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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 1995 14:39:12 -0500 (MET)
From:      robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien)
To:        jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: scsi(1) and WORM drives..
Message-ID:  <m0repZB-0009CMC@robkaos.ruhr.de>
In-Reply-To: <16741.792813823@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 14, 95 06:03:43 pm

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> 
> I've got a Phillips CDROM burner that I would, for obvious reasons,
> love to actually have work under FreeBSD.  I know that it's probably
> impractical, since these things need to be fed a steady stream of
> data, but perhaps I could use the new rtprio() stuff to make sure that
> the `burning' process didn't have to give up the CPU until it was damn
> well ready.  When it's making a CDROM, I don't want it doing anything
> else anyway.
> 
> It wasn't recognised by the SCSI driver, or at least it was probed and
> then noted as having no explicit driver available and then ignored, so
> I configured in the UK device and here's what I got:
> 
> sd1: 4095MB (8388315 total sec), 3712 cyl, 21 head, 107 sec, bytes/sec 512
> bt0 targ 3 lun 0: type 4(worm) removable SCSI1
> bt0 targ 3 lun 0: <IMS     CDD521/10       ????>
> uk0: unknown device
> bt0 targ 3 lun 1: type 4(worm) removable SCSI1
> bt0 targ 3 lun 1: <IMS     CDD521/10       ????>
> ...
> 
> Anyone know how or if I can now use scsi(1) to somehow get raw data to
> the device?  Ideally, I would just like to be able to do the equivalent
> of:	dd if=image.cd0 of=/dev/rsd2d
> 
> But as life is probably nowhere near that simple, I'll also settle for
> being able to open some device and ram the file down its throat
> somehow after suitable ioctl()s, or whatever.
> 
> This would actually be such an advantage for us that I think there
> could be some money in this if somebody wanted to contract for the job
> of making this all work.  Comments?
> 
> 						Jordan
> 

I have a Fujitsu MO drive and it would be nice if one could
have more support for optical drives. At the moment it is used as
a direct access device, i.e. like a hard drive (there is
a jumper on the drive).
Also, if I unmount the MO drive, swap the cartridge, and remount
again, I get "UNIT ATTENTION asc 28", and the device is no
more configured. Reprobing does not work for me.
I get only "Device not configured" messages. 
I'm using an AHA1542C in a 486DX50 with 20 MB RAM.
Whether this is a subtle hardware problem or not, I don't know.
The FreeBSD is the SNAP of Feb, 2nd.

Good luck with your CD writer.

Robert



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