From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 22 6:47:54 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 E2CE537B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5607443E3B for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 300) id 10B929B04; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:47:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0855D5D0C; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:47:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:47:49 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Inge Thorin Eidsther Cc: Subject: Re: Re: Freecom Traveller II CD-RW supported in 4.6? In-Reply-To: <20020821231019.417136ce.ies@runbox.no> Message-ID: <20020822143006.T37701-100000@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: > > Appreciate your hints, thank you very much. > I didn't know the drive was ATAPI, that is not > mentioned on the product web page. The proprietary interface on the back of their various drives is just a buffered IDE interface on a different connector: the cables then adapt that to whatever interface is required. The larger drives are just a standard 5.25" drive in a case with an adapter board and PSU - you can unplug the supplied drive and substitute any standard IDE device (I've used this on occasion to attach an external hard drive to a laptop). > However, are you aware of any similar drives from Freecom > or other manufacturer that _are_ SCSI? It would be nice to use > cdrecord because it is more full-featured, and several front-ends > exist for it... All the slimline (15mm) drive mechanisms that I've ever seen have been ATAPI - they're made to fit internally on laptops, where SCSI is never used. The Freecom (and similar) products are just these drives in external cases. Full-size SCSI drives are readily available - I have one that I used to use in conjunction with an adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card - but they're much bigger and heavier than the Freecom product (my one is in a steel case!). > If the atapi-cam patch(es?) work nicely around this, then I > shall not complain. I've not used them, but other people have reported good results with cdrecord on this mailing list. > I don't know (yet) how to do the patching, or http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/ > what CAM is, but I'll get there, eventually... man 4 cam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message