From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 07:37:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA29097 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 07:37:32 -0700 Received: from gateway.cybernet.com (gateway.cybernet.com [192.245.33.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA29090 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 07:37:27 -0700 Received: from [192.245.33.12] by gateway.cybernet.com (8.6.8/1.0A) id CAA24971; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 02:58:00 -0400 X-Sender: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 02:26:55 -0400 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org From: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Subject: Re: Help! Pinnacle Micro Recordable CD! Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, peter@nmti.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> AIEEEEEEEEEE! >> >> Our hardware guy just dropped this off on me, along with the comment "I guess >> we should have asked you before buying this". >> >> No kidding. It looks irretreivably DOS/Windows-ish. > >Looks like Peter Dufault is your only man! :-) > >> Any way to use FreeBSD or something similar to hook this up to a real O/S, >> or will we have to add this to the growing collection of dedicated Windows >> boxes collecting like DDT high in the corporate food chain? > >Have you tried scsi(1) for whacking commands at it? I assume it >documents some of them in the tech specs? > > Jordan Actually, I have one as well (the Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000). You can get Windows or Macintosh s/w to write to it. I've never hooked the thing up to a FreeBSD box before. I've got about 10 blanks laying here, but at $15 per blank I'm afraid of wasting $150 to find out that I used the wrong 'disklabel' option, or the wrong 'newfs' parameter. I would be very willing to test out the worm code if someone is in for a small amount of hand holding. :) -Mark Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com