From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 22:48:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18926 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apotheosis.za.org (apotheosis.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18899 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:48:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lonewolf@apotheosis.za.org) Received: from mwest by apotheosis.za.org with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zgNsB-00016e-00; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:47:23 +0200 Message-ID: <19981119084723.B4206@cs.uct.ac.za> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:47:23 +0200 From: Matthew West To: khetan@os.org.za Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM Writer Mail-Followup-To: khetan@os.org.za, questions@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "Khetan Gajjar" on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 01:03:01AM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Khetan On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 01:03:01AM +0200, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > I'm running 3.0-CURRENT, and am planning to buy a CD-ROM writer or rewriter. > I'm undecided whether to purchase a IDE or SCSI-based drive (I do have a > spare IDE slot and do have a ISA Adaptec 1542). The drive I'm thinking > of getting is the HP 8100 IDE based drive. I have an HP8100 IDE in my -STABLE box, and it's a real pain to get anything burnt on it. I'd definitely recommend going with a SCSI burner if at all possible. > Does anyone have any experience with this, and is there anything to watch > out for (I know the IDE CD-ROM has to be on the primary IDE channel, and not > the secondary channel). I've tried the "acd" driver, and it does appear to allow me to _write_ to the CD, but it has a problem writing the TOC at the end. So far I've only tried to burn audio tracks, but I will hopefully get a chance to try a data CD this weekend sometime. --mwest@uct.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message