by I've put a driver for the Philips/LMS cm206 cd rom drive in combination
with the cm260 adapter card on sunsite. It is a beta test release.
Speeds up to 150 kB/s have been measured (this is about half the
head-speed). I'm working on a better buffer pre-fetch, but this version
will allow users with a cm206 to use their cdrom player.
The driver is delivered as a kernel patch to linux-1.1.75, but successful
installations in the range of 0.99pl16--1.1.90 have been reported.
You may have to apply some rejected patches to different kernel versions,
as some parts of the code tend to move around on kernel updates.
The driver will /not/ work for cm205 (there is another driver for this
drive) or cm205ms+cm250 drives. (Send me the technical docs of the
cm250+cm205ms---this may help me for a `general' driver if it is feasible.)
It is available as
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/cm206.0.22b.tar.gz
success
---david
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David van Leeuwen
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