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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:45:51 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD CD-R driver alpha available
Message-ID:  <199601301045.LAA13013@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601292327.SAA01951@jjarray.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jan 29, 96 06:27:12 pm

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As Fred Cawthorne wrote:

> I have successfully written a CD using the HP cd writer.  I had

Great news!

> I could start up X, recompile the kernel while starting a couple of
> netscapes, etc... and it still worked.  (I did all of this stuff
> with the laser off, but it still kept up with the drive)

:-)  Burning CD-R's under true multitasking...  Winglows cannot do it!

> One sort-of wierd thing was that the CD-R stayed in dummy mode even though
> I didn't tell it to the second time.  The docs I have say something about 

You could have used an explicit

wormcontrol prepdisk double

This should reset the dummy bit (or there's a bug in our code).

> Here's the shell script I used to write the CD...  I don't know if the
> sleeps are necessary but I stuck them in anyway...

They are not really, i think.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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