From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 20 17:42: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDBA37B423 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02888; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:41:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39A06772.4D6C2AA2@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:41:52 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@home.com Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: IDE CDRW Cc: "Anthony I. Ivanov" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, rob Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Aug-00 Doug Barton wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> On 18-Aug-00 rob wrote: >> > If you figure this out let me know, as notebooks don't have scsi cdrom >> > drives. I have a wonderful Acer 602, but have to boot into w98 to burn >> > cds. >> > In linux they have what is called ide-scsi emulation which I have >> > installed >> > before. Rob. >> > >> > "Anthony I. Ivanov" wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all! >> >> >> >> Is there any way to activate IDE CD-writer to FreeBSD box? >> >> man burncd and/or mkisofs > > FYI, all mkisofs does is create an ISO image. You're on your own to burn > that image to a CD. sysutils/cdrecord is probably what you're looking for. > > Good luck, > > Doug Interesting! I had thought that cdrecord was only for SCSI drives, but I just took a look at it, and it appears to support ATAPI drives, too. I'm gonna have to give this one a try myself! :-) Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message