Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 11:45:05 -0500 From: David Deaven <deaven@execpc.com> To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM Read/Write drive Message-ID: <199808021645.LAA03640@pop02.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:22:36 CDT." <199807281622.LAA22662@chrome.jdl.com>
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I use a SCSI CDRW drive with FreeBSD. The "cdrecord" port works great for
writing CDs.
Note that your drive will be recognized as a CD-ROM and work just fine for
that, but to write to it you need special software (like cdrecord). CDRs are
not capable of doing block-at-a-time writes, like a disk drive or optical
drive.
You can dump a whole filesystem directly to a CDRW using cdrecord and mkisofs:
mkisofs -a -l -L -R -r <filesys> | \
(sleep 300; cdrecord -v speed=2 -datadev=XXX -)
the sleep allows mkisofs time to work through creating the TOC and be able to
provide a continuous stream of data to the recorder.
cdrecord also allows you to make audio CDs with no problem.
Good luck!
>I've stumbled onto a CD-R drive that I'd like to thunk
>into my FreeBSD box. I know little about it and haven't
>the slightest clue what SW I need for it.
>
>This is an external "Smart and Friendly" CD-R 2006 Plus.
>It's got a normal centronics-like SCSI connection with
>external terminator.
>
>I think I'm going to plug it in along side my external
>SCSI 4mm HP Jetstore 2000 tape drive.
>
>Am I confused to think that the hardware aspects of this
>should "Just Work"? What, if any, SW will I need? I'd
>like to construct a large file system and thunk a whole
>bunch of stuff like tar files onto a CD and be able to
>mount it as a file system later. Things like that.
>Suggestions? I don't have a clue where to even begin.
>
>As a last resort, I could instead move all this SCSI
>crud to a Winblows 95 box and do it there if needed.
>
>Thanks,
>jdl
>
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