Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:04:07 -0800 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi cdrom writer Message-ID: <20020219190414.548FD37B405@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020218151328.A1055@lymond.lvcablemodem.com> References: <20020218151328.A1055@lymond.lvcablemodem.com>
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On Monday 18 February 2002 03:13 pm, Dale Morris wrote: > To use freebsd with the above system it looks like I will have to get > another cd burner, scsi to integrate with freebsd. I did a little > looking around and in my city of 1.5m there are none to be found. Seems > everything is going to USB. I think you're going to get the same problems with an external USB burner (I don't know since I've never tried). Most cd burning software expects a scsi drive. The burncd software that comes with FreeBSD will work fine on IDE drives, but all the nice frontends and guis for burning want to use cdrecord which is scsi only. > I'm wondering if it's worth it to get a scsi off the net or just wait > and eventually freebsd will work with my existing equipment? I don't > know what the current thinking is on this, I'm to new to the enviornment > to tell. It depends upon how urgent your need is. scsi emulation for IDE drives should be in 5.0 but that's still half a year away at least. burncd is fine for burning ISO images, but it doesn't have the feature set of cdrecord. I keep a Linux partition around for software development (compatibility testing), and use that for all my burning needs. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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