From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 12:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16828 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:22:23 -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 MAA16794 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:21:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA24322 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA17150 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id VAA12250 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:10:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601112010.VAA12250@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: I have authorization to buy a CD-R drive.. Which one? :-) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:10:10 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601111015.FAA02463@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jan 11, 96 05:15:15 am 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 Peter Dufault wrote: > > Given the price and wide availability of the HP surestore 4020i (a > big stack at CompUSA at $999.00), I think that is one to support. > > The best way to proceed would be to let Joerg finish the preliminary > support for the "Plasmon" he has while tracking down the programmer > documentation for the Surestore. Then you can buy it and immediately > make some headway with it. Somebody (who's also interested in FreeBSD CD-R) wrote me that he's got the HP docs from some FTP or WWW site. I don't see much difference to using the Plasmon, they are about the same price region. If Jordan's in a hurry, he should better get a Plasmon since my predictions about when it might be ready are a bit more accurate than for the HP. :-) I'm positive that once the driver is in a better shape, supporting the HP ain't a big deal. Perhaps Jordan should buy it and have it shipped to Peter first... ;-) -- 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. ;-)