On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15:
> > > Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone
> > > have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it?
> >
> > It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly, there are three
> > different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16; one is the
> > Matsushita drive, there's also a Mutsumi interface (I don't think we
> > support it) and a Sony interface (also, I believe, unsupported).
>
> actually, only certain drives are supported on the interfaces... this
> is from -current's LINT:
> # for the Sony CDU31/33A CDROM
> device scd0 at isa? port 0x230
> # matcd: Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM
> # for the SoundBlaster 16 multicd - up to 4 devices
> controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230
> # mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM
> device mcd0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10
>
> so, we support all three different interfaces, but the support is
> quite weak... I'm not even sure if these even work anymore, do
> people havesome hardware they run tests on these interfaces?
I have a 486 with a matcd drive. Currently it runs 2.2.8R. The CD works,
though occasionaly I get errors on it. I intend to upgrade it to 3.2R or
-STABLE as soon as I get its monitor fixed (died a few weeks ago :-( )...
>
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