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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:43:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root)
Cc:        andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk?
Message-ID:  <199804101243.OAA01907@intern>
In-Reply-To: <199804091537.KAA16153@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Apr 9, 98 10:37:54 am"

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> In a previous message, Andre Albsmeier said:
> > > 
> > > > > 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. 
> > 
> > Hmm, as long as the kernel detects it as a worm, it's up to cdrecord
> > to do the correct things.
> 
> cdrecord doesn't need the worm device, or so I've read.

Hmm, but it needs the scgx link. And this points to rworm0.ctl:

andre@bali:/dev>ll scgx
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  sys  10 Feb 13 10:09 scgx@ -> rworm0.ctl


> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > According to the README of cdrecord-1.6a12
> > 
> > --------------------------------- snip ---------------------------
> > 
> > Cdrecord has been implemented with a Philips CDD 521.
> > Cdrecord now is maintained with the following drives:
> > 
> >         COMPRE/Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7502 
> >         Philips CDD-2000
> >         TEAC CD-R50S
> 
> 
> Ah ha, a newer version. I've been trying with 1.5. Thanks.

The one in sysutils/cdrecord worked out of the box for me. There
are some warnings when being built but I think they can be ignored.

	-Andre 

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