From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 15:54:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F2737B402 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:54:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.140]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id SAA28796; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:54:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id SAA11205; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:54:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:54:39 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Aaron Shaw Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which IDE CDRW for burncd? In-Reply-To: <20001128153125.A864@wilde.ryker.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Aaron Shaw wrote: > I'm running 4.1.1-RELEASE and need a CDRW drive that will work with > Soren's /usr/sbin/burncd program. We tried a new Plextor and it > was a dismal failure. Suggestions? Yamaha, HP? Particular models? What plextor drive did you try? I've heard specifically from someone that they got the plexwriter 10/12/32 to work fine. What errors did you receive? Are you sure it wasn't just a random piece of bad hardware? I'm curious because the plexwriter has gotten extremely high reviews for reliability, so I'm looking to buy one to use with FreeBSD. > While I'm at it, how does one rip audio from music CDs using one > of these IDE drives (in the format that burncd can write back)? There > are about 42 ways to do it with SCSI stuff but IDE is a mystery. Sorry I can't help there. I'd like to know too. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message