From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 4 15:52:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08481 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08471 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA01839; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001835; Fri, 4 Dec 98 15:50:27 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA08814; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:50:24 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199812042350.PAA08814@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Does DVD emulate CDROM? In-Reply-To: <199812041829.NAA17103@fnur.3skel.com> from Dan Janowski at "Dec 4, 98 01:29:49 pm" To: danj@3skel.com (Dan Janowski) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:50:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Janowski writes: > I understand that FreeBSD does not support DVD functionality, > but can it deal with a DVD as a CDROM without a problem? > Specifically I am looking at laptops and the good ones > now come with DVDs only. Yes (at least in my case). The CD-ROM functions work fine. I have a Chembook 1100M with the DVD option: http://www.chembook.chemusa.com/chembook/1100/110minfo.html -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message