Subject: Re: How to use CR-Writer?
To: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/22/1997 14:45:24
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:28:48 +0100 
 Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

 > I borrowed a CR-Writer (Phillips CDD2000) from a friend, and i
 > wonder if i can
 > make any use of it under NetBSD. This is on i386 w/ a A2940 as a
 > SCSI-controller, if that matters.
 > 
 > (Please CC: me your answers as O'm not on this list!)

I've got a CD-R frob that I'd like to make work, too.  You have to
send a special command to set up the format for the disc before you
do any writing, and then the writing is, as I understand it, time
critical; you can't have jitter.

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