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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
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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
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