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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP4020i (CD-R) Usage question (dd input/output error?)
Date: 5 Jul 1996 17:39:12 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Cc: franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde)

franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde) wrote:

> 	# rtprio 5 team  -v 1m 5 < IMAGE  | dd of=/dev/rworm0 obs=20k
> 	1093 kilobytes, 0 seconds
> 	   [ The green light on the 4020i blinks for a few seconds ]
> 	   [ The red (write) light blinks for a few seconds ]
> 	1093 kbytes written [Carriage Return]
> 	dd: /dev/rworm0: Input/output error
> 	2186+1 records in
> 	54+0 records out
> 	1105920 bytes transferred in 4 secs (276480 bytes/sec)

You should also quote the SCSI error message from the console (or from
/var/log/messages) here.  This one will lead further.

> Is there a way in FreeBSD to have both the worm0 AND cd0 device
> configured simultaneously?

By now, only if you've also got a separate CD-ROM drive.  Some
framework is needed to chain the CD-ROM driver behind the WORM driver,
but nobody did do it yet.  (Apparently, we've all got a separate
CD-ROM device anyway, so there's no pressure for us to work it out. :)

> Thanks for your time,
> (If possible reply by e-mail: franky@pinewood.nl)

Cc sent.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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