From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 11:04:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.FreeBSD.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28938 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28925 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09115; Thu, 29 May 1997 20:02:46 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199705291802.UAA09115@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: HP 6020 Problems In-Reply-To: <27401.864919797@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 29, 97 08:29:57 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:02:46 +0200 (SAT) Cc: tom@tomqnx.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Jordon's original announcement for Release 2.2.1 stated that the HP 6020 > > was supported, so I went and bought one. It doesn't work properly as a WORM > > device for me, so I hacked the driver to allow myself to burn CDs with it. > > That's weird, since I also just got a 6020i to replace my deceased > 4020i (the HP CDRs have a pretty short lifetime, it must be said) and > it was just plug-n-play. Joerg: Did you add something post 2.2.1 to > support the 6020 drive a bit more seamlessly? IIRC, it was supported > back then too. > > Jordan > Well, I was using a HP6020 from a late 2.2.0-BETA onwards. I use it on a NCR controller, if it makes a difference. The only hickup was that you have to eject the media between accesses. This was supposedly fixed a while back, but I haven't upgraded after that, so I don't know if it works for me also. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za