Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:45:02 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at Subject: Re: Hi again: PD optical drives Message-ID: <199605221045.AA188851902@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
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"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. ;-) >
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