Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM drives?
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@highland.com.au>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1996 10:45:22 
> Any one done any work on getting one of these working with NetBSD?
> I've got one sitting here ....

Take a look at lix.polytechnique.fr:pub/manu; there is an early-stage
driver there.  I've never tested it, but presumably the author has.