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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.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jlemon From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) Subject: Re: One more try... CD-R writing from FreeBSD Message-ID: <jlemonDLovJz.J6K@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <neIKwIf@quack.kfu.com> <DLnEJJ.367@robkaos.ruhr.de> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:14:23 GMT Lines: 44 Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com In article <DLnEJJ.367@robkaos.ruhr.de>, Robert Schien <robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de> wrote: >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. I'm in the process of setting up a machine just for the purpose of archiving and retrieving old reports, so I would really, _REALLY_ like to see a CDR driver under FreeBSD. The machine in question will have an Adaptec 2940 controller, a Yamaha CDR-100 recorder, and the CDROM image will be written from a Barracuda disk. (This should be fast enough to keep up with the recording rate, right?) I would be willing to help test a driver after we get the machine (in the next month or so). If there is no driver, I'll have to fall back to DOS/Win to write out the image. (bleeetch) -- Jonathan