From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 07:16:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01347 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01215 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15678; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:13:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199804091413.JAA15678@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (Andre Albsmeier) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:13:43 -0500 (CDT) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804091329.PAA08579@intern> from Andre Albsmeier at "Apr 9, 98 03:29:37 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Andre Albsmeier said: > > If the disks were the same, the easiest thing to do would be > > dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rsd1 Yeah, I did that too, for my first set of machines (I think I used dump/restore), but that involved pulling the disk and putting it in the other machine. > > I did run into one other problem. After rdumping my FS's to a solaris tape host, > > I wanted to dump the dump files to disk so I could burn them on my CD-Rom burner > > (in Win NT, grrr). But Solaris dd couldn't read the file off the tape? Anybody > > got ideas why? And I still want to get my Philips CDR400t going on FreeBSD. > > cdrecord doesn't work for it? Nope, it won't recognize the drive. I'm wondering if cdrecord is dependant on the scsi card? The one here at work is an amd driver. At home, I've yet to get my old Philips CDD2000 to work with either worm or cdrecord. I've got that on a 2940. -- An aad may have made this posting invalid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message