Subject: Re: WORM cd writer
To: Chris Lloyd <strawberry@toth.org.uk>
From: Jonathan R. Hinds <jon@fork.yi.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/10/2001 21:53:03
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:36:28AM -0800, Jonathan R. Hinds wrote:
> > It's not that sort of drive, but I am using a Plextor CDR under NetBSD
> > with cdrecord (1.9 from source). Getting the right syntax for dev= was a
> > pain though.
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
> is handy for finding the right dev= entry
>
cdrecord -scanbus
provides (as root):
---
Cdrecord 1.9 (i386-unknown-netbsd1.5.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jorg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
---
After poking around with it for awhile, setting "CDR_DEVICE=/dev/rcd0d:@,0"
in "/etc/default/cdrecord" made it work wonderfully. I don't know if I was
doing something wrong or what, but this worked for me.
--jon