Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:28:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Johan Petersson <kjep@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-RW and tar Message-ID: <19990807202843.13819.rocketmail@web126.yahoomail.com>
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Hi people! This is my third attempt to send a mail to this list. The two others seem to be lost i space, so I'm trying from a different account. Sorry if anyone receives doubles. Anyway, what I'm trying to do is this; burn multi-volume tar files directly onto a CD-RW so I won't have to mount the CD to read the tar file. Firstly I create the tar files: $ tar -c -L 640000 -f drive2.tar /drive2 From another window I then rename the tar files so I get several files like drive2.tar.0, drive2.tar.1 etc. Then I burn the CD: $ cdrecord -v drive2.tar.0 and repeat as many times as needed. Now comes the problem. When I try to check the tar files: $ tar -t -M -f /dev/cd0c It reads on for a while on the first CD but stops part thru with a read error on /dev/cd0c. I've also tried using /dev/cd0a and reading from an IDE CDROM /dev/wcd0a and wcd0c but with the same result. Reading the tar files from the hard disk works fine. I really hope someone has any good ideas about how to do this since it would simplify things a lot not having to put the tar files on a "real" file system on the CD. This works though, I've tried it. I'm running 2.2.6 on a P-200 and the CD-RW is a Yamaha 4260 SCSI that works perfect otherwise. Regards Johan _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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