Subject: Re: CD Writer Software
To: None <laine@morningstar.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: current-users
Date: 04/19/1996 14:19:24
>While everyone is talking about CDROM formats:
>
>Is there any CD writing software that runs on NetBSD? We are looking
>around at CD Writers, but most of them only have software that runs on
>Win95. Also, a couple of the places apparently said that this software
>produces CDs that "aren't readable by Unix systems" (of course, they've
>probably never even seen a Unix system, probably think its one that uses
>bushings instead of bearings...).

You might talk to the FreeBSD gang.  I know they've done a lot of work with
CD-ROM writers, and they might even master some of the FreeBSD CD's using
FreeBSD (I see that they have a WORM driver in their SCSI source tree).  I
also remember Jordan Hubbard referring to mkisofs as the "spawn of the devil",
so he seems to have some familiarity with it :-)

I know that some of their CD-ROM writing stuff uses the FreeBSD real-time
scheduling priorities, which aren't available under NetBSD.  Presumably
if you have a lightly-loaded machine, it might be enough.

--Ken

--Ken