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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there software for CD-R?
Date: 5 May 1996 15:50:05 GMT
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ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp (Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji) wrote:

> I wonder if there's software around that writes unix
> a file system onto CD-R in ISO format so that Sun, BSD,
> or whatever may read it. I am thinkin of a cheap thing
> that will work on the CD-R drive for PCs (some $1,000
> thing, that is.)

Yggdrassil's mkisofs(1) has been in FreeBSD for quite some time now.
It's actual usage is a bit tricky, but once you figured out (and
recorded the various flags in a script), it sorta works.

FreeBSD-current (including the March SNAP) has early support for CD-R
devices.  I consider it between alpha and beta quality, but i know
it's working for several people.  The HP 4020i and the Plasmon RF4100
are currently supported, but the code is written to be extensible, so
if you've got another device _and_ the SCSI reference manual from its
vendor, it should be a matter of a few hours to add support for it.
(Note that Yamaha seems to be picky in giving away their document-
ation.  Unless you're pretty sure that you will get it from them,
better buy something else.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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