Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:51:43 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU> Subject: Re: xpt* vs pass* (was Re: cdrecord ) Message-ID: <20000301145143.A33812@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <14525.36350.446934.308565@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:39:10PM -0700 References: <200003012107.AAA46366@netserv1.chg.ru> <200003012126.e21LQRx04404@orthanc.ab.ca> <14525.36350.446934.308565@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 14:39:10 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ I'm cc'ing this to -scsi because the scsi folks (hi Ken ;-) can more > easily answer this simple-to-them question ] > > [ On Wednesday, March 1, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: ] > > > > > > [ question about cdrecord not working with "file not found" messages ] > > > > Make sure /dev/pass6 exists, and that you have write permissions on it. > > > > For the HP drive itself you will find a couple of quarks. It doesn't > > recognize the usual SCSI commands to change audio tracks, and it > > doesn't report back the info needed for time-related functions (e.g. > > time remaining for the track/disk), so it's pretty useless with things > > like xmcd. None of these affect cdrecord, though. (And cdda2wav works > > great with it.) > > > > Just for my own clarification, is it the /dev/pass* entries that cdrecord > needs or is the /dev/xpt* entries? It was not apparent after doing "man pass" > and "man xpt". It needs both. It needs /dev/xpt0 to get a list of devices in the system, and it needs /dev/pass* to send commands to those devices. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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