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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Mitsumi CDROM support
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <Bxx8DE.HH3@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:38:55 GMT
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- In article <Bxx8DE.HH3@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
- >I just got a Radio Shack CDROM because it was cheap ($200). It seems to
- >be a mitsumi, at the driver software has MITSUMI in it. The
- >interface is a very plain card that looks like it just has a couple of
- >i/o ports on it. It's not scsi. Does anyone have more documentation on
- >the interface, or source code for drivers?
-
- Not that I know of. As I understand it, this is a proprietary
- interface of one kind or another. If someone could figure out the details, it
- might not be that hard to add a linux driver, but for now you will be limited
- to DOS.
-
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- Eric Youngdale
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