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    SubjectRe: CD/DVD record
    On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

    > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:07:09 -0400
    > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
    >
    > > > Hat trick on the Good Point(tm) front. Agreed!
    > > >
    > > > Well then I may go and look into cd recording then...hmm...
    > >
    > > I hate to say it, but why reinvent the wheel? I'm sure that if Jorg
    > > doesn't support new technology there will be a project, either on
    > > sourceforge or freestanding, to create OpenCDburn or some such. It would
    > > be very hard to find someone as technically good as Jorg in this area,
    > > [...]
    >
    > Actually this is only FUD spread by Joerg. He is definitely not the only man on
    > this planet knowing how to program CD/DVD burning equipment.

    Good, glad you have a supply of SCSI gurus who want to dedicate all their
    spare time to maintaining OS software. Joerg has been at this for years,
    and I think that while identifying technically competent people is
    possible, I doubt there's a big overlap with the set of people who have
    nothing better to do with their spare time. When I said "find" I certainly
    meant both qualifications.
    >
    > Generally cdrecord has one big deficiency, which obviously was intended:
    > it does not allow medium skilled programmers from drive _vendors_ to add
    > support for their latest hardware easily. Everyone has to beg Joerg, which
    > obviously increased his ego dramatically over the years.
    > It would be a lot better to start off a new project where vendors (or anybody
    > with skill and will) can contribute more easily, i.e. something that is truely
    > _open_.

    A nice idea, but in truth if a vendor wants support in cdrecord a tech ref
    and sample unit will almost certainly do it. I'd love to have support for
    HD_BURN in Linux, but Joerg can't seem to get the info needed. I doubt
    that people who won't release the info will trouble to write the driver.

    --
    bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
    CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
    Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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