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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion: treat SCSI CD-R as CD-ROM
Date: 8 Jan 1996 02:02:05 GMT
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tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes:
> 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.

Ain't this a bit expensive to be used as a CDROM?

Actually, put a

	device worm0

line into your config file, re-config and rebuild your kernel, and
your drive should be found as a WORM device.  (DON'T do this with
2.0.5, only with 2.1 or higher!)

Not that you could already do very much however...  I'm midway to make
it doing more.  It isn't looking that bad, but wait another couple of
weeks for more news.

-- 
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. ;-)