Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?
from my previous message: Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs? If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the SCSI device n:n:n? Use camcontrol? I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso file system, taking the place of mkisofs in cdrtools. But NetBSD has no CD or DVD burner in the base system. I could also try to build cdrkit and see if that works. At that stage I hadn't looked in the Makefile to see that cdrkit was not an option on FreeBSD 9.0 . So far, I tried cdrecord and readcd only as root, so permissions ought not yet to be an issue. amelia2# camcontrol devlist WDC WD30EZRS-11J99B0 80.00A80at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ada0) PLEXTOR DVDR PX-L890SA 1.05at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0) WD My Book 1130 1012 at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da0) WD SES Device 1012 at scbus7 target 0 lun 1 (pass3,ses0) UFD USB Flash Drive 1100 at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (da1,pass4) Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 PMAP at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (da2,pass5) amelia2# readcd dev=5,0,0 sectors=0-0 - readcd: Device not ready. I got same results after running kldload atapicam. Also, cdrecord -scanbus didn't work at all. In Linux, beginning with kernel 2.6, cdrtools work with ATA or IDE CD or DVD burners without inserting a SCSI layer. Maybe I need to build and install growisofs (sysutils/dvd+rw-tools)? I have /dev/xpt0 even without kldload atapicam, also /dev/pass*. cdrtools use dev=n1,n2,n3, which don't have to be all zero. I had intended, and still intend, to build a Linux installation, may or may not bother with NetBSD. I want to see what Linux can do that FreeBSD can't, how and if the device drivers are superior. NetBSD has no USB 3.0 support now or in the foreseeable future, and otherwise doesn't like my hardware; I tried before installing FreeBSD. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?
I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything (running cdrecord -scanbus): cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-freebsd9.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J?rg Schilling Running cdrecord dev=help or cdrecord dev=HELP: did no better. Do you have permissions set properly? Maybe it still tries to access per ATAPICAM, which may be non-working just like acd - just a wild guess, I'm not using 9-RC here so I can't be more specific. I had a similar problem on the older computer (i386 with ATA, not SATA) in NetBSD, but cdrecord ran well in Linux. CD-RW drive there is ATAPI. I've been using cdrecord and cdrdao now since burncd stopped working for me somewhere in v5. For DVDs, growisofs should work. While cdrecord and cdrdao address th SCSI device by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN. -- Polytropon After I failed to burn a CD in NetBSD (5.1_STABLE) on the older computer (i386) with cdrecord, I booted into FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE and was successful with burncd. That drive was CD-RW, ATAPI, that computer has ATA but no SATA. Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs? If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the SCSI device n:n:n? Use camcontrol? I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso file system, taking the place of mkisofs in cdrtools. But NetBSD has no CD or DVD burner in the base system. I could also try to build cdrkit and see if that works. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:23:13 + (GMT), Thomas Mueller wrote: After I failed to burn a CD in NetBSD (5.1_STABLE) on the older computer (i386) with cdrecord, I booted into FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE and was successful with burncd. That drive was CD-RW, ATAPI, that computer has ATA but no SATA. Good to see that it's still supposed to work in 8.2. :-) Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs? Haven't tested that, but it should also work for CD media instead of DVD, just the size of the ISO data is limited to the size of a CD. If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the SCSI device n:n:n? Use camcontrol? Yes. You need to have the device ATAPICAM option in your kernel (or the module for that functionality), then you can do: # camcontrol devlist HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N RL00at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0) HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L30 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1) Generic Flash HS-CF 4.55 at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da0) Generic Flash HS-MS/SD 4.55 at scbus3 target 0 lun 1 (pass3,da1) Generic Flash HS-SM 4.55 at scbus3 target 0 lun 2 (pass4,da2) The first two entries are optical drives, the first one has recording capability. Device ID is 0:0:0, the corresponding device files are /dev/pass0 and /dev/cd0, _those_ are provided by ATAPICAM. Programs like cdreord and cdrdao require the 0:0:0 device, growisofs uses /dev/cd0. Note that you need to set the _permissions_ for those device files in order to use non-root access to them! You also need access to /dev/xpt0 which belongs to the artificial SCSI subsystem. :-) You could, for example, make them owned root:operator, permission 0660, and add your user to the operator group. I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso file system, taking the place of mkisofs in cdrtools. But NetBSD has no CD or DVD burner in the base system. I did always use mkisofs for preparing the ISO for a CD, but you can include that step by piping. The growisofs does this step implicitely, e. g. % growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -r -J /path/to/files This will run mkisofs - the flags -r and -J are explained in man mkisofs. For a pre-mastered ISO file, % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso would do the job. This ISO file could have been created by mkisofs, by k9copy, or even by dd. You can also use this with VCD images, created by mkvcdfs, as far as I remember. By the way, I have symlinked /dev/dvd to /dev/cd0 so I can access this more easily. :-) I could also try to build cdrkit and see if that works. Haven't tested this one yet, but it seems to conflict with cdrtools, and according to the Makefile, it does not run on v9. Sounds like it's work trying. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?
