From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 21 5:41:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E7C37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 05:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6072943E88 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 05:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E6B7D9B04; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:41:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC425D0C; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:41:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:41:42 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Inge Thorin Eidsther Cc: Subject: Re: Freecom Traveller II CD-RW supported in 4.6? In-Reply-To: <20020821131048.67ac246b.webdude@phreaker.net> Message-ID: <20020821133025.U32122-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Inge Thorin Eidsther wrote: > > I wonder if anyone has had success in getting the new > external Freecom Traveller II 16X/10X/24X CD-RW drive > (PCCard version) to work under FreeBSD? I have the Traveller II DVD/CD-RW drive, and various cables: - PCMCIA cable from an old Traveller-I drive, plus adapter cable to attach it to Traveller-II - USB2 cable - Firewire cable. The PCMCIA cable works fine, used with 'burncd' for writing. The firewire cable probably works OK - reading was no problem, writing was giving me I/O errors, but I later discovered that the CD-RW media I was using for my tests was dud. I was using cdrecord for writing. The firewire driver logs lots of error messages, but most of these appear harmless and do not affect operation. Behaviour was much the same under -current or -stable. The USB2 cable - used in USB1 mode as my laptops have only USB1 ports - worked to some extent but gave various lockups and errors, differently under -current and -stable but neither really working well. Again, this might have been made worse by my use of defective media for testing: I need to repeat my tests to get more useful results. > I plan to use it with cdrecord on a laptop computer > (running FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE) of the following make: The PCMCIA card makes the drive appear as ATAPI, so you would need the atapi-cam patches if you really need to use cdrecord - using burncd is more obvious here. The USB and Firewire drivers attach through CAM by default, so you can immediately use cdrecord with them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message