From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 23:17:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA21733 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wormhole (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA21728 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: "Roland Jay Roberts" To: "babel@cais.com" , "Doug White" , "dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 02:17:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Roland Jay Roberts" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's Registered PMMail 1.5 Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM 273 IDE Compatibility Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:29:59 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: >On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 babel@cais.com wrote: > >> Have Pent PC with all IDE and EIDE periferals. Will I be abel to install freeBSD >> using your cd_rom. Read in your web page that Mitsumi driver is experimental. >> What is your read on this? > >There is a difference between the Mitsumi device and a modern Mitsumi >drive that uses ATAPI/IDE. While I can't comment on the ATAPI/IDE Mitsumi drives, I will say that the older Mitsumi devices (FX01 on a proprietary interface, for instance) work just fine. There doesn't seem to be anything that *doesn't* support them. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5