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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cdwrite on SPARC/Solaris-2.x or FreeBSD-2.1? Date: 20 Dec 1995 16:12:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4b9clh$9jc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DJICzy.DCI@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 X-Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc In-Reply-To: <DJICzy.DCI@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> To: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes: > Has anyone ported the Linux cdwrite program (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/ > linux/BETA/cdrom/mkisofs/) to SPARC/Solaris 2.x or FreeBSD 2.1? > I think I have "mkisofs" running on both, but I would like to get > "cdwrite" to drive a Philips CDD522 directly. It's not a simple ``porting'' effort, since the cdwrite program is a hack on Linux (ab)using some sort of generic SCSI interface. To the contrary, FreeBSD does already have a `worm' driver, so it seems to be more logical to add the required features in the kernel, so cdwrite(1) will finally degrade to dd(1) (perhaps accompanied by a wormcontrol(8)). This is work-in-progress. -- 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. ;-)