From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 1 18:48:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06535 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA06526 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (lot.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [203.20.121.21]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA26829 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:18:15 +0930 (CST) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00569; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:15:33 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709020145.LAA00569@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM drives in general In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 14:01:14 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 11:15:32 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > That is interesting, it's a Goldstar 8X R508B, I think it cost me $125 at > the time I bought it, there were actually also 16Xs for $139 but the were > "Cheap Crap", and one of the reasons I bought the Goldstar was because > they had actually printed on the outside of the box "Compatible with > Win95, WinNT, DOS, and Linux", and you don't exactly see that alot when > buying PC Hardware (Referring to Linux Particularily) -- Ofcourse if > freebsd ran QUAKE it probably would of said FreeBSD not Linux. 1) FreeBSD does run Quake. 2) LG ("Goldstar") gear in that market *is* pretty bad. Try NEC, Sony, Matsushita (aka Panasonic) or Toshiba, maybe Pioneer (aka TEAC, aka CDC) and Phillips (if they're still in the market in your area). Most "consumer" CDROMs are pretty trashy to begin with, so don't get your hopes up too far. Note also that the audio and data paths are completely separate, so there's little chance that the data buffer is available to the audio playback hardware. mike