From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 28 06:21:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05118 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 06:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA05062 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 06:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA19334; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:20:51 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA06640; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:20:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA01905; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609281300.PAA01905@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: CD-R Drive To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:00:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com In-Reply-To: <199609192228.AA226642138@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Sep 19, 96 03:28:57 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 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. ;-)