From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 11 01:20:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA27334 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 01:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deputy.pavilion.co.uk (deputy.pavilion.co.uk [194.242.128.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA27286 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 01:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup2-01.pavilion.co.uk (dialup2-01.pavilion.co.uk [194.242.131.129]) by deputy.pavilion.co.uk (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id JAA20408 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:16:54 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199610110816.JAA20408@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> X-Sender: aledm@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:43:55 +0100 To: hardware@freebsd.org From: Aled Morris Subject: Panasonic OD/CD-ROM drive Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As you may know, Panasonic make a combined rewriteable optical drive and CD-ROM reader, SCSI, which sells in the UK for (equivalent) US$600. Optical media hold 650MB for US$60. I'm sure these are expensive compared to native US pricing, but that's life. Slow too, with 165ms seek (compared to Jaz 12ms, but I imagine only using it for backups). Before I spend money on one of these, can anyone tell me if it is likely to work? i.e. will it work as a SCSI CD-ROM? Which device would I use? sd(4)? cd(4)? Aled -- telephone +44 973 207987 O-