12 Sep
2002
12 Sep
'02
6:14 a.m.
$20 to anyone who can find me an MS-DOS driver for a Reveal external 2X CD-ROM drive,
model CD 610, FCC ID:
138-EXT-CDROMSLM
Specifics:
ISA controller card: Reveal Computer Products Inc, V1.2, FCC ID: 138-MMCD861
CD-ROM drive: Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd, model CD-563-B, FCC ID:
IUO9TB008CRB
DIP switch information for switch bank SW1 on the controller card would also be useful.
BTW, I'm not really offering $20... just gratitude. But that's priceless, right?
;)
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:
#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).
#2, providing an "online CD of the week" available for download by FTP and HTTP
(the bottleneck will be in
the server's internet connection bandwidth anyways, not the CD-ROM speed)
12 Sep
12 Sep
8:57 a.m.
Justin Frim wrote:
$20 to anyone who can find me an MS-DOS driver for a
Reveal external
2X CD-ROM drive, model CD 610, FCC ID: 138-EXT-CDROMSLM
Specifics:
ISA controller card: Reveal Computer Products Inc, V1.2, FCC ID:
138-MMCD861 CD-ROM drive: Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics
Industries Ltd, model CD-563-B, FCC ID: IUO9TB008CRB
The Matsushita (Panasonic)
CDROM is the same as one I had - IIRC mine was a
CR563B. It uses a Panasonic bus - NOT IDE. Most of the controller cards used
the same drivers anyway. MKE wrote a driver and everyone went and cloned
their card. I'll see if I can find a driver for you.
DIP switch information for switch bank SW1 on the
controller card
would also be useful.
Probably selects the card address.
BTW, I'm not really offering $20... just
gratitude. But that's
priceless, right? ;)
Uh-hu..... Riiiiighhttt....
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
11:04 p.m.
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
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