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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:15:12 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:17:46 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:

>=20
> Glen Barber writes:
>=20
> >  > I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but
> >  > fails on FreeBSD.  The Problem is the line:
> >  >
> >  > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)
> >  >
> >  > After this line the following evaluates to true:
> >  >
> >  > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0$! eq "No such file or directory."
> >  >
> > =20
> >  I may be wrong, but shouldn't that be '/dev/acd0' ?
>=20
> 	/dev/cd0 =3D SCSI CD-ROM (and maybe other stuff).
>=20
> 	I don't know if that's what the OP has, but it is a possible
> value.

cd0 is also what you get if you use atapicam (ATAPI is SCSI over ATA
from what I remember) - for example cdrecord has traditionally used it
when writing CDs. Apparently the OP has the issue both when using
atapicam (/dev/cd0) and the normal ata node /dev/acd0.

--=20
Bruce Cran