From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 5:38:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045D337B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C14F43EA3 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BCcduF045632; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:38:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g9BCccQf045629; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:38:39 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:38:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Mark Miller Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI CDRW compatibility In-Reply-To: <20021010205148.D33526-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Mark Miller wrote: > I remember awhile back reading the list of burncd-supported ATAPI CDRW > drives, and at the time it was a short list. I'm now thinking of moving > up to a faster drive, and according to Section 4.6 of > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html > "FreeBSD supports any ATAPI-compatible IDE CD-R or CD-RW drive." > > Is this in fact correct? For burning purposes? Really? The drive > I'm considering is the Sony CRX195A1/C1, and I'd like to know if this > updated information is correct-- which improved, the software or hardware? That's a drive I have at work. Although I haven't used it much, it has worked fine, and seems to be very nice. Heavily discounted now, too. The LG drive in my notebook will read and write data CDs, and read audio, but gives an error when attempting to write audio. This is something I'd read about elsewhere, too. Since I don't record audio CD's, I haven't done anything more about it. Haven't tried it on the Sony drive, either. See http://freebsd.dk for a list of "known good" drives. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message