Subject: Re: CD-ROM for NetBSD/pmax
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/26/1997 09:48:29
On Mon, 26 May 1997 21:22:58 +0900 
 Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp> wrote:

 > Hi, all.  I asked how to use CD-ROM drive with NetBSD/pmax a few days
 > ago.  After I poked around source codes more carefully, I'm about to
 > conclude there is no way to use CD-ROM drive with NetBSD/pmax since it
 > still uses rzdriver for HD devices and tzdriver for tape devices, and
 > doesn't have CD-ROM specific drivers.  So it's not just a mknod issue.
 > Is it a right conclusion?

...the hp300 port, at least, can use the hp300-specific sd driver for
CD-ROMs.  I would assume that the pmax port could do the same, or
could be easily modified to...

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