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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CDROM recorder
Date: 30 Nov 1995 08:43:27 GMT
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gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes:

> Well, there is the 'cdwrite' program recently mentioned on
> comp.os.linux.announce.  It supports the new HP CD-R's.  But, I imagine
> Its GiPpLeware... :)

Yes, and it uses raw SCSI command at user level.  To the contrary,
FreeBSD comes with a worm driver, so it would seem more logical to put
the SCSI low-level stuff there.  Ideally, one could burn the CD with
dd(1) or (more preferable) team(1).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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