Re: mcd-driver and joliet
kwrohrer@enteract.com
Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:07:50 -0500 (CDT)
And lo, Steve Schroeder saith unto me:
> Erik Andersen writes:
> >I suppose that if noone can think of a good reason to keep the old mcd
> >driver around, I could completely drop it from the kernel as part of my
> >CD-ROM update for the 2.1.x kernel.
> A sizable number of old Mitsumi drives like the FX001D (a doublespin drive
> from the time when the NEC triple was the fastest) do not work with the mcdx
> driver. The FX001D was a cheap drive at the time about $180 versus $450 for
> NEC's triple and mine atleast still works today.
Funny, my FX001D took to mcdx as easily as to mcd, though I think I had
to explicitly tell both I changed the IRQ. I got it when it cost $150,
so earlier models might have problems mine didn't. What kind of "do not
work" did the non-working FX001D's exhibit, do you know?
Keith (alas, sold mine...)