burncd and /dev/acd0c ??

ivan georgiev ioang at verizon.net
Thu Sep 25 10:43:02 PDT 2003


On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:01 am, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, ivan georgiev wrote:
> > I am trying for first time to burn a CD under freebsd. I have read the
> > man page for burncd, but I do not have /dev/acd0c created (only /dev/acd0
> > is there).Is this a problem or not?
>
> It could be--in /dev with FreeBSD 4.8, I see acd0a, acd0c, acd1a and
> acd1c.  This is probably different under 5.x.
>
> > Also, cdrecord -scanbus doesn't show anything...
>
> cdrecord is for SCSI, or if you are using atapicam to emulate SCSI with
> IDE devices.

Thanks Warren,

But as I said, there is only acd0 in /dev. No /dev/acd0c is created (I use 
5.1-current).
Do I have to emulate SCSI in order to use the CD writer?

Ivan



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