On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:26:11AM +0000, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: > Hi all, > > just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and > DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to > configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it > installed fine. Reading and writing CDs in all possible variations works > fine with burncd. Yet many of my scripts are written for cdrecord, so > I'd rather stick with that tool instead of learing yet another one. > > Two questions arise > > (a) How do I get such a unit to treat DVD-RAM just as slow, random > access optical media (much like an MO-Disk)? > I do not wish to do burncd or cdrecord on it, I wish to write to it > directly, if possible. > Alas, I could not put a new disk label on the blank (disklabel says > 'unknown type: auto'), and newfs does not like it either. So I am > stuck. > > (b) Google and the online handbook (for 4.x though) tell me that I > need > > device atapicam > device scbus > device pass > > in my kernel to get to use the ATAPI unit like a SCSI unit > (e.g. with cdrecord and friends). However, on 5.1R I cannot find any > mention of an atapicam device, neither in GENERIC nor in the hints > nor NOTES. Now, what's a man to do? > > > I checked the freebsd.org FAQs and archives, google and the news groups, > but most stuff there is not really conclusive. In case this is a FAQ, > after all, please just post a pointer. > > Any hints are much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance & cheers, > Stefan
Hi all, the issue has been resolved, thanks go to Kent and Marc for their pointers. Adding the following, as Kent suggested, put the drive in UDMA-33 mode: # cat /boot/loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # userconfig_script_load="YES" hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" It's load on the system is now somewhere in the background noise. Ignoring that the atapicam device is not mentioned in the GENERIC nor hints nor NOTES files in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and instead following the handbook (http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicam&sektion=4) by adding the line device atapicam # Allows ATAPI devices to addressed as if they were SCSI to the kernel resulted after a kernel build and install in a system that now (a) does not block the eject button anymore (b) shows the drive in the 'camcontrol devlist -v' listing as /dev/cd1 (c) allows me to actually write to and read from DVD-RAM is if it were a sloooow hard drive. disklabel -A cd1 # Tells me there is no label on the device disklabel -w cd1 # labels the disk just fine disklabel -A cd1 # shows the label newfs /dev/cd1 # puts the file system on it tunefs -n enable cd1 # enables softupdates df /dev/cd1 # shows about 4.3 GB usable mount /dev/cd1 /dvd # mounts the device (-t cd9660 is rejected) Tested on /usr with about 2.5 GB of data, the speed is - tar -cvf /dvd/51usr.tar writes at about 1.4 MB/s (slow for a HD), i.e. 89 MB/min (as fast or slow as my DDS-3 DAT drive) - tar -tvf /dvd/51usr.tar reads at about three times as fast at 4.1 MB/s (i.e. 245 MB/min) - cp -R /usr /dvd/ : writes slooooow, at about 110kb/s (or 6.6 MB/min). The first time around it got stuck after a couple of hours (when most of the data seemed to be transferred already), with ps telling its status being D+ (uniterruptible wait for device access) and MWCHAN as biowr. Neither camcontrol reset nor shutdown -r would work, had to power cycle the machine. Next time it worked. Thanks again to all & cheers, Stefan -- ============================================================================ Stefan A. Deutscher | Donostia International Physics Center | office: ++34-943-018174 Universidad del Pais Vasco, Facultad de Quimica | fax : ++34-943-015600 Departamento de Fisica de Materiales | home : ++34-943-270647 Apartado 1072, San Sebastian 20080, Spain | email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================================ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
