Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:44:34 -0700 From: Aaron Shaw <aaron@wilde.ryker.org> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which IDE CDRW for burncd? Message-ID: <20001128174434.A1049@wilde.ryker.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011281849080.7130-100000@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>; from timcm@umich.edu on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:54:39PM -0500 References: <20001128153125.A864@wilde.ryker.org> <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011281849080.7130-100000@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:54:39PM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > > 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. We tried the 12/10/32A model that you are referring to. It seemed to write to the disc OK but wouldn't fixate the media at the end. OpenBSD works with these drives because cdrecord sees it as a SCSI device through an ATAPI-SCSI translation layer. That's the theory, anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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