for 'external' power. Nate