From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 6 23:45:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E4437B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (herbelot.net1.nerim.net [62.212.117.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD33743E9C for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:45:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB77kR0f027388; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:46:29 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Thierry Herbelot To: Ben Hockenhull , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vaio, firewire and DVD drive Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:45:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200212070845.37702.thierry@herbelot.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Le Saturday 07 December 2002 03:04, Ben Hockenhull a écrit : > Hi there, > > I have a Sony Vaio R505EC with a SlimDock that contains, among other > things, a DVDROM/CDRW drive. As I understand it, the connection for this > drive is firewire, but it doesn't show up in dmesg and I'm not sure why. > I'd like to at least use it as a cdrom drive, or as a CDRW. > Hello, I'm making here some tests with another VAIO, trying to read from an external firewire hard disk. So far, not much luck : I could not reliably read from nor write to the disk. I'm downloading Redhat to see if it's better there. TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message