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From: Rob Mallory <rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: CDROM Recorders
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 12:59:35 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, klam@awod.com
In-Reply-To: <199603220811.JAA17517@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 22, 96 09:11:54 am
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> 
> As Ken Lam wrote:
> 
> > I am about to order a CDROM recorder, I wanted to find 
> > which are supported under FreeBSD.  I checked in the
> > LINT, FAQ, HB, but no joys there.
> 
> Support is still rather green, and only available in -current (nor
> will it creep into the 2.1 branch at all).
> 
> By now, the Plasmon and HP recorders are known to work.  Adding other
> devices is intended to be possible, but you need the SCSI reference
> from the vendor.
>
Don't get a pinnacle-micro. I've seen 3/3 unhappy pinacle customers 
who sent theirs back.  If you know someone with resale license,
get a yammaha-cde100 4x recorder for around $1300.
It's got one of the most stable (not changing) bios's around. 
Someone will eventualy will write a driver for freebsd. burning the
freebsd cdrom takes 18 mins on this puppy;)

rmallory