Re: New Mitsumi legacy CD-ROM driver

Bob Tracy
2007-05-08T21:12:51Z

Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:42:08 you wrote:
> > Mitsumi (mcdx, this driver), panasonic (sbpcd) and sony (cdu31a) are
> > somewhat of an exception in so far that controllers for those three are
> > still around on a lot of old ISA soundcards though. Moreover, I have the
> > drives to test that trio so after this mitsumi driver is complete and in
> > good shape I'll do the other two as well.
>
> I fixed cdu31a some time ago - so it at least works.
> I also have a Panasonic drive with controller integrated on a SB16 sound card
> but haven't tried it with Linux yet.
>
> It's nice to see new driver for these old drives.

Agreed. I've still got a GUS in one of my museum pieces that runs
MS-Win 3.1 by default. The BIOS is too old to support booting from
anything except hda, sda and floppy, but because I enjoy pain I'll
be happy to modify the startup floppy images for a 2.6.X-based live
CD distro (DSL, anyone?) and give the new drivers a spin when they're
ready for testing. The motherboard is a curiosity: it has ISA, PCI,
*and* VLB slots. The processor is an AMD 5x86 (think 486 on steroids).
I *might* have 32 MB of RAM to work with: I simply don't remember :-).

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