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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bulletproof UNIX CD Recording
Date: 4 Feb 1997 17:44:57 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5d7dbq$osb@innocence.interface-business.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
> Now since you're posting this in technically oriented newsgroups, and
> i'm incidentally also the maintainer of FreeBSD's worm driver, let's
> go into technical discussion. First, a couple of quotes from your
> Web Site.
Joerg: if you look at the picture the device (CD-Studio) is sitting in
front of a video screen and a couple of CD devices. I'm very familiar
with this device... it's Young Minds' CD-recorder front end. I don't know
whether DataDisc is Young Minds renamed, or they're reselling the device,
but it really does let you do a realtime task (CD recording) from a UNIX
box safely.
It's a cute gadget... it sits between your CD recorder and your computer. To
your computer it looks like an Exabyte 8500. You write the CD image to the
tape, then do an "mt fsf 1" and it automagically dumps the image to the
burner. It does a pretty good job, and they have excellent support policies.
I would recommend it.
The the GUI front end (mkdsk_mo) actually calls your system's "mt" command,
so if it doesn't run on FreeBSD I'd be much surprised.
But you should look at the horses mouth Young Minds does a much better job
of explaining what's going on at http://www.ymi.com/products/cdstudio.html .
But then they would, they were started by one of the blokes who worked on
the Rock Ridge extensions to the ISO 9660 format.
If this is some third party reseller spamming the newsgroups (like those
blokes who keep spamming everyone with ads for old versions of the FreeBSD
CDROM, to our periodic chagrin) then buy direct from Young Minds as well.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'