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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!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!news.id.net!news.cic.net!wolverine.hq.cic.net!news.worldpath.net!iag.net!newspump.sol.net!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet From: stox@dcdkc.fnal.GOV (Ken Stox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I use a Philips CDi 2000 CD-ROM writer? Date: 17 Oct 1996 19:11:09 GMT Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5460cd$fok@fnnews.fnal.gov> References: <530k66$qib@sanson.dit.upm.es> <536g5u$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcdkc.fnal.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 I can state that with a few minor changes to the kernel, 2.2-current supports this drive just fine. My first attempt produced a working CD! Basically, the changes involve duplicating the settings for the HP-4020i for the Philips. In article <536g5u$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > 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. >