Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:34:15 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Hardware that works Message-ID: <006601c098ab$a5f1f120$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <a05010406b6b3abe43b87@[153.9.17.27]>
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You can purchase SCSI burners cheaply enough and your not going to have any trouble with them, why mess around with ATAPI? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James B. > Wilkinson > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:47 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Hardware that works > > > I've just looked through the 4.2 release notes regarding supported > configurations. I didn't see anything about CD burners. Does having > ATA among supported disk controllers mean that ATA CD burners should > all work? (I also checked appendix F in the Handbook, but what's > there seems to be about 5 years old, at least the part about burning > CD's.) There are probably more places I should have found to look in > but didn't. > > It took me a while to decide to write this because I was afraid that > somebody might interpret it as a complaint. That's not my intention; > it would be churlish. You guys are doing us all a great service, and > we appreciate it. However I think I'm sort of stuck here and need > some help. > > I've got a lab full of old 100-Mhz. Zenith Campus Z-Stations that I > use in my networking course. About all we do is to install FreeBSD on > all of them and hook them together and make them talk to each other, > but there are some things that should be backed up from time to time, > and burning CD's seems to be the right way to do it. I don't want to > buy something I can't use. > > > In case it does you any good to know this, FreeBSD works fine on the > Z-Stations, except that it can't see the ATAPI CD drive on most of > them. T'is a puzzlement, but we get by ok. On the other hand, these > machines came with Accton EN1661 Ethernet cards, and they all seem to > work just fine using the NE2000 driver. > > > Thanks > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science > jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston > (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 > > If there is one word to describe me, > that word would have to be "profectionist". > Any form of incompitence is an athema to me. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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