From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 03:50:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA16858 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 03:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA16794 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 03:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA26689 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 22 May 1996 12:48:20 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uMBSj-00020CC; Wed, 22 May 96 12:48 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA188851902; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:45:02 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199605221045.AA188851902@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: Hi again: PD optical drives To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:45:02 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at In-Reply-To: <199605220946.LAA13889@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 22, 96 11:46:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "In his e-mail J Wunsch wrote:" > As Hr.Ladavac wrote: > > It's been a while. > > > > BTW, did anyone have a go at the PD opticals? > > What is it? > > I've got an MO drive working with the `od' driver, in case this is > what you mean. A relatively new "Phase Change" technology. Somewhat similar to MO, but not quite - a rewritable purely optical. `od' driver could be interesting as a start, but these things combine a SCSI CD-ROM reader on one LUN, and a Removable Media on another (not at the same time, though.) They seem to be an interesting backup media (slow at writing, but 4x speed at reading) and should be capable of being bootable - even though I did not manage to achieve that with ASUS built in NCR bios. Since I have one, I will probably look into getting it to run under FreeBSD. Too bad I don't know much about SCSI programming. BTW, one of these devices goes for ~400 USD, and media is 30 - 50 USD (650 MB, formatted). /Marino > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >