Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:53:19 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: Can't burn cds Message-ID: <46A9EABF.8010400@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5882FC10-AAAB-4CBF-93C0-5A114A09D053@brooknet.com.au> References: <2C3AFA6026995677B921EC78@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070726225901.GA12734@tcbug.org> <DE7704AD7CB9AE759E477724@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <5882FC10-AAAB-4CBF-93C0-5A114A09D053@brooknet.com.au>
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Sam Lawrance wrote: > > On 27/07/2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: >>> >>> camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only >>> knows about SCSI. >>> >> So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? > > The device listed by camcontrol seems to be an external hard drive. > > That said, I think it's possible for camcontrol to talk to IDE devices > via atapicam. according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html if you dont want to use burncd for burning CDROMSs you need to use atapicam (section 18.6.9) either kldload atapicam or add the following line to the /boot/loader.conf file: atapicam_load="YES" then, reboot your machine. As root, you can run the following command to get the SCSI address of the burner: # camcontrol devlist This didnt work for me last time I tried for some reason but I usually just use burncd anyway. Vince > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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