What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive, /dev/cd0 ? Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit? This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64. I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything (running cdrecord -scanbus): cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-freebsd9.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling Running cdrecord dev=help or cdrecord dev=HELP: did no better. I had a similar problem on the older computer (i386 with ATA, not SATA) in NetBSD, but cdrecord ran well in Linux. CD-RW drive there is ATAPI. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:32:16 + (GMT), Thomas Mueller wrote: What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive, /dev/cd0 ? Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit? This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64. I can imagine that in 9.0 where acd is obsoleted by cd, burncd will either be rewritten, or be useless. In that case, using tools that work with old-fashioned and now modern cd should work fine. I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything (running cdrecord -scanbus): cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-freebsd9.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling Running cdrecord dev=help or cdrecord dev=HELP: did no better. Do you have permissions set properly? Maybe it still tries to access per ATAPICAM, which may be non-working just like acd - just a wild guess, I'm not using 9-RC here so I can't be more specific. I had a similar problem on the older computer (i386 with ATA, not SATA) in NetBSD, but cdrecord ran well in Linux. CD-RW drive there is ATAPI. I've been using cdrecord and cdrdao now since burncd stopped working for me somewhere in v5. For DVDs, growisofs should work. While cdrecord and cdrdao address th SCSI device by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:03:02 -0700 (PDT), Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks to Jerrymc and Polyoptron. Things are working, sort of. I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution. But when I do a dd read to verify the write, the read ends on an I/O error rather than an EOF. (I'm not sure that this problem is new.) There is a very long delay between dd's report and the program end (delay on close?) And sometimes the eject command after the dd locks up and eventually fails. There are plenty of console messages, including READ_BIG retrying, READ_BIG timed out, TEST_UNIT_READY freeing zombie taskqueue request, and PREVENT_ALLOW taskqueue timeout - compiing request directly . I start wondering if this may be due to a defective drive, or wrong cable, or even through DMA incompatibilites... Instead of using dd (have you made sure to use the correct block size?) try using readcd (comes with cdrecord); see man cdrecord for details and examples. This is definitely NOT reliable enough to put into a script (which would make handling the many file names more reliable). True. cdrecord reports --- scsidev: '4,0,0' scsibus: 4 target: 0 lun: 0 SCSI buffer size: 64512 Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 103874560/103874560 (50720 sectors). Writing time: 41.290s Average write speed 20.8x. Try to force a lower value, maybe drive and discs are not compatible. With -speed 8 it should be slow enough and fast enough for a test. You can use -prcap to find out what the drive tells cdrecord about itself. I would be grateful for any clues about what is still wrong here. I'd slowly expect a defective drive... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:28 am, Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I *am* trying to get off it. Now: my 5.4 system is down until I replace some hardware. In the meantime I need to burn about forty data CDs. I've been using burncd on 5.4 but when I try it on 7.2 the drive and process lock up during the fixate step. Clearing them requires a reboot. Does anyone have advice, pointers, etc.? If you point me to pseudo-SCSI, please give me pointers to all parts of the solution, since the various man pages don't have proper links to each other. (Hint to man page authors: the SEE ALSO entries are very important, and you must consider ALL levels, from other apps to the system calls used.) I seem to recall having some difficulty when trying to burn CDs on a DVD capable drive using burncd. Some incompatibility of burncd and the DVD drives. I suspect either the software or the drives have improved so that with more modern components it works. Meanwhile I believe I avoided the problem using atapicam and cdrecord. But I don't recall needing to reboot. (And it could have all been a dream?) Malcolm Thank you for your help. Mark Terribile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
