On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. > > Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to > > be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? > > Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > gary > > > > > > So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. > One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two > FreeBSD machines now is: > > acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04> at ata1-slave PIO4 > > The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I > replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. > > -Mark > > -- > GnuPG Public Key: > http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc > > Internet Radio: > Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com > Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net > > IRC: > MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) >
Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me.... -- Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal <www.beansidhe.ch> Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"