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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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Suggestion: treat SCSI CD-R as CD-ROM Date: 7 Jan 1996 06:51:38 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4cnqhq$t6c@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Most (all?) SCSI CD recorders also work as CD-ROM readers. However, they identify themselves as recorders, rather than readers, so FreeBSD 2.1 decides they are unknown devices. Suggestion: consider changing the SCSI CD-ROM driver to also work with CD-R. I just managed to get FreeBSD somewhat satisfactorily installed, so haven't had a chance to figure out quite how the SCSI support works, but based on what I've seen in the Linux CD-ROM driver, it doesn't look like supporting CD-R as CD-ROM is very hard. In the Linux driver, the only place it cares is where it finds out the device type: a couple of if statements have to check for both types of device instead of just CD-ROM. --Tim Smith