Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:54:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: CD/DVD record |
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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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