From: martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors) Subject: Re: Linux 1.0 on CD-ROM? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 16:54:45 GMT
In article <1993Feb27.014800.21230@netcom.com> yci@netcom.com (Yggdrasil
Computing) writes:
> In article <1993Feb26.162405.24446@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors) writes:
> >[Is Yggdrasil] being specific about the "Sony CDU-31A with its
> >standard controller" for a reason or will any MSCDEX-supported (under
DOS)
> >drive work?
> The various non-SCSI drives and their interfaces are all
> sufficiently different that they need separate device drivers, or
> at least separate sections of code in a device driver to deal with
> each type of drive. MSCDEX is no different, by the way. It's just
> that every CD-ROM drive under the sun comes with a floppy disk
> containing the appropriate MSCDEX drivers and none of them come
> with Linux drivers.
Thanks for this info. Hate to avoid public service but I don't suspect I
will be writing a device driver - in the two or three years it would take
me nobody would likely appreciate my effort!
I am sufficiently interested that I have been pricing new CDROM drives
(then my four-year old gets my Tandy on her 386!). Another naive question
- is there any reason to prefer a SCSI drive other than that many of them
are supported by linux? The Sony dive seems to be available at $299 and
the SCSI seem generally to cost more.