From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 14:57:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA15220 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA15214 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:57:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA25695; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:02:57 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199601172302.SAA25695@hda.com> Subject: Re: HP CD Recorder anyone?? To: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:02:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9601171928.AA20972@squid.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jan 17, 96 02:28:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was just looking at this HP SureStore CD-Writer on the HP web page and > I had a few questions: > > What are the chances that this thing could be made to work with FreeBSD? > This drive seems very nice, and there is extensive programming > documentation on the HP web page, so I would think it would be a good > thing to support. Also, does anybody know where you can get the drive > mail-order for under $1000?? > > When you create a cdrom (when such a thing is possible...), I guess you > make a directory tree like you want on the CD, then use mkisofs to > generate an image file, then write this to the disk. Is this correct? > (i.e. Will I need 1.2GB free to make a 600Meg CDROM??) Jordan is buying an HP SureStore. Joerg already has another CDROM recorder (a "Plasmon" I think) and a perl script to put something on the disk as a proof of concept. So the SureStore is a SureBet to be supported "real soon now". I believe you're pretty much correct about the process. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267