From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 09:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26401 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 09:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26396 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 09:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deaven@execpc.com) Received: from pop02.execpc.com (pop02.execpc.com [169.207.3.114]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.0) id LAA23531; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:45:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tabby (harconia-1-108.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.132.108]) by pop02.execpc.com (8.8.8) id LAA03640; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:45:07 -0500 Message-Id: <199808021645.LAA03640@pop02.execpc.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jon Loeliger cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM Read/Write drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:22:36 CDT." <199807281622.LAA22662@chrome.jdl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 11:45:05 -0500 From: David Deaven Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | \ (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 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------- David Deaven deaven@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~deaven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message