Proprietary CD-ROM drives

Erik Andersen (andersee@debian.org)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:58:18 -0600

I am doing a lot of work right now on the kernel CD-ROM interface,
and I wanted to get a feel for how many people are using any of the
kernel's proprietary CD-ROM drivers. These are the "non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI
CDROM drives" such as those provided by any of the following drivers:

aztcd.c bpcd.c cdi.c cdu31a.c sbpcd.c
gscd.c isp16.c mcd.c mcdx.c optcd.c
sbpcd2.c sbpcd3.c sbpcd4.c sjcd.c sonycd535.c

If you are using any of these drivers, could you please send me a
brief note (i.e. don't send it to the kernel mailing list) stating which
driver you use, how many machines you use it on, and how important
you consider kernel support for this type of cdrom drive to be. I
am _not_ planning on unilaterally dropping drivers or anything, this
is purely to help give me some idea as to which are the most used
and therefore most important drivers. Anyway, if you use any of the
above mentioned drivers, please send me a note with the words:
"CDROM_SURVEY" in the subject of your email. If you use a SCSI
or ATAPI (ide) cdrom drive, please don't respond (at least not
with CDROM_SURVEY in your email's subject).

Thank-you for your help,

-Erik

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