Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 11:45:05 -0500 From: David Deaven <deaven@execpc.com> To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM Read/Write drive Message-ID: <199808021645.LAA03640@pop02.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:22:36 CDT." <199807281622.LAA22662@chrome.jdl.com>
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I use a SCSI CDRW drive with FreeBSD. The "cdrecord" port works great for writing CDs. Note that your drive will be recognized as a CD-ROM and work just fine for that, but to write to it you need special software (like cdrecord). CDRs are not capable of doing block-at-a-time writes, like a disk drive or optical drive. You can dump a whole filesystem directly to a CDRW using cdrecord and mkisofs: mkisofs -a -l -L -R -r <filesys> | \ (sleep 300; cdrecord -v speed=2 -datadev=XXX -) the sleep allows mkisofs time to work through creating the TOC and be able to provide a continuous stream of data to the recorder. cdrecord also allows you to make audio CDs with no problem. Good luck! >I've stumbled onto a CD-R drive that I'd like to thunk >into my FreeBSD box. I know little about it and haven't >the slightest clue what SW I need for it. > >This is an external "Smart and Friendly" CD-R 2006 Plus. >It's got a normal centronics-like SCSI connection with >external terminator. > >I think I'm going to plug it in along side my external >SCSI 4mm HP Jetstore 2000 tape drive. > >Am I confused to think that the hardware aspects of this >should "Just Work"? What, if any, SW will I need? I'd >like to construct a large file system and thunk a whole >bunch of stuff like tar files onto a CD and be able to >mount it as a file system later. Things like that. >Suggestions? I don't have a clue where to even begin. > >As a last resort, I could instead move all this SCSI >crud to a Winblows 95 box and do it there if needed. > >Thanks, >jdl > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------- David Deaven deaven@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~deaven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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