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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: (Joerg Wunsch) <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: Some SCSI Questions...
Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, (J Wunsch) <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Hi J Wunsch;  On 07-Feb-97 you wrote: 
> As Simon Shapiro wrote:
> 
> > > Is there a particular reason why you're not satisfied with worm(4)?
> > 
> > What you do not know can (and usually will) hurt you :-)
> 
> ;-)
> 
> > The next question is about Yamaha CDR-100 support.
> > Will I have to provide it?
> 
> Yes please.  Yamaha is known to be very conservative about giving out
> documentation (NDA and such).  This was one of my points to decide
> against them when the question came for which CD-R to buy (by a time
> when there was no working support at all for them in FreeBSD, only
> Peter Dufault's stub driver).
> 
> Getting the Yamaha to work should not be a major piece of work,
> judging from Linux' cdwrite.  I think it will fit into the existing
> model, it's just that they use some different mode pages to do the
> work.  However, i was hesitant to play this game without the chance of
> getting docs.  (Mind you, the recipe for the correct write sequence of
> my Plasmon is almost one page, in 10 pt letters. ;)

I received the documentation without much problem.  Have to find where
I stuffed it.  Looked easy enough.  Real soon any day now :-)

Simon