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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.onenet.net!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD writer software? Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:07:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 53 Message-ID: <5dok90$lfs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E4vGKJ.LKp@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <5d0ik6$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E58GA8.7wL@fsa.bris.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35465 phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk (Tim) wrote: > Will there be support for any other CD-R in the near future, and does > anyone have any reccomendations for recorders? Not unless people implement it. Get me right, i've got a CD-R device, and won't likely buy a new one just to get better support for another drive. :-) Sure, if people contribute, i'll integrate it (and help them contributing). The Yamaha shouldn't be very difficult either. > In the UK recorders are still fairly expensive with the exception of the > Ricoh 1420 and Pilips CD2000 (if you can find one). I would love to see > support for the Ricoh as this drive is currently selling very cheaply and > comes with a 2Mb cache which supposedly helps keep up a constant stream > of data. I don't have the slightest clue about the Ricoh, but IIRC this one has a ``more weird'' protocol to follow, so it's perhaps the only CD-R device currently known that wouldn't fit quite right into the design of the worm(4) driver. (My remembrance might be faulty however.) > Will there be any problems running such a drive from an adaptec 1505 (no > DMA, aic driver)? It's a poor choice, not so much for it sitting on an ISA bus (you could use even an aged AHA-1540A or B successfully), but rather since it's a PIO-mode only controller. I can't tell you whether it works, but i simply wouldn't use such a thing at all. The CPU load is probably worse than with an IDE disk. > finally is there going to be a CD-R driver that can write in mode 2 format? > I have no idea what this means ... Neither do i, offhand. I think it's not very difficult to put the drive into that mode, and adding a hook to the driver. (I'll have to look at the specs for my burner for how to do this.) ISTR that it's just some `raw' data form, without ECC bytes etc, probably something that could be used for video data. > the disk, I don't even know whether a mode 2 disk can be read by FreeBSD. It's probably best to ask the people on the freebsd-multimedia list for this kind of questions. -- 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. ;-)