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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:51:43 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>
Subject:   Re: xpt* vs pass* (was Re: cdrecord )
Message-ID:  <20000301145143.A33812@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <14525.36350.446934.308565@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:39:10PM -0700
References:  <200003012107.AAA46366@netserv1.chg.ru> <200003012126.e21LQRx04404@orthanc.ab.ca> <14525.36350.446934.308565@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 14:39:10 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote:
> 
> [ I'm cc'ing this to -scsi because the scsi folks (hi Ken ;-) can more
> easily answer this simple-to-them question ]
> 
> [ On Wednesday, March 1, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: ]
> > >
> > > [ question about cdrecord not working with "file not found" messages ]
> >
> > Make sure /dev/pass6 exists, and that you have write permissions on it.
> > 
> > For the HP drive itself you will find a couple of quarks. It doesn't
> > recognize the usual SCSI commands to change audio tracks, and it
> > doesn't report back the info needed for time-related functions (e.g.
> > time remaining for the track/disk), so it's pretty useless with things
> > like xmcd. None of these affect cdrecord, though. (And cdda2wav works
> > great with it.)
> > 
> 
> Just for my own clarification, is it the /dev/pass* entries that cdrecord
> needs or is the /dev/xpt* entries? It was not apparent after doing "man pass"
> and "man xpt".

It needs both.  It needs /dev/xpt0 to get a list of devices in the system,
and it needs /dev/pass* to send commands to those devices.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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