I'm no SCSI or or DVD-RAM expert, but I think I can answer some of yourFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings fellow BSD enthusiast. Can you let me know how to persue the following question, in the event that it has already been posted and answered. I am interested in attaching a DVD-RAM drive to an Intel computer with FreeBSD operating system. The computer has a S.C.S.I. board, and Panasonic makes a drive that attaches to a S.C.S.I. board. Panasonic offers no device drivers for FreeBSD. Has anyone else tried to do this? Is a device driver available? Can the proposed arrangement work with a default S.C.S.I. driver? Could such a device be made bootable? Any advice is appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
questions.
For reading, the DVD-RAM should look like a CD-ROM to the SCSI system.
Whether or not there is a driver is something you can check at the
hardware list on www.freebsd.org. Even if there isn't a specific driver,
it _might_ work anyway, if it's pretty standard in its design.
As far as writing to the device, there are no drivers that I know of.
However, FreeBSD has a spiffy SCSI passthru system that allows software
to directly control SCSI devices: this is how cdrecord works. Last I
checked, cdrecord did work for many DVD burners, but you couldn't get
the DVD capable version for free, you had to purchase it. That's been
almost a year, so things may have changed, but there's a point for you
to start researching.
Good luck,
Bill
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