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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:41:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        "Anthony I. Ivanov" <vadha@mail.ru>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, rob <europax@home.com>
Subject:   Re: IDE CDRW
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000820194152.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <39A06772.4D6C2AA2@gorean.org>

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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
 
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