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From: Amanda Chou <achou@best.com>
To: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com>
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Subject: Re: CDROM Compatibility
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> I'm looking at buying a new system which is pre-bundled.  The ones I've 
> looked at have some of the newer 6x-10x drives by NEC, Panasonic, Sony, and
> Acer.  Some of the NEC drives are the 4x4 versions (4x, 4-CD changer).
> 
> Does anybody know if any of them are compatible with FreeBSD, or any 
> drivers have been released?  The 2.1-RELEASE version I have (January) 
> doesn't mention any of them on the back cover compatibility list, so I 
> was hoping something had been added in the interim.

I think as far as you're using a SCSI CD-ROM drive, brand shouldn't be a
big issue.

> Mike.
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> 

Amanda