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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Writing CD-R under FreeBSD, Linux or SunOS ?
Date: 31 Dec 1995 10:15:09 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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toehser@cais.cais.com (Tom Oehser) writes:
> >	But how about FREEBSD ? Does cdwrite work under FREEBSD ?
> 
> Well, it comes as source, methinks, so, sure it will work, with, perhaps,
> some adjustments...

No.  We don't support this you-gotta-do-all-yourself-bit-by-bit
lowest-level SCSI interface.  We've got scsi(3) and even scsi(8)
instead.  (Thanks to Peter Dufault.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)