Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael K. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: mcd-driver and joliet | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:15:35 +0500 |
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Erik Andersen writes: >Certainly one of >them should be eliminated, and mcdx seems to be cleaner and more >featureful (I have carefully read both drivers (I wish I knew where the >spec for the Mitsumi is hiding)). > >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.
Unfortunately, and I do mean unfortunately, there are drives that don't work with the mcd driver, and drives that don't work with the mcdx driver. Not all Mitsumi drives are created equal, it seems. I have not discovered any relationship with whether the drives are single or double speed, either.
:-(
michaelkjohnson
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