From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 18:31:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28448 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (root@mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28435 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id UAA01087; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:31:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199601220231.UAA01087@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: Cd-Rom Compatibility ??'s To: tparker@greenapple.com (Tim Parker) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:31:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601212140.QAA27598@core.greenapple.com> from "Tim Parker" at Jan 21, 96 04:40:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Tim Parker wrote: > > Hello, > > I hope I chose the correct list for this question. I am trying to install > FreeBSD 2.0.5 to my machine, The problem that I am having is my CD-Rom > drive, it is a Wearnes Tech. "Beethoven" CDD-110 it runs off of a > proprietary interface card. Is it possible to get the CD to work with > 2.0.5?? Thanks for any help anyone can give me. I also have one of those CD-ROM drives. Last summer I left a message on their support BBS asking about getting programming info for the drive and told them I wanted them to develop a FreeBSD driver for the drive, and they basically said "no way, but we will have a driver for xxx soon". "xxx" being something I had never heard of and was totally unrelated to any type of UNIX in any way. They stated that the programming interface was proprietary and they would not release it. Now, if someone can get me the programming info for this drive, I'll be more than happy to work on a driver, since I really would like to be able to use it under FreeBSD. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"