On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, S.J. Borrill wrote:

> Has anyone got any experience of CD writers under RISC BSD (or even RISC
> OS at a push)? Are there any particular ones recommended or any caveats in
> their use?

You cannot do it under RiscBSD running on a RiscPC due to the speed of the
drivers unless you have a writer with a build in HD.
You can do it from RISC OS but the ISO form program is not wonderful. In
particular it does not support rockridge etc. (Talk to Dave about !ISOForm
for more info, I think he was having loads of problems with it last week)
What you could do is use mkisofs under RiscBSD to generate the ISO image
and then use RISCOS to actually write the image to the CDROM.

I normally use mkisofs to generate images and then either single user
Linux (could use NetBSD as well) on a pentium or an SGI to write the
image.

> Also, I see that ARM Linux has support for parallel Zip drives. Has there
> been any progress on parallel Zip drivers for RiscBSD?
No actual progress. I ahve really been waiting for NetBSD/i386 to do
something first as I thought the would be a driver for that by now.
I believe FreeBSD has a driver that could probably be adapted.
However last time I was talking to Philip (who wrote the Linux one) he
said he would be prepared to release a version under a BSD style licence
so that we could utilise the code so once he has it stable and reliable we
may look at integrating it.

Cheers,
				Mark