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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!robkaos.ruhr.de!robsch From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Subject: Re: One more try... CD-R writing from FreeBSD X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Organization: Private System, Essen, Germany Message-ID: <DLnEJJ.367@robkaos.ruhr.de> References: <neIKwIf@quack.kfu.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:09:18 GMT Lines: 29 nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: >I don't know enough about SCSI to figure out how to use either >scsi(8) or scsi(3) in order to burn a CD-R worm disk. Has this >been done successfully under FreeBSD, and if not, the following >questions come to mind: >1. What would the general procedure be for taking either the >output of mkisofs or the output of dd if=/dev/rcd0c (where cd0 >is some other CD target) and having the HP 4020i burn it? I >take it there is more to it than just using dd and making sure to >keep up with the record rate of the writer. >2. Does this procedure generalize across different vendors of CD-R >writers? >3. Should I configure the HP (if I buy one) as a cd target, worm >target (I suspect this is correct), disk or unknown ? Can you configure the HP as a worm target? As far as I know the HP identifies itself as a CD-ROM (which is nonsense, IMO). It would be nice if you could change the SCSI type. >Thanks in advance. If I successfully write a CD, I'll post how I did >it. Of course, step 1 is buying the writer. :-) I'm in the same boat. I just don't know which CD-R to buy. Robert