From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 17:18:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E24D16A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:18:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC6F43D45 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:18:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so298079nzd for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XwXHHEnLC6VeTpqosiwtGNjL+8T+g+qUFtomYcTfbkDypn6zC441axViOg3kFHbne5cCFFsCVQhHOADLvYJ7h8mua3/K5aTpn/CrTI4gD7AGwMKFurKsgwyP7vjmEINmzbYOGrpCHpZZr37x1MFSYtZghBraafKqOo7MHbgmz6s= Received: by 10.36.105.14 with SMTP id d14mr262293nzc; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.221.21 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990508181018581253e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:18:11 -0400 From: Bob Johnson To: russo@bogodyn.org In-Reply-To: <20050817215139.GA18463@bogodyn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050722023347.GA5783@bogodyn.org> <20050724162155.GA11548@bogodyn.org> <20050817215139.GA18463@bogodyn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contradicting the answer to Re: Answering my own question Re: Iomega REV drive, FreeBSD 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:18:13 -0000 On 8/17/05, Tom Russo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:21:55AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the flavor, containing: > > I'm answering my own question on the mailing list, just to get what I > found > > into the archives in case anyone else has this question. > >=20 > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:33:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the flavor, containing: > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.11. I last updated from STABLE in January: > > >=20 > > > FreeBSD bogodyn.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sat Jan 22 > 13:10:32 MST 2005 russo@bogodyn.org:/users2/obj/usr/src/sys/BOGODYN= =20 > i386 > > >=20 > > > I just purchased an external SCSI Iomga REV 35MB removable medium dri= ve. > =20 > > >=20 > > [...] > > > When I attach the device and camcontrol rescan all, I get this in the= =20 > > > /var/log/messages: > > >=20 > > > Jul 21 19:22:52 bogodyn /kernel: cd1: Removable CD-= ROM > SCSI-4=20 > > > device=20 > > [...] > > > That is, the drive is detected, but as a removable CDROM,=20 > >=20 > > This is not peculiar to BSD. Low-level SCSI utilities in the SCSI > controller > > at boot time also fail to recognize this thing as a disk drive, and eve= n=20 > > on Windows it shows up as a CD-ROM. The only way to write data to it i= s > to > > use a windows-only driver. And since it doesn't use an ISO-9660 file > system, > > the only way to read data off of it is with a windows-only driver, too.= =20 > So [...] > Which leads to a final question: Is there any work being done on > read/write > support for UDF filesystems? Might 6.0 get this capability? >=20 Someone referred to UDF in 6.0 as if it were read/write, but I don't see any evidence of that in the man page (it doesn't say it isn't read/write, either). If I have time this evening I will try to investigate that. ports/sysutils/udfclient might support that drive in write mode. If so, it will give you some ability to do useful things with it, although it doesn't appear that it will make it look like a mountable filesystem. - Bob