Trouble with a atapi-cam backup..

Thomas Quinot thomas at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Sep 4 10:03:12 UTC 2010


* Randy Stewart, 2010-09-02 :

> And now my backup to atapi-cam is failing.. I get:
> 
> root at lakerest /usr/tmp]# /usr/local/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -R -J  
> backup_init.08-31-2010.gz
> :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/cd0: Inappropriate ioctl for  
> device

Would be interesting to see the output of truss or ktrace for this
command. Can you open a PR and send that info? Does "camcontrol inq cd0"
work?

Thomas.



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