Plextor 716SA DVD

[Jamie Bowden]

On 3/26/06, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2006.03.25 18:15:00 +1100, Alastair G. Hogge wrote:
> > Is the above supported on a ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe mainboard? I've tried
> > plugging the device into either the nForce4 or Silicon Image 3132 SATA
> > connectors but the device doesn't show up. I've also tried using my Highpoint
> > RockedRAID 2320 card to detect the DVD drive.
>
> I don't think SATA CD/DVD drives are supported yet.  I know sos@ has
> been working on adding support, but I don't know how close he is to
> committing it.

Seems fine from here tracking RELELNG_6:

9:32am yakko  /home/jamie %uname -a
FreeBSD yakko 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Apr  1
12:45:57 EST 2006     jamie at yakko:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/yakko  i386

9:32am yakko  /home/jamie %dmesg | grep acd
acd0: DVDR <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D/1.22> at ata1-slave UDMA33
acd1: DVDR <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A/1.09> at ata3-master SATA150

This drive replaced a pair of older Plextor SCSI drives that I've had
for almost 8 years now (UltraPlex 40Max and PlexWriter 8/20).

I haven't tried to burn anything under FreeBSD, but it acts as a
CD/DVD ROM just fine.

Jamie Bowden
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