Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:18:41 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: Scott Gasch <sgasch@microsoft.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Status of CDR support? Message-ID: <19981029211841.A269@rtfm.net> In-Reply-To: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD540700D8DA@RED-MSG-44>; from Scott Gasch on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:14:05PM -0800 References: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD540700D8DA@RED-MSG-44>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:14:05PM -0800, Scott Gasch wrote: > Hello, > > I am curious as to the current support for CDR/CDRW devices. The handbook > says only old HP, Philips and Plasmon (whoever they are) are supported. > However > a search of the mailing list archives seems to suggest a beta IDE/Atapi > driver is in > the works. The Hardware.txt file in today's snapshot makes no reference to > this... > > Can somone enumerate what drives are known to work, what drives are > suspected > to work, and what drives may work sometime soon? Get a copy of cdrecord (/usr/ports/sysutils/cdrecord; or get the tarball from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/). This is the de facto Unix CD burning software. It is the recommended way of burning CDs under FreeBSD (since worm0 left when CAM came in, possibly the only practical way). Inside you should see a list of hardware supported, and it is definitely more extensive than what you listed, so don't fret :-) If you don't have a SCSI CD-R drive, I'm pretty sure you're SOL. AFAICS, cdrecord is SCSI at heart. There was discussion here about experimental ATAPI/IDE burner support but I don't know where it went. Just avoid the giant IDE conspiracy altogether and get SCSI if you can. Just say NO to IDE. IDE sucks. And so on :-) > Thanks, > Scott -- ________________ ___________________________________________ / Nathan Dorfman \ / "`IE4 brings the web to UNIX'? *laughing* / nathan@rtfm.net \/ Isn't that similar to Ronald McDonald bringing / finger for PGP key \ religion to the pope?" -Jamie Bowden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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