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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!labinfo.iet.unipi.it!luigi From: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD writer software? Date: 11 Feb 1997 11:16:14 GMT Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dpkdu$ejo@serra.unipi.it> References: <E4vGKJ.LKp@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <5d0ik6$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E58GA8.7wL@fsa.bris.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: labinfo.iet.unipi.it Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35505 In article <E58GA8.7wL@fsa.bris.ac.uk>, phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk (Tim) writes: |> J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: |> : > What I'd like to know is if there is any software available for writing |> : > to CD. |> : |> : There is, in FreeBSD 2.2. |> : |> : See worm(4), wormcontrol(8), and /usr/share/examples/worm/. |> : |> |> Many thanks for the e-mail reply. |> |> I have a few more questions that I'd like to ask. |> Will there be support for any other CD-R in the near future, and does |> anyone have any reccomendations for recorders? |> |> 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. Unfortunately there is no docs available for the Ricoh. They are not responding to my requests, nor did they respond to another user from the US last october. So I guess we have to dump the Ricoh because of lack of support from manufacturer... Luigi -- -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________