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From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: Re: One more try... CD-R writing from FreeBSD
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:09:18 GMT
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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