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If there is anyone who ever got a parallel cd-rom reader to work, please
let me know how you did it, it could really solve my problem

Thanks!

Yves Deweerdt

Two reasons:

1) HP make great laser printers.  Their CD's are shite.  Stick to the people
who know about cd's - Phillips (Traxdata are re-badged phillips) or sony or
Plextor.

2)  Parallel ports were never designed to transfer data at the speeds
required for reliable CDROM usage.  You will have great problems with Buffer
Underrun errors (data transmitting too slow), and it is doubtful that you
will ever maintain the smooth data transfer rates required to write audio
data.  Either way you probably won't be able to write at more that 1x.

Stick to SCSI or IDE - preferrably (imho) SCSI as it is much much simpler,
if a little more expensive.

Furtle.

Quote:> I'm currently running FreeBSD 3.1. on a Pentium MMX with 2 parallel ports
> Now I'm trying to configure one of these ports for connecting a HP 7200
> external CD-rewriter to it.
> That's where the troubles begin, I really have no idea how I should do
> that! Can anyone help me out with this?
> How do I have to configure the kernel, what devices do I have to make,...?

> If there is anyone who ever got a parallel cd-rom reader to work, please
> let me know how you did it, it could really solve my problem

> Thanks!

> Yves Deweerdt