From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 00:53:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA11514 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA11483 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA24553; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:52:41 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA12009; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:52:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA10689; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:42:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601110842.JAA10689@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: I have authorization to buy a CD-R drive.. Which one? :-) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:42:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8393.821324256@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 10, 96 05:37:36 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So, the only question is: Which model? I'd like to buy one of the > cheaper models, like the new HP, I just don't have any part numbers to > pass on to our local hardware vendor. For certainly very apparent reasons :), i would recommend you the Plasmon RF4100 (or successor). Technically, it's comparable to the cheap HP drives, i think our drive was ~ 1800 DM, but computer parts are usually a bit more expensive here. It comes with 2 MB cache, and you can stuff up to 32 MB into it. For certain reasons, i tend to believe that this drive will be the first CD-R officially supported by FreeBSD. :-) You could even use the hacky Perl script i've been posting, after a few minor kernel fixes i have yet to commit. It doesn't do very much yet, but allows you to burn just a single data track. Please, make sure you've got team(1) installed before starting it. -- 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. ;-)