From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 04:04:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA23008 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 04:04:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.4.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA22998 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 04:04:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nero.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (nero.comnets.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.4.159]) by zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/COMNETS-1.2) with ESMTP id NAA13881; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:03:53 +0100 Received: (ost@localhost) by nero.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/COMNETS-1.0) id NAA09065; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:03:50 +0100 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to mount a CD in a WORM for reading? References: <199610022305.AA072497514@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Reply-To: Martin Ostermann x-no-archive: yes From: Martin Ostermann Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:03:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: Darryl Okahata's message of Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:05:14 -0700 Message-ID: <43u3mg9exl.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [the mail I am replying to is a few month old] Darryl Okahata writes: > > Now, worm(4) says that it should supply all capabilities of cd(4), but > > there's no worm block device (/dev/worm0). > > Unfortunately, you cannot currently use a CD-writer as a CD-reader. > Until someone merges (?) the worm and CD drivers, you cannot read CDROMs > from a CD-writer. Hi, Does ".. full CD-R support for [..]" (2.2 gamma release notes) imply that it's now possible to use read a CD via the worm device? Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phoneto:++49/241/807917 Germany | faxto:++49/241/8890378