Subject: Re: SCSI controler support
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/23/2001 04:54:30
>The original Apple CDROM drive will read the commercial "pressed"
>CDROMs (like the Redbook one) with no trouble, but cannot read the
>CD-Rs that you burn yourself.

>Incidentally, I have a NEC 2x drive model unknown (no label on it)
>which works with its own Control Panel under Mac OS, but isn't
>recognized by NetBSD. Any one familiar with it?

>Dan Killoran

I think when a company sells CDRs, it's like what you would burn yourself?

Is the NEC 2x drive SCSI, IDE/ATAPI or other, proprietary like the original
Mitsumi?  Maybe you could check what the Mac OS Control Panel says?

When did the original Apple CDROM drive come out?

>I've never had problems with CDR on old CDROM drives, as long as the session
>on the CDR is closed (old drives don't like multisession CDs), but some
>of them don't want to read CD-RW.

>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--

Now just what are multisession CDs, and what is meant by the session on the CDR
being closed?  It can be assumed the old CD-ROM drive and the drive used to burn
the CDR (disk) would not be on the same computer.

Would all SCSI controllers with NCR 5380 chip have ISA interface?  I suppose
they went out of production before the days of PCI.