cd-rom drive on parallel port

[Marc UBM Bocklet]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:45:39 +0100
Marc "UBM" Bocklet <ubm at u-boot-man.de> wrote:

> 
> Hiho! :-)
> 
> I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parallel port. It's
> working under DOS 6.2 with a special driver but there is no sign of it
> in the dmesg or anywhere else under FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> 
> Is this kind of device supported under FreeBSD?
> I've checked the man pages and google, but found nothing on the
> subject.
> 
> It's not really important to get it to work, I'm mainly curious ;-)
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Nobody on this list ever tried using one? :-)

Bye
Marc