Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD Drive
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/22/1997 17:01:18
Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 May 1997, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to read from a Mitsumi CD ROM drive. The FAQ doesn't seem
> > too promising suggesting that there are an awful lot of variants. Still,
> > it seems a shame to admit defeat, and I may well have just forgotten
> > something simple.
> > 
> > In my kernel config (i386):
> > 
> > mcd0	at isa? port 0x170 irq 15	# Mitsumi CD-ROM drives
> > options MCDDEBUG
> 
> Hm, are you sure your drive isn't an ATAPI (IDE) CDROM?

No I am not and you are absolutely right! It is an atapi ide cdrom drive!

> However, NetBSD doesn't support IDE CDROMs yet, although there is a patch
> available to add support. Take a look at the stuff in
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/atapi/


I will take a look,

Thank you,

 Patrick