Re: Xfburn

[ff%freddyfisker.dk@localhost]

Hi Thomas

Here is some information about my computer driving NetBSD:

VIA Technologies VE-900, Mainboard

Lycom ST-125 SATA-300 / eSATA-300, PCI-Card

LG BH10LS30 Super Multi Blue, Blu-ray SATA Drive

Kingston SV300S37A120G, 120GB SATA SSD


I don't use the two interal SATA connectors on the VE-900 mainboard.

If you can use this computer to test, and give instruction on how I can
help, then I will do my best.

Best regards
Freddy

> Hi,
>
> (sorry for not having the message id to reply to)
>
> Freddy Fisker wrote:
>> Why don't NetBSD have the Xfburn to burn CD and DVD?
>
> Probably at least because libburn does not yet know how to
> perform SCSI transactions ("passthrough") on NetBSD.
> (It has a system adapter for FreeBSD which uses CAM:
>    cam_open_device(), cam_send_ccb(), ...
>  There are also adapters for Linux SG_IO and Solaris uscsi.)
>
> I am the developer of libburn.
> If there is info about how to find the CD drives of the system,
> and how to perform SCSI command transactions from userspace,
> then i would begin to implement a system adapter for NetBSD.
> A courageous tester with real hardware would be needed then.
>
> We could port libburn, test it by porting cdrskin, port libisofs,
> test it by porting libisoburn to get xorriso, and then XFCE
> experts could have a look at any remaining GUI obstacles of
> Xfburn.
>
> One could get an overview of obstacles outside SCSI code and
> Xfburn's own code, by compiling
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.3.4.tar.gz
> which should build by
>   cd xorriso-1.3.4 && ./configure && make
> but will not be able to operate optical drives by SCSI
> transactions. (It still can make bootable ISO images, then.)
>
> Please notify me by direct mail, if there is interest in this.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
>