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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Mitsumi CDROM support
- Message-ID: <By0sxB.1uv@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <BxxIow.2Jy@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <9211181206@myamiga.mixcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:12:46 GMT
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- In article <9211181206@myamiga.mixcom.com> smp@myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm) writes:
- >eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- >: 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.
- > What sort of information would be needed? Hell, I'd be happy if I could
- > just start an audio CD while in Linux. :)
-
- You would need to know what the bus is for one thing. Is it just an
- IDE bus, or is it completely different? The main thing you would need to know
- how to program the adapter to get at the cdrom - (if it is an IDE, then you
- could probably borrow code from the hd code).
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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