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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] CD Writer support...
Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:16:21 GMT
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Josh Lynch <tyme@nospam.visi.com> wrote:

>  I need to know which one's are supported by FreeBSD and if
> there's software out there to control it.

Plasmon RF4201, HP 4020i/6020i (the 6020 [without `i'] requires a
minor patch), Philips CDD2000/CDD2660.  Probably more that are
compatible to the mentioned.

> It needs to support ISO9660
> (obviously) with rockridge extensions for long filenames.

That's not a feature of the driver.  It's a feature of the mkisofs
program (third-party software) used to prepare the image you gonna
burn onto the disk.  Unlike certain other systems, FreeBSD supports a
strong layering in the functionality, divided into the device-driver
for low-level IO handling, utility programs to control the driver
(wormcontrol), and a user interface to handle all this.  The latter
isn't very mature by now, you can find it in /usr/share/examples/worm.

(There's also a port named cdwrite which follows another scheme.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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