Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:47:49 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Inge Thorin Eidsther <ies@runbox.no> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: Freecom Traveller II CD-RW supported in 4.6? Message-ID: <20020822143006.T37701-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020821231019.417136ce.ies@runbox.no>
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Inge Thorin Eidsther wrote: > > Appreciate your hints, thank you very much. > I didn't know the drive was ATAPI, that is not > mentioned on the product web page. The proprietary interface on the back of their various drives is just a buffered IDE interface on a different connector: the cables then adapt that to whatever interface is required. The larger drives are just a standard 5.25" drive in a case with an adapter board and PSU - you can unplug the supplied drive and substitute any standard IDE device (I've used this on occasion to attach an external hard drive to a laptop). > However, are you aware of any similar drives from Freecom > or other manufacturer that _are_ SCSI? It would be nice to use > cdrecord because it is more full-featured, and several front-ends > exist for it... All the slimline (15mm) drive mechanisms that I've ever seen have been ATAPI - they're made to fit internally on laptops, where SCSI is never used. The Freecom (and similar) products are just these drives in external cases. Full-size SCSI drives are readily available - I have one that I used to use in conjunction with an adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card - but they're much bigger and heavier than the Freecom product (my one is in a steel case!). > If the atapi-cam patch(es?) work nicely around this, then I > shall not complain. I've not used them, but other people have reported good results with cdrecord on this mailing list. > I don't know (yet) how to do the patching, or http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/ > what CAM is, but I'll get there, eventually... man 4 cam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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