From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 16:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilde.ryker.org (wilde.ryker.org [24.108.95.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316E237B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:44:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by wilde.ryker.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 768EF49A06; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:44:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:44:34 -0700 From: Aaron Shaw To: Tim McMillen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which IDE CDRW for burncd? Message-ID: <20001128174434.A1049@wilde.ryker.org> References: <20001128153125.A864@wilde.ryker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:54:39PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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