Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:46:05 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Aaron Shaw <aaron@wilde.ryker.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which IDE CDRW for burncd? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011282044360.7130-100000@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001128174434.A1049@wilde.ryker.org>
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Aaron Shaw wrote: > 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. Couldn't that be a relatively easily resolved driver issue? > OpenBSD > works with these drives because cdrecord sees it as a SCSI device > through an ATAPI-SCSI translation layer. That's the theory, anyway. I had forgotten about that. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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