Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:12:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@BSDI.COM Subject: Re: Multisession CD-R Message-ID: <199602240912.KAA08642@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <96Feb23.165402est.20482-1@janus.border.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Feb 23, 96 04:48:21 pm
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As Jerry Kendall wrote: > The exact method of getting the contents to the new hard disk is not > as important as having more than one partition on the CD... I haver > ead something about having a MultiVolume MultiSession CD.. To the best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't support reading multivolume CDs yet. I've recently made one, but failed to read the second session on either FreeBSD or MS Winglows (95, FWIW). There's an urgent demand for it however, and i'm personally interested in getting this work. > I have the YAHAMA CD-EXPERT CDE100 Compact Disc Recorder... > > The OS of choice for the creation is: > > MS-Windows with Corel CD CREATER, BSDI 1.X, NetBSD 1.1, FreeBSD 2.1+ > and LAST but not least Linux. > > What software is needed if the OS is NOT MS-Windows... FreeBSD-current supports CD-Writers, it does also support them as multi-session CDs (as you could have guessed from my note above :). The only ``third-party'' software you need is team(1), a multibuffer utility. You need a fairly recent system, which comes with working WORM support, along with the utility wormcontrol(8). The code is still considered alpha to beta quality, but is known to work at least for data CDs. (I think nobody has been testing against audio CDs.) With a reasonably equipped machine, you can burn a CD-R in full multi-user operation. The bad point: your Yamaha is not yet supported, only the Plasmon RF4100 and HP 4020i. This is simply a matter that one can only support hardware where one has got access to. I estimate the amount of work to make the driver ready for the Yamaha ~ 20 hours, including the basic tests. This assumes that you've got the SCSI reference manual from them, which might be difficult (unless they've been changing their policy). You should point out to them that all their competitors make it available freely (or at little cost), for Plasmon or HP, it's available in electronic form on a BBS, or Web server, resp. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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