Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:46:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Sphygmos <eweiss@wamnet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Philips Omniwriter CDr PLEASE HELP!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904281144040.19307-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000701be90fe$63287000$0d60e9d0@comm-server.wamnet.net>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Sphygmos wrote:
> 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.
OK.
> 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 using CDRecord 1.6.1
> is it ALWAYS says "SCSI Device not configured".
1) Try cdrecord 1.8. The current cdrecord port builds it.
2) The web page you cited instructs you to symlink /dev/rworm0.ctl to
/dev/rcd0.ctl. Did you do this?
> 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 not get it to work
> following his directions.
Did you check the master cdrecord page to see if your writer is supported?
If it works, everything else is standardized.
Doug White
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