From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jan 30 03:16:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA05655 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA05598 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA18528 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:53:07 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA01857 for scsi@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:53:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA13013 for scsi@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:45:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601301045.LAA13013@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD-R driver alpha available To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:45:51 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601292327.SAA01951@jjarray.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jan 29, 96 06:27:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)