>>Dan Killoran
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>>I think when a company sells CDRs, it's like what you would burn yourself?

>Hardly ever. Except perhaps very small outfits (I think maybe the
>NetBSD distribution, although I don't know for sure). Generally if
>it's one guy making & selling the stuff, it is probably CD-R, because
>it isn't economical to press fewer than about 1000 disks.
>But the pressed disks can be read by any machine, whereas the CD-Rs
>can only be read by slightly more recent ones.

I figure (rightly? wrongly?) that CDs advertised as CDRs are like what you would
burn yourself.  If you browse LSL (http://www.lsl.com), you find CDRs for
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and various Linux distributions.

Slackware (Linux) makes their own CD-ROMs, though LSL may possibly download the
ISO image files and burn CDRs.  Debian (Linux) don't make their own CDs.

I notice big price differences with NetBSD CD vendors.  Maybe the cheaper ones
are CDRs like what you would burn yourself?  I don't want to think of
downloading an ISO at 56K, though it might be feasible with cable or DSL.

>>Is the NEC 2x drive SCSI, IDE/ATAPI or other, proprietary like the original
>>Mitsumi?  Maybe you could check what the Mac OS Control Panel says?

>It's SCSI, not IDE. It is probably proprietary, since it won't run
>with Apple's driver.

Maybe NetBSD doesn't support this SCSI, or is it the CD-ROM?  I think you said
it worked under Mac OS?