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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!usenet From: Clint Wolff <clint_w@colorado.cirrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I use a Philips CDi 2000 CD-ROM writer? Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 09:29:16 -0600 Organization: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <325921CC.167EB0E7@colorado.cirrus.com> References: <530k66$qib@sanson.dit.upm.es> <536g5u$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: longs.colorado.cirrus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) J Wunsch wrote: ; ; jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) wrote: ; ; > I've seen that FreeBSD supports HP and some other CD-ROM writers ; > under 2.1.5, but doesn't seem to support a Philips CDi 2000, which ; > is what a friend of mine has. ; ; I've got a report that the actual drive for the Philips, HP, and Kodak ; products is the same. So i'm 99.99 % positive it will work. ; ; -- ; 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. ;-) The HP 4080i drive is an OEM version of the Philips CDD2000. I spoke with some engineers at HP (about a SCSI CDR chip we make) and they indicated the only differences were in the software that was bundled with the drive. I don't know for sure about the Kodak drive. I have never seen one to compare to the CDD2000 that is pieces in my office... clint -- Underscores added to return address to defeat advertising engines. clintw@colorado.cirrus.com