[perl] sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:17:46 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

> 
> Glen Barber writes:
> 
> >  > I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but
> >  > fails on FreeBSD.  The Problem is the line:
> >  >
> >  >        sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)
> >  >
> >  > After this line the following evaluates to true:
> >  >
> >  >        $! eq "No such file or directory."
> >  >
> >  
> >  I may be wrong, but shouldn't that be '/dev/acd0' ?
> 
> 	/dev/cd0 = SCSI CD-ROM (and maybe other stuff).
> 
> 	I don't know if that's what the OP has, but it is a possible
> value.

cd0 is also what you get if you use atapicam (ATAPI is SCSI over ATA
from what I remember) - for example cdrecord has traditionally used it
when writing CDs. Apparently the OP has the issue both when using
atapicam (/dev/cd0) and the normal ata node /dev/acd0.

-- 
Bruce Cran