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Date:      Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:48:59 -0800
From:      Rob <europax@home.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: atapi CD-RW and cdrecord?
Message-ID:  <3A57E72A.7A297779@home.com>
References:  <14933.54786.263374.313873@guru.mired.org>

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If you absolutely have to do this, OpenBSD provides it.  (send em to
Gimballs :)  That was one thing I really liked about OpenBSD on my
laptop.  But I decided that 3000 more ports was a better deal so I
switched back to FreeBSD.

Rob.

Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> types:
> > I noticed that the cdrecord port (well the pkg-descr file) claims to
> > support ATAPI devices.  However, I can't seem to get this to work.  Does
> > this work under FreeBSD at all?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Sure, burncd works.  But I'm cdrecord seems more flexible... and if the
> > FreeBSD port does *NOT* support ATAPI CD-RWs, why does it state otherwise?
> 
> At a guess, because the person who did the port is hoping that FreeBSD
> will add the plumbing cdrecord needs to talk to ATAPI CD-RWs.
> 
>         <mike
> --
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