Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Rodney W. Grimes scribbled this message on Aug 24: > Ahhh.. did we just experience a major time warp some place? I just > received about 15 messages I know I have read before, all dated > 18 Aug 1999. if you notice that the bottoms have TWO unsubscribe messages attached.. looks like someone a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > about? > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking about? > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > a program such a cdrecord can attempt to make a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Ahhh.. did we just experience a major time warp some place? I just received about 15 messages I know I have read before, all dated 18 Aug 1999. > < said: > > > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > > open("pci0:10:0", .) > > Don't be silly. > >

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the CAM and P

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > > about? > > > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration fr

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > about? > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > > a program such a cdrecord can a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > open("pci0:10:0", .) Don't be silly. > On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration > to an actual major , minor device. No, it knows nothing about special files, nor s

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread brooks
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Remember that at least for the Yamaha you can set the speed to 6 if > you are burning CD-R's. 4 is the max for CD-RW's. When I last used cdrecord (on Solaris) I remember finding that if I tried to write with a speed that was too high for the

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-21 Thread Eric Hodel
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Hate to ask, do we support CD-RW? > > Yup! In fact, I recommend that you get a 5-pack of CD-RW disks > so you don't turn your CD-R's into scrap while playing with the > unit. Scrap? HA! http://students.seattleu.edu/hodeleri/Images/CDs.gif -- Eric Hodel

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-20 Thread A . Leidinger
On 19 Aug, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It should be noted that the 'cdrecord' program implements a FIFO itself, > and you can specify the size. The default is 2MB. cdrecord uses a man cdrecord (v1.8a2?): ---snip--- The default fifo size is currently 4 MB. ---snip--- Bye, Alex

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
Please Matt "burn" a summary document ... (Gosh I have been burning too many CDs 8) ) -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Another possibility, if you have the RAM, is to use the team(1) :program (it's in the ports) to buffer the data as it goes to the burner. :You basically put it into the pipeline between mkisofs and cdrecord, and :it buffers up to 5MB in memory (default, adjustable). Of course, you've :got t

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally, when you pipe mkisofs to cdrecord directly it is possible to > fall behind enough that an error may occur. The CD writer needs a > continuous stream. There are two solution to this if it occurs: First, > write at a slower rat

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Bruce Albrecht wrote ... > Matthew Dillon writes: > > And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW > > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > > you will only have

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread John R. LoVerso
> > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using > > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. > In my experience, this is not true. I have used blank=fast on a CDRW > that has over 500 MB written,

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
> > : > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > : > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > : > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using > : > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. > : > :In my experi

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
: > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. : > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB : > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using : > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. : :In my experience, this is

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Matthew Dillon writes: > > And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW > > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > > you will only have 550MB left. You can actual

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Bruce Albrecht
Matthew Dillon writes: > And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase t

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread David O'Brien
> Yah, or if you don't want to create yet another environment variable > you can stick those in the /etc/default/cdrecord file (note: the > directory is 'default' not 'defaults'). If that is truely the case we need to send-pr it -- ports are *not* allowed to have application-specific

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > open("pci0:10:0", .) Don't be silly. > On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration > to an actual major , minor device. No, it knows nothing about special files, nor s

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the CAM and P

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > > about? > > > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration fr

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > about? > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Amancio Hasty
> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > about? > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > > a program such a cdrecord can a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking about? > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > a program such a cdrecord can attempt to make a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread brooks
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Remember that at least for the Yamaha you can set the speed to 6 if > you are burning CD-R's. 4 is the max for CD-RW's. When I last used cdrecord (on Solaris) I remember finding that if I tried to write with a speed that was too high for the

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Amancio Hasty
I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so a program such a cdrecord can attempt to make an intelligent decision as to which device is the cd recorder for instance we know that the system can prin

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :And once you've found the right dev you can set CDR_DEVICE and CDR_SPEED :in your shell environment. Saves you from typing it every five minutes. :Like: : :CDR_DEVICE=0,1,0 :CDR_SPEED=4 Yah, or if you don't want to create yet another environment variable you can stick those in the /etc

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Matthew Dillon wrote ... > :The device is probably dev=0,1 > > I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work. > > Try: > > cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq > > You should get: > > Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling > scsidev: '0,3,0' >

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
> :The device is probably dev=0,1 > > I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work. > > Try: > > cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq > > You should get: > > Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling > scsidev: '0,3,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 3 lu

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The device is probably dev=0,1 I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work. Try: cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq You should get: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Devic

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Is me again 8) : :mkisofs -R /mount/dir | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 -dev=0:1:0 : :Okay, whats the magic device name to access the yamaha cd recorder . :I have tried several combinations of names with no success. : :dmesg says that I have: : :cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 :cd0: Removable CD-

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi Guys Is me again 8) mkisofs -R /mount/dir | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 -dev=0:1:0 Okay, whats the magic device name to access the yamaha cd recorder . I have tried several combinations of names with no success. dmesg says that I have: cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Again a very good advice. Got four CD-RW . Two came with the unit and I bought 2 HP CD-RW disks. Plus got 5 CD-R . Those I will save much much later 8) Tnks Again! -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hate to ask, do we support CD-RW? Yup! In fact, I recommend that you get a 5-pack of CD-RW disks so you don't turn your CD-R's into scrap while playing with the unit. -Matt :And I will probably bug next the multimedia group;however, :those