From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 17 10:59:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from monster.abyss.net (dark.abyss.net [207.198.22.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0E614EBB for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksb@abyss.net) Received: from nightmare.abyss.net (ksb@nightmare.abyss.net [10.0.0.3]) by monster.abyss.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA30849; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:48:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ksb@abyss.net) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:58:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kevin S. Brackett" To: Andrew Atrens Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Amancio Hasty Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For a list of "reported to work" drives that work with cdrecord check out: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.8.html Also, notice the "It should run on: All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives, All ATAPI/mmc compliant drvies" The HP 7200 drive is listed, so maybe it will work with your drive. - kevin On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > Hi Amancio, > > I've got a: > > acd0: CDROM drive at ata1 as master > acd0: drive speed 1034KB/sec, 768KB cache > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track > acd0: supported write types: CD-R, CD-RW, test write > acd0: Audio: play, 128 volume levels > > (HP 7200i) which works great. Burning is done via wormcontrol + dd as per > Soren's recommendations. Data starvation was never a problem with my old > 430Tx based motherboard, but became a problem when I moved up to Asus > P5A/ALi board. The solution, it turns out, was to give dd a larger > input/output block size - 20k instead of 2k (yes, I used team, and no, it > didn't solve the problem ;)). > > Unfortunately there is no FreeBSD/cdrecord support for this or any other > ATAPI drive. I've suggested to Soren that it wbn if his ATAPI stuff was > layered under CAM, since this might possibly make porting things like > cdrecord a bit more straightforward. As I understand it though the ATAPI > spec is such that ATAPI devices can fail in ways that are not currently > handled by CAM so this wouldn't be, shall we say, `a piece of cake'. So, > as the saying goes beggars can't be choosers, and I am happy with and > grateful for all of Soren's efforts. :) > > To conclude, I like 7200i, the FreeBSD support is reasonable (for what I > need), and this device is somewhat cheaper than it's SCSI cousins. > > > Cheers, > > Andrew. > > -- > +-- > | Andrew Atrens Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada. | > | All opinions expressed are my own, not those of any employer. | > --+ > Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. > Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on > anywhere within the organization. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message