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Date:      Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:55:34 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for cdrom that writes for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <393C21D6.F6926608@3-cities.com>
References:  <200006052132.RAA00442@tracker>

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David Banning wrote:
> 
> Anyone have one that works - I wonder if simply writing to
> /dev/cdromdevice would work under FreeBSD if I just buy and
> off-the-shelf one.

You never assume anything works off of the shelf on computers. This is
especially true when the major market is MS Windows based and you have
all of the various half_brain_dead win-devices. I have an HP-8100 and
burncd works just fine on 4.0-Stable. There are many other people with
other brands such as Yamaha's and etc. The 8100 didn't work on
4.0-Release because of idiosyncrasies in the HP.

I haven't seen anything equivalent to DirectCD, which assumes you
could "cp something /dev/acd0c" (the CDROM IDE device). That doesn't
mean it doesn't exist. I haven't looked. I've never seen anything
really complicated that you simply copy to a device and don't have any
idea if such a program exists.

HTH,

Kent

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