Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:55:51 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>, Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, "Aleksandar Simic'" <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The right way to burn CDs ? Message-ID: <20010328095550.A18291@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> In-Reply-To: <000e01c0b759$cb013440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:36:25PM -0800 References: <20010327100742.A27094@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <000e01c0b759$cb013440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:36:25PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > You may be somewhat interested in my story then: > > I'm an owner of a Phillips CDD2000 cd, this is the one that the > class-action lawsuit was filed on. > > Well, I recieved a brand-new replacement Phillips CDROM drive in the > mail a couple weeks ago, as a result of settling that class action. > > Only problem was - they sent an IDE burner, NOT a SCSI burner. The > class-action was filed on the SCSI burners. Needless to say Phillips > found a way to worm out of the settlement and screw the consumers > again, since the IDE burners are of course cheaper than the SCSI ones. > > I figured that it took 4 years to get the bastards to make good on > their crappy hardware and I wasn't going to wait another 4 years, > besides that my wife's Winblows system works great with it and they at > least did ship out Adaptec EasySleasy creator which reads ISO's. I am not exactly sure what your point is. Are you saying that the Phillips IDE drive does not work under FreeBSD for burning CDs? I do not feel that there is anything wrong with my drive from a quality or ATAPI spec implementation point of view. I know a lot of non-standard hardware can be made to work under Windows with proprietary drivers so I would never use the "it works with Windows" argument to make my point. My point was that my drive and others work under Linux with open-source software and should be able to work under FreeBSD as well. Unfortunately, I do not have the requisite skill to fix the problem so I boot into a Linux system when I need to burn a CD. It is inconvenient but gets the job done. I only hope that the people who do have the skill to fix the problem realize that it is a software problem and not a hardware problem. In my opinion, the FreeBSD project can not claim support for ATAPI CDR-RW drives in general. There could be a list of supported drives but to my knowledge this does not exist. -- Glenn Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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