On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, David C. Myers wrote:

> 'cdrecord' is what you want.  Great program, and coincidentally written
> by Joerg Schilling, the same fellow who wrote the Solaris SCSI driver
> you mention below in question #4.  You won't need anything special;
> cdrecord will recognize CD devices that are writeable.  
> 
> I take that back.  You'll need 'mkisofs'.  That's the premastering
> program that creates an image file in ISO 9660 format.
> 
> Schilling's home page is:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> 
	You'll find them, along with many other useful tools in NetBSD's
	pkgsrc sysutils category:
	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/sysutils/README.html
> 
> > 4. Attach a film scanner (probably a Nikon) using SANE.  I have used
> >    a borrowed Nikon scanner on an ELC running Solaris and there were a
> >    special SCSI-direct device needed.  Is SCSI direct supported by
> >    NetBSD/sparc?
> 
> Supposedly, SANE should work with either the unknown SCSI device 'uk0'
> or the SCSI scanner device 'ss0', so put those in your kernel config
> file.  You won't need anything like the 'scg' driver under Solaris.
> 
> Having said that, I was unable to get my scanner to work correctly under
> SANE, but I only fiddled with it for an hour or so.  If you are
> successful, you might post a message.
> 
	You should probably use the 'uk0' rather than the 'ss0' device
	(comment out 'ss0' in your kernel config).

> Marginally related question: Is anybody looking at porting the SCSI CAM
> framework developed by the FreeBSD folks?

	Jason has done some work on the NetBSD scsi/atapi system, and
	I believe the intention is to continue with our own framework.

		David/absolute