Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:24:37 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom writer Message-ID: <19990612102437.A3684@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <199906121318.IAA05176@quark.ChrisBowman.com>; from Christopher R. Bowman on Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 09:15:58AM -0400 References: <19990609184457.A22109@caamora.com.au> <19990609184457.A22109@caamora.com.au> <19990612084327.A1400@ipass.net> <199906121318.IAA05176@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
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Christopher R. Bowman:
|At 08:43 AM 6/12/99 -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
|>jonathan michaels:
|> |can anyone recommend, or suggest a replacement for the old hp
|> |'cd writer' model 6020, please.
|>
|>I don't know if you have specific requirements beyond that, but I use a
|>Ricoh 6200S. Good driver support in FreeBSD/MSW. Good apps in Win
|>(EZCDCreator, etc.). Works well in FreeBSD; 3.2-RELEASE currently.
|>
|>Burns data and audio CDs; burns CDRs and CDRWs; erases CDRWs. I've done
|>all of this in both OSs except I haven't tried burning audio CDs in FreeBSD.
|>(No need now -- I moved all my old band tapes onto CD months ago.)
|
|I am curious, how do you burn and erase CDRWs?
Well, on a capable writer, you burn them just like CDRs. E.g. to burn an
ISO CD image, I use:
cdrecord -v -fs=0 speed=2 dev=0,0 /path/iso.img
(Double-speed is nice since it only takes 35 min for a full 650MB instead of
around 70min.)
Then to erase CDRWs:
cdrecord -blank=fast OR
cdrecord -blank=all
Of course you can read these CDRs/CDRWs on your CD-recorder drive. But to
keep the wear-and-tear off them except for burning, just pick up a cheap
multi-read IDE CD-ROM. This let's you read CDRWs (and CDRs of course) on
the cheap drive which is what I typically do. I picked up one of those
Digital Research 36X in December (the ones they're practically giving away
at Frys, CompUSA, Staples, etc.) It's 36X -- really 9X or so I believe --
but much faster than the 2X read of the burner.
Randall
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