Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:38:01 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> To: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware that works Message-ID: <200102171938.f1HJc1m22824@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:46:38 EST." <a05010406b6b3abe43b87@[153.9.17.27]>
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"James B. Wilkinson" writes: > I've just looked through the 4.2 release notes regarding supported > configurations. I didn't see anything about CD burners. Does having > ATA among supported disk controllers mean that ATA CD burners should > all work? (I also checked appendix F in the Handbook, but what's > there seems to be about 5 years old, at least the part about burning > CD's.) There are probably more places I should have found to look in > but didn't. Modern ATAPI CD drives work with FreeBSD. Ancient IDE CD drives took a while to stabilize and unifiy their command interface. I know HP and Sony CD-RW ATA drives work well with FreeBSD 4.2. A Philips 8/4/32 did not work reliably and was returned. Not a FreeBSD problem as the Philips drive had problems reading recordable media with every OS. Wrote OK but just didn't read reliably. There was a FreeBSD issue with the Philips in that doing a raw disc verify "dd if=/dev/acd0c bs=2k | md5" the disc read 1 block short. Not a problem with HP ATA and SCSI drives, nor the one Sony 12/8/32 CD-RW ATA drive I've used. Nor with an old 4x Sony IDE read-only. > I've got a lab full of old 100-Mhz. Zenith Campus Z-Stations that I Those ATA interfaces may not be fast enough to support a CD-RW drive. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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