Geekboy(Wizard)'s Journal: DXR3 and DVD drive

I ordered a DXR3 and a Creative 6x DVD drive from eBay, and it arrived yesterday. I put them into my FreeBSD system, and it boots. I havn't gotten to test the DXR3, but I think I have to add drivers for it. I'm working on getting the DVD drive to access DVD disks, but I think I'm not sending it the right paramaters. Spend about 30 minutes, including installing the hardware, so I'll spend some real time dealing with it this weekend.

FreeBSD 4.5 was tagged -RELEASE today, so I'm going to CVSup the source, and upgrade my machine. I'm having problems with the make installworld part on /bin/sh, but I think that's tree unstability, I'll delete /usr/src, then CVSup tonight, and try it again.

I saw the article on Slashdot about 1TB for $5k, and I'm seiously thinking about it. We have tons of MP3's, and DiVX movies, and that will fill up the 20G drive that is storing the information right now.