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Date: Wed,  3 Feb 1999 23:02:41 +0200 (EET)
From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: od driver
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Kenneth D. Merry writes:
 > Petri Helenius wrote...
 > > 
 > >   How do I force the system to use od0 instead of cd0 driver for a
 > > device? I've a SCSI DVD-RAM which I would like try to write to but
 > > since the cd0 driver does not support that (at least at the moment?)
 > > I tried to wire the drive to use od0 but was not successful.
 > > 
 > >   How does one accomplish this?
 > 
 > Umm, you can't.  Writing to CD-R or DVD drives is very different than
 > writing to MO drives.  Even if you change the probe routine in the od
 > driver to recognize your DVD drive, writing to the drive probably won't
 > work properly.
 > 
 > I suggest that you try cdrecord, and see if you can write a DVD that way.
 > You can probably stick a cd9660 filesystem on the DVD.
 > 
DVD-RAM is a random access media, quite unlike CD-R which is written
in sessions.

Pete

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