Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE CD-R on stable (was Re: CD writers as a backup medium) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808030052130.3105-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <35C51864.1233FFDC@kew.com>
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote:
> Ummm, semi-related question, are ONLY the SCSI CD-ROM burners supported? I
> happen to have ended up with my HP IDE CD-R burner on my FreeBSD box (with
> room for Windows if I have to boot back to it to burn CD-R's.)
Version 1.6 of cdrecord, in the ports, has support for mmc
compliant IDE burners. Though as CPU intensive as IDE is I would
imagine you'd run into trouble on a system that had a fraction of
the load that SCSI drives can tolerate.
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