From: yci@netcom.com (Yggdrasil Computing) Subject: Re: mitsumi? Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 08:39:56 GMT
In article <2ym4mB1w165w@mertwig.uucp> xyzzy@gnu.ai.mit.edu writes:
>I have the Yggdrasil Linux CD-ROM. My cdrom drive is a Mitsumi-
>not SCSI. Is there a way to install Linux from this cdrom with
>my current setup? Yggdrasil's startup disk only sees SCSI drives.
>Is there a way to change this, or has someone made a boot disk
>that will see the Mitsumi drive?
Revision B of the beta release includes Martin Harriss's
Mitsumi driver. The Mitsumi drive is detected and used automatically.
Revision B works with all Mitsumi drives except for the drives
made after March 1993 with serial numbers beginning with "D," presumably
a problem shared by all Linux distributions. These drives are slightly
incompatible.
I got Mitsumi to release two pages of their drive programming
information to me without a nondisclosure agreement. To support the D
series drives, it looks like you just have to set a bit in one register,
but I haven't had time to implement and test the fix. I've sent details
of the fix to Martin, and I was only able to obtain a D series drive
on Sunday. In the meantime, I would be happy to fax the pages that
Mitsumi sent to me to any other interested Linux hacker.
-- Adam J. Richter Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated 409 Evelyn Ave., Apt. 312, Albany CA 94706 PO Box 8418, Berkeley CA 94707-8418 (510) 528-3209 (510) 526-7531, fax: (510) 528-8508 adam@netcom.com yggdrasil@netcom.com Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (lpf@uunet.uu.net).