Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:17:08 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, guido@gvr.org Subject: Re: cd-(re)rewritable Message-ID: <199804021517.RAA12593@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEACDE8E@dcn71.dcn.att.com> from "sbabkin@dcn.att.com" at "Apr 2, 98 09:22:53 am"
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In reply to sbabkin@dcn.att.com who wrote:
> > ----------
> > I want to buy a cd-(re)writable. Unfortunately, the Philips ones
> > (cdd 2000, cdd 2100, cdd 2600). are no longer in stock as well as the
> >
> > Hp ones (4020i, 6020i). The Philips rewritable, the CDD 3600 is
> > not yet being delievered.
> >
> Philips IDE devices are sold as HP 7300 or something like. But
> they are not supported :-(
Thats hp 7200i drives.
I'm writing an IDE CD-RW driver just now, so support will be there, just
a matter of how much spare time I can devote to it.
> > Are there any others that are currently being sold that are
> > supported? (Yamaha, Ricoh is often seen).
> >
> Teac makes cd-writers that have 4X write speed. But I don't know
> about their compatibility. When I tried to ask Teac about it,
> they wanted me to sign NDA. And I'm still trying to get from them,
> whether can I freely release the patches for driver if I sign NDA
> to make them.
Hmm, most modern drives supports the MMC commands for burning etc, but
unfortunally our scsi "worm" driver does use those, instead it has
intimate knowledge of drive specific commands.
The IDE drives supports MMC too, so the driver I'm doing should show
the way for SCSI too (I hope)...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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