From: dws@cseg03.engr.uark.edu (David W. Summers) Subject: Re: Driver for Creative Labs CDROM Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 02:03:09 GMT
rusty@anasazi.com (Rusty Carruth) writes:
>In article <1993May14.021931.23662@alw.nih.gov> gregh@hercules.dcrt.nih.gov (Gregory Humphreys) writes:
>>I have received numerous requests for a driver for the Creative Labs CDROM,
>>so I thought I would just post its location here. the SBPCD driver
>>can be found in /pub/linux/ALPHA/cdrom/sbpcd0.2.tar.
>...
>>author claims he is working on it. His email address is
>>emoenke@vax.gwdg.de.
>
>Well, I got all excited and sent a thanks note to both Greg (the
>person posting the above) and Eberhard (the author).
>
>Here is the reply I got from emoenke@vax.gwdg.de's (the author):
>
>% From ibm.gwdg.de!gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de!emoenke Wed May 19 21:04:04 1993
>% From: "GWDGV1::EMOENKE" <emoenke@gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de>
>%
>% Hi Rusty,
>%
>% Please, try sbpcd03.* (at tsx-11 since last week). 02 is locking all
>% interrupts during each transfer - that produces big latencies, and it is
>% absolutely not necessary. Further I have changed flow control (but I'm
>% still experimenting with it, so we will stay in alpha state for a while).
>%
>% "home" of sbpcd* is ftp.gwdg.de (pub/linux/cdrom), but I will keep tsx-11
>% up-to-date, too.
>%
>% Would you please forward this message into comp.os.linux for me?
>%
>% Thanx, and greetings ... Eberhard Moenkeberg (FIDO 2:241/3410.27)
>
>So all us frustrated SBpro owners need be frustrated no more!
>
>Rusty@anasazi.com
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Cool! Is there any way to plug more than one SCSI peripheral into the
SoundBlaster SCSI interface, or is the actual pin-out proprietary?
(I know that the programmatic interface to the SoundBlaster SCSI interface
is proprietary, or at least that is what I've heard...)
- David Summers
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