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Re: Cdrom - Info - Help - Please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Fitzgerald)
Sat Nov 23 20:58:22 1996
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:56:51 -0400
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From: Mark Fitzgerald <markf@campnet.nb.ca>
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Hi Darron,
Okay .. I'll check it out. Appreciate the reply kind Sir.
I'm looking at the model number, as that's about all I see other then the
FCC stuff and etc. MODEL NO: GCD-R542B -- Manufactured Oct-95 - Made in
Korea.
Mark F.
At 06:56 PM 11/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>> Has any installed 2.1 or 4.0 RH-Linux with the ( REVEAL CDQ200 cdrom
>drive )
>>I can't find any info on rather it is or isn't supported.
>>I had to use it's own controller/Interface card and I had to use 1E8,11,3EE
>>Like this ==> C:\CDROM\GCD540.SYS /D:MSCD000 /C:1E8,11,3EE.
>>
>>It wouldn't run off my controller or sound card. As a matter of fact, This
>was
>>the omly PORT and IRQ, I could get it to run on.
>>
>> After all the work, I can only hope that Linux supports this drive. I
>guess
>>Reveal has gone bankrupt and there web pages have been removed. So hard to
>>find
>>out who built the cdrom. Someone on an IRC chat room said "maybe FUNAI
>built
>>it, I think they did build some of the Reveal cdroms." He didn't know for
>sure
>>though.
>A lot of companies made Reveal cdroms.. I have a reveal 2x speed cdrom I got
>from a friend which sounds very similar to yours, which is as far as I can
>tell
>a Panasonic CR-563-B mine is. I have yet to get the cdrom to work since I
>didn't
>get the interface card and it seems to be very propritary to that card and
>won't run on anything else. If you look on the cdrom on its labeling, you
>might get a better hint of what it is.
>
>Darron
>
>
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