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- From: ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.191420.21587@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:14:20 GMT
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- In article <9208251947.AA08050@quaestor> "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM> writes:
- > Has anyone heard of a Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM drive? I believe the
- > company is connected to Panasonic, so this could be one of Panasonics
- > drives. I don't have a model number with it, but I was wondering if the
- > drive would be compatible with everything I'm likely to use it for (under
- > MS-DOS, Linux (386 Unix), and maybe AmigaDOS).
- >
- >Matsushita (the i is silent) is a very large company in Japan. Their
- >products are marketed under the 'Panasonic' and 'Quasar' brand names
- >in the US, and under the 'National' brand name in the Far East.
-
- While we are on the subject of these inexpensive CDROM drives, does
- anyone know what type of interface these use? Are they SCSI or something else,
- and if they are not SCSI, what are they?
-
- The reason that I am asking is that I did part of the work to add
- support for SCSI cdroms to Linux, and I am curious as to whether these
- cheap drives can also be made to work.
-
- -Eric
-