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[Pietro Cerutti]

On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >       I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform.
> >       Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to
> >       be?  In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners?
> >       Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC...  I'll 2-check.
> >
> >       thanks in advance,
> >
> >       gary
> >
> >
>
> So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD.
> One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two
> FreeBSD machines now is:
>
> acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04> at ata1-slave PIO4
>
> The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I
> replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great.
>
> -Mark
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Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver
for a dvd burner...
It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write
data to it..

Please correct me....


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