Polytropon, I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution. But when I do a dd read to verify the write, the read ends on an I/O error rather than an EOF. (I'm not sure that this problem is new.) ... There are plenty of console messages, including READ_BIG retrying, READ_BIG timed out, TEST_UNIT_READY freeing zombie taskqueue request, and PREVENT_ALLOW taskqueue timeout - compiing request directly . I start wondering if this may be due to a defective drive, or wrong cable, or even through DMA incompatibilites... I tried taking the drive out of the 5.4 machine. No difference. Also, the ATAPICAM subsystem gets into a state where the eject program will report drive busy but cdrecord can still operate the drive. I think that in doing whatever was needed to accomodate DVDs, the subsystem was broken. It looks like cdrecord manages to work around it. Instead of using dd (have you made sure to use the correct block size?) try using readcd (comes with cdrecord); see man cdrecord for details and examples. I'll try it. I am using the correct block size, and the data retrieved cmp's correctly against the iso fs image used to create the disk. dd was means for exactly such purposes, and if it can't work, the OS is doing a bad job. This is definitely NOT reliable enough to put into a script (which would make handling the many file names more reliable). Under 5.4 I did this by script routinely. Question is, under which category do I report this? Mark Terribile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 07:24:46AM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: Polytropon, I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution. But when I do a dd read to verify the write, the read ends on an I/O error rather than an EOF. (I'm not sure that this problem is new.) ... There are plenty of console messages, including READ_BIG retrying, READ_BIG timed out, TEST_UNIT_READY freeing zombie taskqueue request, and PREVENT_ALLOW taskqueue timeout - compiing request directly . I start wondering if this may be due to a defective drive, or wrong cable, or even through DMA incompatibilites... I tried taking the drive out of the 5.4 machine. No difference. Also, the ATAPICAM subsystem gets into a state where the eject program will report drive busy but cdrecord can still operate the drive. I think that in doing whatever was needed to accomodate DVDs, the subsystem was broken. It looks like cdrecord manages to work around it. Well, the drive will be busy if any process/shell is cd-ed to any directory on the device or any process/shell has any file on the device open, no matter what is being done to it. Probably you already know that, but it makes your statement above easily a not-surprising situation. jerry Instead of using dd (have you made sure to use the correct block size?) try using readcd (comes with cdrecord); see man cdrecord for details and examples. I'll try it. I am using the correct block size, and the data retrieved cmp's correctly against the iso fs image used to create the disk. dd was means for exactly such purposes, and if it can't work, the OS is doing a bad job. This is definitely NOT reliable enough to put into a script (which would make handling the many file names more reliable). Under 5.4 I did this by script routinely. Question is, under which category do I report this? Mark Terribile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
Thanks to Jerrymc and Polyoptron. Things are working, sort of. I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution. But when I do a dd read to verify the write, the read ends on an I/O error rather than an EOF. (I'm not sure that this problem is new.) There is a very long delay between dd's report and the program end (delay on close?) And sometimes the eject command after the dd locks up and eventually fails. There are plenty of console messages, including READ_BIG retrying, READ_BIG timed out, TEST_UNIT_READY freeing zombie taskqueue request, and PREVENT_ALLOW taskqueue timeout - compiing request directly . This is definitely NOT reliable enough to put into a script (which would make handling the many file names more reliable). cdrecord reports --- scsidev: '4,0,0' scsibus: 4 target: 0 lun: 0 SCSI buffer size: 64512 cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. atapi: 0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'ATAPI ' Identifikation : 'DVD A DH20A4H ' Revision : 'QP53' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x002B Profile: 0x001B Profile: 0x001A Profile: 0x0016 Profile: 0x0015 Profile: 0x0014 Profile: 0x0013 Profile: 0x0012 Profile: 0x0011 Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0002 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 988416 = 965 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data99 MB Total size: 113 MB (11:16.29) = 50722 sectors Lout start: 114 MB (11:18/22) = 50722 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) ATIP start of lead in: -11567 (97:27/58) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 12 Manufacturer: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 309127 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01:0 of 99 MB written. Track 01:1 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 2.7x. Track 01:2 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 21.3x. Track 01:3 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 22.1x. Track 01:4 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 21.5x. Track 01:5 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.3x. Track 01:6 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 21.7x. Track 01:7 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.5x. Track 01:8 of 99 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 98%] 21.9x. Track 01:9 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 22.6x. Track 01: 10 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 22.0x. Track 01: 11 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 90%] 21.6x. Track 01: 12 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.5x. Track 01: 13 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.0x. Track 01: 14 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.3x. Track 