From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 2: 8:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsp7.ee.uct.ac.za (dsp7.ee.uct.ac.za [137.158.135.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B2614DEC for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicolls@dsp7.ee.uct.ac.za) Received: (from nicolls@localhost) by dsp7.ee.uct.ac.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA57677 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:05:49 GMT (envelope-from nicolls) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:05:49 +0200 (SAST) Organization: University of Cape Town From: Fred Nicolls To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multisession CDs on ATAPI writer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm almost afraid to mention ATAPI and CD-writer in the same sentence. An *extensive* search leads me to believe that FreeBSD and ATAPI writers are not friends at the moment - hopefully that will change soon. The common concensus (unanimous?) is that the burndata and burnaudio scripts in /usr/share/examples/atapi are the way to go for now. I've tried them, and they both work for me (quite nicely, actually). But only for writing single-session CDs. Has anybody used them for writing multisession CDs? Had any luck? When I try to write to a CD which has already had a session written to it, the dd command in the script fails with dd: /dev/racd0c: Input/output error The first session of the disk was fixated with the onp option, and my writer does support multisession (HP 8100). While I'm asking, does anybody know how one would extract the multisession information from a CD which has already had sessions written to it? The commonly-cited suggestion "cdrecord -msinfo" is not appropriate in this case, since the writer is not (and does not act like) SCSI. By the way, I'm running 3.2-RELEASE. Thanks, Fred --- Frederick Nicolls Digital Image Processing Laboratory Tel: +27 21 650 3466 Department of Electrical Engineering Fax: +27 21 650 3465 University of Cape Town To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message