Subject: Re: IDE Mitsumi CRMC-FX400 CD-ROM
To: Paul Wilkinson <paul@parsys.co.uk>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@SJ.Xenotropic.COM>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/1995 12:25:57
In message <9506281204.AA27922@roosta.co.uk>,
	Paul Wilkinson writes:
>
>The hardware is a Dell P75 with a WD 2540F drive on the enhanced IDE bus
>and a Mitsumi CRMC-FX400 quad speed CD-ROM drive on the IDE bus. The SVGA
>colour controller is on the PCI bus.
[...]
>Running the netbsd.GENERIC kernel I get :- 
>
>----- stuff deleted ----
>
>       sea0 board type unknown at address 0xf827c000
>
>       mcd0: timeout in getresult
>       mcd0: timeout in getresult
>       mcd0: timeout in getresult
>
>----- stuff deleted ----
>
>Looking through the mail archives I notice other people have experienced
>similar problems but it's not obvious to me how it's resolved leaving me
>with access to the CD-ROM.

NetBSD does not support ATAPI CDROMs.  Apparently, the only commonly
available PC operating system that does is Linux.

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