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Subject: Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?
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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> How standard are DVD writers these days? In the sense
> of: can I expect an ATAPI DVDwriter to 'just work'
> with FreeBSD or are there brands/models to avoid or
> to prefer?
>=20
> Any experiences with a NEC ND-2510 ?  Good/bad?

Bought one of those a couble of weeks ago, it has burnt CDR, CDRW,=20
DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW media for me with no problems at all. Havn't tried=20
duallayer media yet as I havn't been able to locate any that didn't cost =

an arm and a leg :)
Oh, its slow for ripping as they have put in a lock for that, you can=20
get around it by loading new firmware that removes that lock (and region =

locking as well if needed) from here http://tdb.rpc1.org/index.htm

-S=F8ren