In message <200101300445.f0U4jgh01333@shed11.mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Duncan McEwan writ
es:
>We've just got one of these drives.

It's pretty awful.  It appears to be a fairly lame Philips drive.

>   cd1(umass0:1:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 00 00 10 01 00
>       SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
>        ASC/ASCQ:  Invalid Command Operation Code

Hmm.  I didn't try that.  What I did try was "cdrecord".

>  # cdrecord -v dev=0,1,0 foo.cd
>  Cdrecord 1.9 (i386-unknown-netbsd1.5E) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jorg Schillin

Hmm.  Try a newer one; I had it "work", almost.

>Has anyone got this, or any other USB CD-RW drive to work?

Not that I know of.  I was able to burn a CD, but not able to fixate it;
however, when I took it to another drive and just ran "-fixate", the
resulting CD worked fine.

Even under MacOS I've never gotten that thing to mount as a drive, although
it appears to burn CD's fine over there.

-s