Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mcd-driver and joliet | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:07:50 -0500 (CDT) | From | kwrohrer@enteract ... |
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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...)
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