From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 2 22:04:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26526 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26521 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA03140; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Drew Derbyshire cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE CD-R on stable (was Re: CD writers as a backup medium) In-Reply-To: <35C51864.1233FFDC@kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Ummm, semi-related question, are ONLY the SCSI CD-ROM burners supported? I > happen to have ended up with my HP IDE CD-R burner on my FreeBSD box (with > room for Windows if I have to boot back to it to burn CD-R's.) Version 1.6 of cdrecord, in the ports, has support for mmc compliant IDE burners. Though as CPU intensive as IDE is I would imagine you'd run into trouble on a system that had a fraction of the load that SCSI drives can tolerate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message