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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:18:22PM +0100, Robert Downes wrote:
>Can anyone recommend to me a DVD drive (with CD-ROM capability) that 
>FreeBSD does not seem to have any trouble using? Or, if none of you 
>think there's any point in having a DVD drive in FreeBSD, a good CD drive.

I have a Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-316B and have no problems with any of its
functions.  It's not as fast as some of the CD-only drives but I don't
see that as a particular problem.

Peter