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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!news.vimcom.msk.ru!not-for-mail From: serge@news.vimcom.msk.ru (Sergey Hlupnov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I use a Philips CDi 2000 CD-ROM writer? Date: 23 Oct 1996 22:37:32 +0300 Organization: TAM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <54ls5s$nuk@news.vimcom.msk.ru> References: <530k66$qib@sanson.dit.upm.es> <536g5u$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <325921CC.167EB0E7@colorado.cirrus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.vimcom.msk.ru X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : ; > I've seen that FreeBSD supports HP and some other CD-ROM writers : ; > under 2.1.5, but doesn't seem to support a Philips CDi 2000, which : ; > is what a friend of mine has. : ; : ; I've got a report that the actual drive for the Philips, HP, and Kodak : ; products is the same. So i'm 99.99 % positive it will work. : ; Any other positive reports ? :-) Especially about RCD-1000 ( Pinnacle ) What other CD-R's will FreeBSD-compatible in future ? I can't find any info on HP4080i. HP web-site, HP resellers know only about HP4020i. What is difference... or they are the same ? : The HP 4080i drive is an OEM version of the Philips CDD2000. I spoke : with some : engineers at HP (about a SCSI CDR chip we make) and they indicated the : only : differences were in the software that was bundled with the drive. I : don't know : for sure about the Kodak drive. I have never seen one to compare to the : CDD2000 : that is pieces in my office...