Reveal external CD-ROM

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Sep 13 06:04:01 2002

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Justin Frim wrote:

> ISA controller card: Reveal Computer Products Inc, V1.2, FCC ID:
> 138-MMCD861

This is what you need a driver for. The cdrom itself is a standard
interface, although certainly not ATA or SCSI like more "modern" cdrom
drives use. Reveal also went out of business ages ago, so good luck on
hunting down info and drivers on the web.

> DIP switch information for switch bank SW1 on the controller card would
> also be useful.

This sets the memory I/O address, and possibly the IRQ (I forget if this
particular card used an IRQ). Does the dip switch have 4 or 8 switches?

> BTW, I'm not really offering $20... just gratitude. But that's
> priceless, right? ;)

Uh huh... I quite likely have the docs/drivers for that card, but finding
time to move things (lots of big, heavy things) to get access to them is
another story...

> And if anyone's wondering why I'd want to use such an old peripheral,
> it's because it's going on a dedicated network server I'm setting up
> (FTP, HTTP, SMTP, NAT, Socks5, and DHCP). The server only needs a
> CD-ROM for two things:

Wouldn't it be easier to use an old 4x ATA drive for this particular
setup?

> #1, installing the operating system (Win32. Don't laugh. I'm no UNIX
> pro) and software distributed by CD (this is a one-time thing).

Linux and FreeBSD both work with that controller/cdrom btw.

-Toth
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 06:04:01 BST