From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 30 09:07:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03546 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03541 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA01743 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:07:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from slave1.vale.com (slave1.vale.com [192.168.129.10]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA24715 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:07:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33676F28.EBF3E065@vailsys.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:11:20 -0500 From: Dan Riley Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3C (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-R questions X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199704292340.TAA13973@silly.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am wondering what the general feelings are concerning CD-ROM writers and FreeBSD. I have read several posts in the archives, most seem to favor the HP4020 which I think is now out of production. Are there any problems with the newer model of the HP, the 6020? Also are the HP models really just Philips drives in a HP wrapper? Does FreeBSD only support the Philips model? And are the newer models supported such as the 2600 and especially the 3600 CD-Rewritable? Does anyone have any experiences with the rewritable model? A shell script was mentioned in a couple archived messages that had to do with burning cd-roms, is this script still around or is it just a quick compilation of the required mkfs and fs prepping that is necessary to burn a cd-rom filesystem? Are the procedures and this shell script documented in the Handbook or the FAQs? Thanks all for the help... Regards, Dan Riley