I had previously tried CD recording under Haiku with the BeOS port of CDRecord, but that didn't work. Then I stumbled upon a Haiku port of CDRecord by porter extrodinaire Francois Revol (mmu_man)!
Simply install the CDRecord binary in /home/config/bin. I also used a front-end (BurnItNow) that actually worked quite well! Testing under Vmware with a CDRW, here you can see that the drive is detected:
Woot, USB guru Michael Lotz (mmlr) recently committed (rev24780) his USB disk driver to the image, meaning that we should all test out Haiku with SD cards, external hard drives, cameras, and the like and fill our hardware database
Personally, I'm quite excited to try installing Haiku on an SD card on my EEEPC, and seeing if it works, but I have to download all the sources again and rebuild an image - will report on that later on -- update: tried the new image, but it still won't detect or boot from the SD card :(
We'd like to congratulate the Bezilla team for winning the April 1st Thank You Award! This poll saw the most votes ever, at 86, and was very close between Bezilla, Bernd Korz, and Francois Revol. Alas, based on public opinion, we can only have one winner. The Bezilla team has consistently cranked out Mozilla builds, eventhough BeOS went under years ago, they made sure that BeOS users had a suitable and up-to-date browsing experience paving the way through to Haiku :) Well done Bezilla, and thanks again for your efforts all of these years! I'll forward the award tomorrow.
Today mmlr committed some code for a 'simple' usb_disk driver that should allow external drives and flash media to work in Haiku. Hotplugging isn't supported currently, and it hasn't been added to the image yet. Moving right along though, perhaps soon we'll be able to use/boot off flash media and external hard drives in Haiku!
Sometimes it's quite cool to see how well Haiku works with its binary compatibility. I recently decided to try USB Deskbar View from the year 2003 on Haiku. Amazingly, it works with Haiku's stack (USB Commander doesn't). What a great little application, just goes to show you there are some real gems out there still despite their age!
When you plug in a USB device, it shows you a little checkmark in Haiku's taskbar, when you unplug it, it shows an x. Not only that, it also shows you speciic information about the device. USB devices are extremely common these days, I know myself, I don't have enough USB ports on my machines for the number of USB devices I own. It's always nice to get some kind of feedback from your system when you
plug in a device, just so you know it's actually working. To me, it would seem that an application like this should deserve a pemanent place in the taskbar (or in the desktop applets folder) and at a cost of 100kb, I think something like this would be a very worthy addition to Haiku (sources are included in the package)...
Now I ponder, if someone actually wrote a driver for my Isight, would it work in CodyCam? hehe -see the screenshot below. By the way, using the Superpack under Vmware would be a great way to test out your USB devices under Haiku (and add them to our database of course) if you can't get Haiku working under actual hardware.
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