> > 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.

Does this affect DAT drives in the same way then or are they so slow that 
it doesn't matter? If I get a SCSI tape drive, is /dev/rst0 functional?
Any particular recommendations for tape drives?

> 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.

Does mkisofs exists in a set? It's not in cdtools or in any of the other
sets I've looked at.

> 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.

How about an R260? :-)

> > 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.

Would these drivers only allow you use msdos or could you put an ffs
partitions on it?

Stephen