From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 02:12:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA15433 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA15428 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA02463; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:15:16 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199601111015.FAA02463@hda.com> Subject: Re: I have authorization to buy a CD-R drive.. Which one? :-) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:15:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <8393.821324256@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 10, 96 05:37:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Well, WC has kindly consented to buying another CD-R drive to replace > the one that died before Julian and I ever really got started. > Joerg's recent successes in this area also helped! :-) Thanks WC. > If I can get this working under FreeBSD, it will also substantially > improve my ability to test the CD distributions - something I'm sure > that everyone here would like to see more of.. :-) > > So, the only question is: Which model? I'd like to buy one of the > cheaper models, like the new HP, I just don't have any part numbers to > pass on to our local hardware vendor. > > Any suggestions or personal preferences? Given the price and wide availability of the HP surestore 4020i (a big stack at CompUSA at $999.00), I think that is one to support. The best way to proceed would be to let Joerg finish the preliminary support for the "Plasmon" he has while tracking down the programmer documentation for the Surestore. Then you can buy it and immediately make some headway with it. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267