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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:24:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto)
Cc:        doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, paulo@nlink.com.br
Subject:   Re: wormcontrol write speed
Message-ID:  <199909260824.KAA65733@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19990926020604.A21048@netmonger.net> from Christopher Masto at "Sep 26, 1999 02:06:04 am"

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It seems Christopher Masto wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with
> > to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats
> > thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably mean the death of
> > the worm stuff as is now, but I'm the last user anyways so....
> 
> Any chance of getting a passthrough or "SCSI emulation" so that
> cdrecord could be used instead?  (Then you won't have to worry about
> different CD-R quirks)

If somebody writes it there is a chance. I dont have this on my TODO
list. I could maybe be talked into providing a generic ATAPI interface
that would give you a method of injecting ATAPI commands directly
into the systemi, cdrecord etc could use that then.

> I have an Acer CRW 6202A which doesn't seem to work with FreeBSD
> (current as of five minutes ago, including the rev 1.19 of
> atapi-cd.c).  "wormcontrol blank" (with a CD-RW of course) runs for a
> little while, then aborts with an I/O error.  Also, all IDE devices
> are completely locked up while it's running.

What I/O error ?? its impossible to diagnose on no data...
 
> The dd also sort of works for a while, then gets an I/O error.  Same
> with fixate (which also locks up the IDE busses).

What I/O error ?? its impossible to diagnose on no data...
 
> I'm currently recompiling with ATAPI_DEBUG and ACD_DEBUG in the hopes
> that I'll be able to produce a better bug report.  Any suggestions?

Provide data, the system spits out lots of sensekey things and the
like on errors, those are invaluable data to diagnose this...

-Søren



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