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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual use of HP CD-R
Date: 5 Sep 1996 07:12:43 GMT
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Rick Lotoczky <ir001553@interramp.com> wrote:

> I have a HP 4020i and would like to be able to mount it as a standard
> CD (i.e. /dev/cd0a) and be able to use it as a WORM (/dev/rworm0)
> without changing the kernel and rebooting.  Is this possible?

Not unless you fix the worm driver. :-}

(Read this: ``It is supposed to allow reading the CD as well, but it
doesn't work right now, and nobody bothered so far to find out why.'')

-- 
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. ;-)