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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: One more try... CD-R writing from FreeBSD Date: 24 Jan 1996 09:30:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4e4u8j$a4d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <neIKwIf@quack.kfu.com> <DLnEJJ.367@robkaos.ruhr.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) writes: > >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. It needs an ``override'' record in scsiconf.c. This is also true for my Plasmon, since it identifies itself as a CD-ROM if there's a ROM in the drive at INQUIRY time. (Without a disk, or with a CD-R, it claims to be a WORM, however.) -- 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. ;-)