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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Re-writable CDROM support ?
Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:30:31 GMT
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stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk (Stuart Broderick) wrote:

> Can a Panasonic PD Rewritable CDROM be used with FreeBSD (and/or Linux
> - if anyone knows)  for both writing CDROMs [...]

Certainly not.  There's CD-R support in the 2.2-current system line
(and also in 2.1.5, though not that useful as in -current), but i've
never heard about the Panasonic device.  If you could get the specs,
and are willing to add support for it, i'm willing to assist you in
this process.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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