From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 2 9:35:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3571037B41E for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2HZHZ89955; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:35:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:35:17 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_munsch@interface-business.de Subject: Re: SCSI CD-R drives Message-ID: <20011202183517.B89919@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011202101340.A655@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011202101340.A655@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:13:40AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:13:40AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > So, I guess I'm paying the cost of not having done my research > before making a purchase. I went out and bought a nice SCSI CD-R/RW > drive (Ricoh MP7040S) and installed it in my 2.2.8-STABLE system > before reading the worm(4) man page and discovering that only four > CD-R drives are supported. Mine ain't one of them. > > Silly me, I supposed that a SCSI drive was a SCSI drive, sorta like > tapes and hard disks. It is (mostly). cdrecord is what makes a CDRW ticking. > When probed at boot time, it is found by the SCSI driver and > identifies itself. But then the "unknown" device is attached and > nothing further interesting can be done. > +--------------- > | (ahc0:6:0): "RICOH CD-R/RW MP7040S 1.10" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > | uk0(ahc0:6:0): Unknown > +--------------- > > I'm willing and able to hack /sys/scsi/worm.c, but several hours of > web surfing didn't uncover any programming information about this > drive. Why? I'm not sure why you need to run 2.2.8 but most every SCSI CDRW drive works with cdrecord on FreeBSD 4.x I've been running with multiple model Plextor, Yamaha, Philips without problems. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message