From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 22 14:20:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA03426 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA03309 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02638; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:19:37 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199712222219.QAA02638@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: BackPack CDrom? In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "Dec 22, 97 03:04:19 pm" To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:19:31 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Anyone ever use of of these? Do we support it? Is there something in the > kernel config that I have to setup to enable it? > > Its a CDrom that hangs off the parallel port, put out by Microsolutions? > > Thanks... > > > I've tried writing a driver for a custom OS in the past... Not only is each model's interface completely different (i.e. the 2x and 4x have different interfaces, and the 6x is even weirder, etc...) but it's really really timing sensitive, making any attempt to program the beast to be a big pain. The 6x was the fastest drive out when I stopped even trying, so things may have changed since then. As far as I know, there's no support anywhere for these. Kevin