From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 08:13:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA08112 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:13:14 -0800 Received: from ns.dknet.dk (root@ns.dknet.dk [193.88.44.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA08106 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:13:03 -0800 Received: from login.dknet.dk by ns.dknet.dk with SMTP id AA13997 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 22 Mar 1995 17:12:51 +0100 Received: by login.dknet.dk (4.1/SMI-4.1DKnet00) id AA16080; Wed, 22 Mar 95 17:10:12 +0100 From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) Message-Id: <9503221610.AA16080@login.dknet.dk> Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM & SCSI Controller To: digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Mike Digdon) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 17:10:11 MET Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503221421.KAA17401@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>; from "Mike Digdon" at Mar 22, 95 10:21 am X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have a Mitsumi FX400 IDE CD-ROM. At the moment, FreeBSD does not support > this device. My roommate tells me that there is a SCSI card that you can > plug IDE devices into and have them work like SCSI devices, limited only to > IDE transfer rates. Sounds handy, but I doubt it is cost effective.... > My question is, if I should buy one, would I then be able to use my CD-ROM > with FreeBSD? If not, is support for a slaved IDE CD-ROM on the way? Yes support is underway.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time ..