Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com Subject: Re: CD-R Drive Message-ID: <199609281300.PAA01905@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199609192228.AA226642138@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Sep 19, 96 03:28:57 pm"
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As Darryl Okahata wrote: > While the HP CD-R works fine with 2.2-current, it doesn't work > with FreeBSD 2.1.5, "out-of-the-box". To get it to work with 2.1.5, you > supposedly have to apply a patch to 2.1.5. ...except there's no such patch really available. Nobody ever got round to create a working patch for it. However, the Plasmon devices, while technically rather similar to the HP and Philips drives, have a slightly different firmware so they should even work along with 2.1.5 as long as you don't accidentally put a CD-ROM (or fixated CD-R) into the drive at boot time (in which case these drives also claim to be a CD-ROM, as opposed to a WORM). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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