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Re: CDR
Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> We are considering purchasing a recordable CD ROM drive. The primary
> requirement is the Linux 2.0.x support.
>
> According to the perfect Unix CD writer compatibility list
> (http://www.shop.de/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl) by winni@xpilot.org, there
> are quite a number of such devices supported; each having different
> characteristics and a different software support level (there are only
> two programs in Linux for that, but they seem to be quite different,
> since most devices only support one of them).
>
> Therefore, the question is the following: What device would you
> suggest to buy, and what device you wouldn't suggest. Please feel free
> to share your experience or even some net rumors. ;-)
>
> thanks in advance,
> borik
> __
> Boris D. Beletsky borik@bfr.co.il
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there is a kernel patch for 2.0.30-32 ( i dont know if it is corrected in
2.0.33)
to let cdrecord work on atapi cdwriters. note that the new cdwriters,
both scsi and atapi, use scsi3-mmc which is only supported by the last
beta
of cdrecord ( i think its 1.6.7 but not sure ).
i know the last version, with the kernel patch work for both
hp cd-rw 7100 ( only for internal drive, for all i know ) -> which is
atapi
and ricoh cd-rw mp6200S ( i think that is what is called ) which is scsi.
note that both (and others) have packet writing ability.
support under M$-windows:
both are shipped with direct-cd ( which isues a lot of problems:
it uses iso9660 level 3 compatibility which is not supported by either MS
nor Linux ( so you can not read files that are more then ~0.5Mb) and if
you
fill the cd and try to close it, it will tell you there is not enough
space left
,so it will leave it in udf format which is again not supported, and from
my
experiance slower )
i think ricoh is shipped also with easy-cd pro.
as i know. firmwere 1.0 for both has bugs:
hp can not do Disc-At-Once ( it creates empty cds)
ricoh has problems extracting audio if not starts at 2 second boundry
(which is the red-book standard).
regards
Erez
- References:
- CDR
- From: "Boris D. Beletsky" <borik@isracom.net.il>