From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jan 28 04:57:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA29008 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 04:57:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 04:57:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601281257.EAA29008@freefall.freebsd.org> From: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk To: undisclosed-recipients:; Hi all, i've just checked in the vastly revamped worm driver. The API has been totally restructured, and the usage does now almost resemble the other SCSI drivers, with the minor exception that you are required to tell the driver about your intentions with respect to the CD-R you are about to burn. There's a wormcontrol(8) utility (usr.sbin/wormcontrol) as well for this. The driver has by now only been tested on a heavily tweaked 2.0.5R system against a Plasmon RF4100 recorder. However, note that this driver is based on some other recent changes in the SCSI code, so you would have a hard time backporting it to 2.1R. Usage of -current is recommended. Fitting hooks for other burners should not be too difficult, but you would best do this only with a certain understanding of the SCSI command-level protocol, and with a SCSI reference manual for your drive. Chances are good that HP or Philips drives could be easily cloned from the Plasmon part, since they are rather similar. Other drives will certainly require more work. There are still a lot of bugs in it, and i consider the driver still highly experimental. Suggestions and discussion about the archi- tecture are welcome. -- 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. ;-) ------- End of Forwarded Message From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jan 28 06:15:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA07126 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 06:15:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 06:15:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601281415.GAA07126@freefall.freebsd.org> From: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk To: undisclosed-recipients:; Hi all, i've just checked in the vastly revamped worm driver. The API has been totally restructured, and the usage does now almost resemble the other SCSI drivers, with the minor exception that you are required to tell the driver about your intentions with respect to the CD-R you are about to burn. There's a wormcontrol(8) utility (usr.sbin/wormcontrol) as well for this. The driver has by now only been tested on a heavily tweaked 2.0.5R system against a Plasmon RF4100 recorder. However, note that this driver is based on some other recent changes in the SCSI code, so you would have a hard time backporting it to 2.1R. Usage of -current is recommended. Fitting hooks for other burners should not be too difficult, but you would best do this only with a certain understanding of the SCSI command-level protocol, and with a SCSI reference manual for your drive. Chances are good that HP or Philips drives could be easily cloned from the Plasmon part, since they are rather similar. Other drives will certainly require more work. There are still a lot of bugs in it, and i consider the driver still highly experimental. Suggestions and discussion about the archi- tecture are welcome. -- 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. ;-) ------- End of Forwarded Message From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jan 28 19:06:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA21890 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 19:06:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 19:06:02 -0800 (PST) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Monthly Reminder: *BSD Information Archive on Minnie From: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-ID: Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Organization: ADFA, Canberra, Australia Summary: Where to get information about BSD Keywords: bsd, news, archive, ftp, telnet, WWW Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk To: undisclosed-recipients:; Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.160] has a publically available cache of information on BSD4.x and BSD-related systems, especially the free flavours of BSD. Web Documents ------------- All of the BSD-related information on minnie can be accessed through the Web at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/BSD-info/BSD.html. There are many hotlinks to the FreeBSD and NetBSD web pages. Minnie has web pages with: + Interactive access to a Usenet News archive on BSD. + A hyperlinked version of the FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel source code. Bsdnews ------- Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the Usenet news on BSD, taken from several newsgroups. This archive can be accessed either via telnet or through the WorldWide Web. You can do two things: + search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern + retrieve particular articles To do this by telnet, telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. To do this through the Web, connect to the Web URL above and follow the link to the News Web interface page. Ftp --- Minnie has the following BSD-related stuff available by anonymous ftp: + FreeBSD - FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE, and some previous versions. + bsdnews - The Usenet news about *BSD, from June 1992 onwards. + daemons - Gif images of the BSD Daemons. These are copyright by Marshall Kirk McKusick. + phillip - NFS mount of some other *BSD stuff, which is maintained by Phillip Musumeci here at ADFA. + 4.4BSD-Lite - The entire source tree for 4.4BSD-Lite. + net2 - The kernel source tree for the Net/2 distribution. Please ftp from a site closer to you, if there is one. Australia has a single link to the Internet, and it's usually saturated. Thanks! ---- Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au