Re: drivers for HP optical

Dale Harris (rodmur@maybe.org)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:07:59 -0700

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 12:16:17AM +0000, Jens Axboe elucidated:
> On Mon, Dec 06 1999, Dale Harris wrote:
> > Anyone know of drivers in Linux for the HP SureStore Optical drives?
>
> Aren't these just SCSI devices (I haven't checked)? If so, they should
> work with sd.
>

Probably, the only thing that I thought would cause a problem is flipping
the media, you can write to both sides. Also the blocks of the magneto
optical have to be blanked. 

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