01: 15 of 99 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 99%] 23.1x. Track 01: 16 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 22.5x. Track 01: 17 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.2x. Track 01: 18 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.6x. Track 01: 19 of 99 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf 98%] 23.3x. Track 01: 20 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.6x. Track 01: 21 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.4x. Track 01: 22 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.7x. Track 01: 23 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.4x. Track 01: 24 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 22.8x. Track 01: 25 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 23.5x. Track 01: 26 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 22.8x. Track 01: 27 of 99 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 23.6x. Track 01: 28 of 99 MB written (fifo 98%) [buf
Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
Hi, I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I *am* trying to get off it. Now: my 5.4 system is down until I replace some hardware. In the meantime I need to burn about forty data CDs. I've been using burncd on 5.4 but when I try it on 7.2 the drive and process lock up during the fixate step. Clearing them requires a reboot. Does anyone have advice, pointers, etc.? If you point me to pseudo-SCSI, please give me pointers to all parts of the solution, since the various man pages don't have proper links to each other. (Hint to man page authors: the SEE ALSO entries are very important, and you must consider ALL levels, from other apps to the system calls used.) Thank you for your help. Mark Terribile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:58:22 -0700 (PDT), Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.com wrote: Does anyone have advice, pointers, etc.? If you point me to pseudo-SCSI, please give me pointers to all parts of the solution, since the various man pages don't have proper links to each other. First of all, load the kernel module for ATAPICAM: # kldload atapicam You can also make this permanent by adding atapicam_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf. Of course, you can also recompile your kernel with device atapicam added. If the module is loaded successfully, see what SCSI equipment will show up: # camcontrol devlist HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N 1.01 at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass0) This is an example of how a ATAPI recorder shows up as a SCSI device: it's the device 2:0:0, corresponding to /dev/cd0 and /dev/pass0. Unless you're burning CDs with root permissions, you need to make sure your user will have proper writing access to the following files, e. g. by using the group operator for your user: own cd0 root:operator permcd0 0664 own xpt0root:operator permxpt00660 own pass0 root:operator permpass0 0660 This is an example from /etc/devfs.conf. Make sure devfs is restarted to reflect those changes. In the following example, I just assume commands will be issued by root. If you want to burn data CDs, I recommend using cdrecord. In step 1, you prepare the ISO to be burned: # cd /path/to/your/files/ # mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/cd1.iso vol1/ Then you burn it: # cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data /tmp/cd1.iso You can of course combine both steps: # cd /path/to/your/files/ # mkisofs -r -J vol1/ | cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data - An addition: I have setup an alias for burning data CDs in ~/.cshrc for less typing: alias burndata 'cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data' This makes it more easy to deal with existing ISO files, which often is the way I go (instead of the combined method). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:58:22AM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I *am* trying to get off it. Now: my 5.4 system is down until I replace some hardware. In the meantime I need to burn about forty data CDs. I've been using burncd on 5.4 but when I try it on 7.2 the drive and process lock up during the fixate step. Clearing them requires a reboot. Does anyone have advice, pointers, etc.? If you point me to pseudo-SCSI, please give me pointers to all parts of the solution, since the various man pages don't have proper links to each other. (Hint to man page authors: the SEE ALSO entries are very important, and you must consider ALL levels, from other apps to the system calls used.) Here is the command string I use successfully to burn a dir of picture files on FreeBSD 7.1 system. /usr/sbin/burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s max data PIC2005-cdimage fixate I don't remember what I did to create the PIC2005-cdimage file. I was having trouble with the system trying to run the burner too fast with I had a speed argument in the command line. Without it, it runs fast enough for the few I was making. jerry Thank you for your help. Mark Terribile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Destroying CDs (Re: (no subject))
Modulok modu...@gmail.com writes: Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? Not that I would trust, even if it existed. Heavy duty office shredders do the job for me. A blowtorch is more fun, though (and I actually own one). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
