CD-Writer (ATA) and cdrecord

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Rick Hoekman wrote:

> Hello freebsd-newbies,
>
> I want to use my cd-rw, it mounts perfectly but CDRECORD is not finding
> the drive. This is in my /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/acd0a              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
>
> cdrecord -scanbus is giving me this:
>
> Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>
> Do I have to load a SCSI emulator or load a kernel module like you have
> to do in Linux?


Hi!

Well, cdrecord is SCSI-only.

if you only want to burn iso-images, give burncd a look (base system).


Otherwise you should compile a new kernel with the following line added:

device atapicam

to emulate ATAPI drives as SCSI ones.

HTH
Olaf


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