Subject: Re: PCMCIA CD-ROM
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/14/2000 18:02:49
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> I'm gonna be loading NetBSD 1.4.2 on my Thinkpad760 this weekend. But here's
> the interesting part...
(You might want to try 1.5_ALPHA2 instead - the hardware support
has been updated quite a bit).
> I have this PCMCIA CD-ROM drive sitting around. Anyone know anything about
> it? Like will it/could it work with NetBSD?
>
> A search on one of the FCC IDs told me it was apparently made by a 'Lion
> Optics'. Never heard of them...
> The info on the PCMCIA adaptor is this:
> TXCD-PCM11
> FCC ID:LZNII1200
> On the bottom of the CD-ROM itself:
> PCMCIA CD-ROM DRIVE
> MODEL NO: TXCD-PCM2
> S/N: 15113000744
> FCC ID:LKAXC20011
> The CD-ROM inside:
> MODEL NO: XC-20011 (might be 'II')
It might work - if not and you can boot a kernel with
PCMCIAVERBOSE, then it may be a simple matter of adding
a couple of entries to /sys/dev/pcmcia/wdc_pcmcia.c and
/sys/dev/pcmcia/pcmciadevs
David/absolute
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