Subject: New version of NEC CDR-260 cd-rom driver
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 14:49:49 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I have placed a new version of my driver for the NEC CDR-260 cd-rom
drive in pub/Linux/Incoming/nec260-0_3.tgz on sunsite.unc.edu.
It will probably eventually get moved to pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom.
This supercedes the previous version (which was called idecd).
Major changes since the last release are:

  - The driver is now structured as a loadable kernel module.

  - It now should work on a wider variety of hardware configurations,
    including those where the drive is on the second IDE controller.

  - The driver should now properly detect media changes.  The bug in
    the previous version which caused the first operation after a
    media change to fail should be fixed.

  - The name has changed to something more descriptive, and the
    default major device number has changed to avoid a conflict with
    atdisk2.

No audio functions are supported, and probably won't be for a while
unless i can turn up some actual technical documentation on this
device.

sss
[email-masked]

Begin2
Title        = NEC CDR-260 cd-rom driver
Version      = 0.3 alpha
Desc1        = A prototype driver for the NEC CDR-260 cd-rom drive.
Desc2        = Allows mounting and reading an iso-9660 filesystem.
Desc3        = No audio functions are presently supported.
Desc4        = Should work with devices on either IDE bus.
Desc5        = Driver is built as a loadable module, but requires a few small
Desc6        = kernel patches.  Patches are supplied as diffs against 1.1.50,
Desc7        = but the driver should work with most 1.1 kernels.
Author       = scott snyder
AuthorEmail  = [email-masked]
Maintainer   = scott snyder
MaintEmail   = [email-masked]
Site1        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1        = /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom
File1        = nec260-0_3.tgz
FileSize1    = 11265 bytes
Required1    = NEC CDR-260 cd-rom drive, 1.1 kernel, modules utilities
CopyPolicy1  = GPL
Keywords     = cd-rom driver NEC CDR-260
Entered      = 14SEP94
EnteredBy    = scott snyder
CheckedEmail = [email-masked]
End

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