Hello.

It's a long story, but I need to make a NetBSD filesystem formatted 
CD-R (specifically). The problem comes in the disk label, which 
NetBSD requires. When I configured the image to be a vnode device, it 
was given one temporarily. So, I was thinking of using that one for 
the cylinders, sectors, tracks, and the multipliers between them 
(sectors/cylinder, sectors/track, etc). However, I came down to 
fields like "RPM" and "seek time", which a CD-R has variable, since 
it isn't read at a certain speed.

So, my question is this: can I set those things to an arbitrary 
number, and if I set those things to an wrong, will my CD-ROM drive 
burn up? Or is there a workaround, flag, or disk type I don't know 
about (I admit I didn't read through the whole disktab table looking 
for an entry like that)? The application of this _requires_ a 
disklabel in order to mount the CD-R; just not putting one on won't 
work.

I'll be willing to tell the long story upon request in case my 
approach is wrong, but it would seem like there is a simple solution 
I'm missing here.

Thanks for any help.
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Signed,
Dan Harrison