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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: 1 Jan 1996 12:11:32 GMT
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toehser@cais.cais.com (Tom Oehser) writes:

> >No.  We don't support this you-gotta-do-all-yourself-bit-by-bit
> 
> Well, actually, I was tongue-in-cheek with the phrase 'some adjustments'...
> they might, of course, include re-writing parts of cdwrite and FREEBSD...

As i wrote in another article: i will start rewriting it as a Perl
script first (using scsi(8) and dd(1)), and once it works, i'll look
into how it could be stuffed into a kernel interface.  It's likely
that the final solution will consist of a wormcontrol(8) command, and
a dd(1) to actually write the data.  Perhaps a wrapper like cdwrite(1)
is useful, too.

Btw., FreeBSD has got rtprio(8), which might be useful for this
purpose.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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