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From: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD writer software?
Date: 24 Feb 1997 09:56:28 GMT
Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa
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In article <5dok90$lfs@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
|> phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk (Tim) wrote:
|> 
|> > Will there be support for any other CD-R in the near future, and does 
|> > anyone have any reccomendations for recorders?
...
|> > In the UK recorders are still fairly expensive with the exception of the 
|> > Ricoh 1420 and Pilips CD2000 (if you can find one). I would love to see 
|> > support for the Ricoh as this drive is currently selling very cheaply and 
|> > comes with a 2Mb cache which supposedly helps keep up a constant stream 
|> > of data.
|> 
|> I don't have the slightest clue about the Ricoh, but IIRC this one has

The people from Ricoh eventually replied to my request (took about 3
weeks, by email!) and said they do _not_ supply programming specs. So I
returned my unit and got a Philips instead.

	Luigi
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