From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 16:40:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wamnet.net (ns2.wamnet.net [208.233.96.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32992156CA for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eweiss@wamnet.net) Received: from comm-server (bill@comm-server.wamnet.net [208.233.96.13]) by ns2.wamnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA03050; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:48:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001101be9107$257a6750$0d60e9d0@comm-server.wamnet.net> From: "Sphygmos" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Subject: Re: Philips Omniwriter CDr PLEASE HELP!!! Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:39:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Mr. Perlstein, Thank you very much for your speedy reply. My problem still remains, however. I have been warned by many many people that upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.1 would be VERY dangerous and most likely wont work. Everyone recommends a fresh install. To do this I would have to back up my system. To do this I would have to have my CDr working. Therefore I can't install until I get my CDr working but i cant get my CDr working until i install. So i'm stuck in a nice catch 22. I was wondering if there was any way to get it working on 2.2.8 because on the web page i sent you earlier the person claimed to get it working with 2.2.5. Please write me back. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sphygmos Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 7:15 PM Subject: Re: Philips Omniwriter CDr PLEASE HELP!!! >On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Sphygmos wrote: > >> Dear Sir or Madam, >> >> I am running a Pentium 233 machine with 64 megs of ram and 2 4.5gig SCSI drives and a Philips Omniwriter 26A 2x/8x External CD-RW on an Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller. I am using FreeBSD release 2.2.8. >> I am having no luck whatsoever getting my cdr to write. I can use it as a CDRom just fine. I use device cd0c and mount it using mount_cd9660 and it works perfectly. However, I can't for the life of me get it to write CDs. What happens when I try usi >ng CDRecord 1.6.1 is it ALWAYS says "SCSI Device not configured". >> I have no idea how to get past this. I couldn't figure out how to use a worm or rcd device either. I did happen to find a web page that had a lot of information about writing CDs with cdrecord on freebsd and even mentioned my exact CDr... but i could no >t get it to work following his directions. I just keep getting the same "SCSI Device Not Configured" message... the web page is: http://www.best.com/~spadger/CDR-main.html >> >> If anyone could PLEASE help me out here I will be forever grateful. I've been trying to get this to work for months with no avail. I've read all the manpages and web pages i could find. I asked in #freebsd and #linux on IRC and checked the www.freeb >sd.org website... None of this has any mention of my problem. >> If you could please write me back soon I would grately appreciate it. Thank you for your time. > >Please tell your mailer software to trim lines to 70 characters or >so? > >I'm having no trouble using cdrecord on freebsd 3.1, the scsi systems >have changed radically and you may want to upgrade. > >I note that you have a 1542C, and i'm unsure if that is supported, you >may want to make sure freebsd supports it if you choose to upgrade. > >-Alfred > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message