Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
In list.freebsd-current Kenneth D. Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 20:43:15 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Meyer wrote: I'm planning on implementing all the CDR ioctls for SCSI cds. BTW, are those documented somewhere? I mean, I can work out what they should do, but they still ought to be on a man page. Soren? Uhm, no man page I'm afraid, but I'll answer any questions you might

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Laurence Berland wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place. Uhm, I've had some success with

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-23 Thread Paul Richards
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 20:43:15 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 23 Aug, Paul Richards wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place. I think cdrecord can burn CDs

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-23 Thread Paul Richards
Alexander Leidinger wrote: On 23 Aug, Paul Richards wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm looking in the wrong

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : Do you claim ownership of all the drivers in cam/scsi, or can someone : with more tolerant religious convictions add a driver that's a clone : of the CD driver + MMC extensions that gets first crack at CDROM : drives, and recognizes MMC drives,

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Christopher Masto
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:50:11PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Christopher Masto writes: I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. As cdrecord isn't part of FreeBSD, this is clearly the wrong place to ask about that. Joe Schilling watches [EMAIL

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Warner Losh writes: Having said this, if you can come up with a foolproof way to get the ioctls right on all the drives that do support them, even the whacked out ones that need all kinds of quirky entries, and do it in a way that doesn't needlessly bloat the kernel for little gain (few

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
If the answer from the person who would have to approve the code had come back "Ok, provide the code and we'll see how well it works in practice", I'd do the code. But when it appears the code would never make it into the tree to be used, why waste my time? 'coz we're taking a page from

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : You may well be right, and there are good technical reasons for not : doing this. The only real reason that's been presented for not doing : MMC is that all the non-MMC drives might cause a support : headache. There are sound technical reasons for

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Matthew Jacob writes: If the answer from the person who would have to approve the code had come back "Ok, provide the code and we'll see how well it works in practice", I'd do the code. But when it appears the code would never make it into the tree to be used, why waste my time? 'coz

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2822 08:50], Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Actually, the real reason is that MMC drives that mostly support the standard, but do it wrong in ways that are hard to detect. Those are going to be the worst to try to support. There are some drives out there that just hang when

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2822 06:25], Kenneth D. Merry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It needs an ATAPI passthrough mechanism to work. (FreeBSD doesn't have one at the moment.) Søren, Matt and me were discussing the ATA/CAM issues so that we might be able to approach ATA through CAM. That would clear a lot. --

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
One thing that's missing is the ioctl CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE. It would be _really_ nice if cd(4) supported that ioctl so I could just seek and read from a CD. I had knu trying out my read_cd program, and it doesn't work for SCSI CD-ROMs, seemingly because of this issue :( Would you be adverse to

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 15:22:05 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: One thing that's missing is the ioctl CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE. It would be _really_ nice if cd(4) supported that ioctl so I could just seek and read from a CD. I had knu trying out my read_cd program, and it doesn't work

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Laurence Berland
On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place. Laurence "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: [snip] -- Laurence Berland Windows

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 20:43:15 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: On a vaguely related topic, after much searching I can't seem to see one way or the other if we can do a complete bit-by-bit copy of a cd with either cdrecord or burncd, though it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place. I

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Brian Fundakowski Feldman writes: One thing that's missing is the ioctl CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE. It would be _really_ nice if cd(4) supported that ioctl so I could just seek and read from a CD. I had knu trying out my read_cd program, and it doesn't work for SCSI CD-ROMs, seemingly because of

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:54:49 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: I'm curious - is there some reason that the CDR ioctls (in /usr/include/sys/cdrio.h) aren't supported for MMC cds? It looks like doing them for MMC would be straightforward, it's the kind of thing that an OS is supposed to do, and it

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:54:49 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: I'm curious - is there some reason that the CDR ioctls (in /usr/include/sys/cdrio.h) aren't supported for MMC cds? It looks like doing them for MMC would be straightforward, it's the kind of thing that an

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 17:01:20 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:54:49 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: We'd get a flood of mail saying things like "why isn't my froboz CD-R/WORM supported with the cd(4) driver..." Which should actually be smaller

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: Which should actually be smaller than the flood of mail saying things like "why doesn't burncd support my nice, standard-compliant CD-R?" In fact, according to the documentation that comes with cdrecord, it would be *much* smaller, because all the SCSI CD-Rs

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 18:19:47 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: Which should actually be smaller than the flood of mail saying things like "why doesn't burncd support my nice, standard-compliant CD-R?" In fact, according to the documentation that comes with cdrecord,

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 18:19:47 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: Which should actually be smaller than the flood of mail saying things like "why doesn't burncd support my nice, standard-compliant CD-R?" In fact, according to the

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Christopher Masto
I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon --

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 19:17:37 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 18:19:47 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: Which should actually be smaller than the flood of mail saying things like "why doesn't burncd support my nice,

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: Does this extend to the point of supporting things that happen to share a physical connector with SCSI, but otherwise aren't SCSI? Because that's what supporting non-MMC CD-R drives would amount to. Not really. Non-MMC CD-Rs not only use the same connectors and

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Christopher Masto writes: I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. As cdrecord isn't part of FreeBSD, this is clearly the wrong place to ask about that. Joe Schilling watches [EMAIL PROTECTED], and that's the place to ask. I've been told that ATAPI CD-Rs

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 22:38:11 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: Of course that isn't the entire picture - that's why I asked. Again, arguing about this solution being "halfway" when you're ignoring half the functionality of the standard seems hypocritical. Not

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'm sorry- I really haven't been paying much attention to this, but it seems it's sort of on the wrong mailing list, isn't it? Mike- can you take a deep breath and send a summary of what you see the techical problems/requirements are to the freebsd-scsi alias? I'll admit that I'm not up on a

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Christopher Masto writes: I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. Spoke to soon - according to the pkg/DESCR file, it should work on them now. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 23:18:50 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Christopher Masto writes: I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. Spoke to soon - according to the pkg/DESCR file, it should work on them now. It needs an ATAPI passthrough mechanism to