ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >How standard are DVD writers these days? In the sense
> >of: can I expect an ATAPI DVDwriter to 'just work'
> >with FreeBSD or are there brands/models to avoid or
> >to prefer?
> >
> >Any experiences with a NEC ND-2510 ?  Good/bad?
> 
> Bought one of those a couble of weeks ago, it has burnt CDR, CDRW, 
> DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW media for me with no problems at all. Havn't tried 

SOunds good...

> duallayer media yet as I havn't been able to locate any that didn't cost 
> an arm and a leg :)
> Oh, its slow for ripping as they have put in a lock for that, you can 
> get around it by loading new firmware that removes that lock (and region 
> locking as well if needed) from here http://tdb.rpc1.org/index.htm

Ah, have you tried that f/w?

thanks a bunch!
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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org