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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 1995 02:26:55 -0400
From:      mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, peter@nmti.com
Subject:   Re: Help! Pinnacle Micro Recordable CD!
Message-ID:  <v01520b02abbbad66bd4e@[192.245.33.12]>

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>> AIEEEEEEEEEE!
>>
>> Our hardware guy just dropped this off on me, along with the comment "I guess
>> we should have asked you before buying this".
>>
>> No kidding. It looks irretreivably DOS/Windows-ish.
>
>Looks like Peter Dufault is your only man! :-)
>
>> Any way to use FreeBSD or something similar to hook this up to a real O/S,
>> or will we have to add this to the growing collection of dedicated Windows
>> boxes collecting like DDT high in the corporate food chain?
>
>Have you tried scsi(1) for whacking commands at it?  I assume it
>documents some of them in the tech specs?
>
>                                                Jordan

Actually, I have one as well (the Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000).  You can get
Windows or Macintosh s/w to write to it.

I've never hooked the thing up to a FreeBSD box before.  I've got about 10
blanks laying here, but at $15 per blank I'm afraid of wasting $150 to find
out that I used the wrong 'disklabel' option, or the wrong 'newfs'
parameter.  I would be very willing to test out the worm code if someone is
in for a small amount of hand holding.  :)



-Mark Taylor
mtaylor@cybernet.com





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