Hi, > I got the same result and error message as I did when trying to dump the > file system
The question towards FreeBSD developers is therefore: Why does device "/dev/cd0" with this gesture ... in_fd = open (device,O_RDONLY)) ... ... if (ioctl (in_fd,CAMGETPASSTHRU,&ccb) < 0) cause error ENOTTY, as indicated by growisofs message "Inappropriate ioctl for device" Maybe it is necessary to write a small demo program, because growisofs is kindof an anti-example of a clean software architecture. (Well, a debugger should make clear how it gets to the failed ioctl attempt.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The question towards the port maintainer of growisofs would be whether there is interest to develop a workaround which avoids that special ioctl. I would help, if desired. A test with cdrskin as substitute for growisofs would demonstrate whether this is worthwhile: /sbin/dump ... -P 'cdrskin -v dev=/dev/cd0 -eject -' ... or dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | cdrskin -v dev=/dev/cd0 -eject - (We have some indication by success of cdrecord. But i am reluctant for social reasons to analyze the FreeBSD doings of cdrecord. Its author accuses others of stealing his code.) I would further like to bring to the porter's attention a bug fix for growisofs with blank BD-R media: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=713016 Meanwhile well tested by users of Fedora. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"