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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 10:53:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: NEC 4xi CDROM - what now?
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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 20-Jan-95 Re: NEC 4xi
CDROM - what now? by Peter Dufault@hda.com 
> As I mentioned to Paul, I found a NEC 4Xi for $299.00 tonight so
> I bought it.  I can read the NEC demo disk on an Adaptec 1542C
> (can't do much, no Windows).  Is anyone out there using any NEC
> CDROM on a 174x without any trouble?  Does anyone know where I can
> find the full spec for the NEC command set on the net?  ftp.nec.com
> is useless.

NEC doesn't put them on the Net.  Supposedly you can find them via their
fastfax service (I forget the # but if you call 800 Information and ask
their tech support and call there they will have it on their voice mail).
Otherwise support@nectech.com will mail you command sets as well.

BTW, as a related NEC thing, does anyone out there have a NEC CDR-200 or
NEC CDR-210 (I think the first is also called the 2Vi, the second is
the OEM model) that works with audio cd player commands?  As far as I
can tell NEC doesn't use the SCSI-2 spec for audio cd player commands,
because the only O/S that can play audio CDs with this drive for me is
MSDOS/Windows using the Adaptec ASPI stuff.  Windows NT, NetBSD, and
FreeBSD all barf on it.

alex