7.2 disc1 bootonly cds not recognized as bootable
Running 7.1 and trying to do clean install of 7.2. Downloaded both disc1 and bootonly iso files because the 7.2 release announcement says this. Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not recognize the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off the next boot device). All affected machines did see the other discs as bootable. If you have a machine with that problem booting off either bootonly or livefs and then swapping in disc1 once sysinstall starts should work. In my case I have the described booting problem with both disc1 and the bootonly disk. Disc1 and bootonly cd are bootable on different computer so know they are good. Dead in the water, Help ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:28:46 -0500, Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: In order to play an audio CD, you can utilize the cdcontrol command included in the base system: % cdcontrol play Refer to man cdcontrol for further options and eventually how to specify the CD device (if needed). One thing that I don't think I've read but personally encountered. When using cdcontrol, it seems to tell the cd-rom drive to play the disc so it's not really done in software. If the audio cable from the cd-rom drive is not connected to the motherboard you won't get sound. For the vast majority of users this is a non-issue, but it be confusing to figure out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:39:17 -0600, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that I don't think I've read but personally encountered. When using cdcontrol, it seems to tell the cd-rom drive to play the disc so it's not really done in software. If the audio cable from the cd-rom drive is not connected to the motherboard you won't get sound. For the vast majority of users this is a non-issue, but it be confusing to figure out. Well, interesting you mentioned this. I have this audio cable installed and after cdcontrol told the drive to play the audio CD, it is on the CD audio channel of the sound card (and the mixer channel CD, of course). I'm not sure how this is handled via the ATA cable where the CD drive usually is connected, or the SATA calbe, if it's a newer drive. Or, to make it more complicated, when the drive is a SCSI cable; I don't think SCSI transmits audio data via the SCSI cable... At least the drive should show the typical playing activity which can be checked using a headphone on the drive's front connector (if it has one). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
*snipped for polite cleanliness* Thanks to everyone who took the time to help me out here. I think instead of playing CDs I'll just rip them, it seems a WHOLE lot easier, and of course, not having to worry about scratches is a plus ;) I think one MAJOR problem I had yesterday when I was doing all this, was that I had been awake for about 27 hours...Which is more than most Windows boxes. I was trying to remember how to configure hardware because I'm basically spoiled by easy to configure OSs like BSD and Linux, that I literally couldn't remember how to configure stuff. I think you guys can agree to that. Back in like 2000 even, which wasn't THAT long ago, I know for a fact Windows and Linux were both very different, and this wasFreeBSD 4.0? 2000 is a little spacial, it's when I bought my very first FreeBSD PowerPak with FreeBSD 4.0 on CD, the 6 CD set of tools and things, and came with The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition. Which I still read. Lehey is a great book writer. I think one problem also, is the sheer number of albums I have. I ahve a LOT of CDs, and almost all of them currently have been ripped, and I keep two HDs in my Slackware FTP server (Which may be reinstalled with FreeBSD, which is one reason I was testing how I'd do certain things in BSD) and I have over 30 GBs of music in there. Some albums that are important to me, like my Misfits boxed set, Ramones Discography, and rare Acid Bath Demo stuff, and my complete set of Danzig work (All Misfits, Samhain boxed set, + all Danzig CDs) I have all ripped as both oggVorbis, 128 K MP3s, and 320 K MP3s (I use 128 for my I-Pod because I have a 1 GB model, can't afford the big ones) and 320 I use for my play lists on the computer so I get good sound, and oggorbis was because a while back Linux distros like SUSE couldn't give you MP3 from out of the box, because of the license thing, so I kept ogg for that. It's something that took a LONG time to do and I'll probably just continue on with ripping the rest of my CD collection and putting it all on my FTP server so that each machine I have can play music without all of them losing disk space. Thanks again everyone! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Playing audio CDs
I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong one. None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD drive, and nothing has happened. How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
I found in the handbook that I could try this: /sbin/mount /cdrom I then saw this: /dev/cd0: device not configured. Apparently typing /sbin first made it give me a different error message, I'm just trying to find hwo to configure a drive now. would /stand/sysinstall work for this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net writes: I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong one. None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD drive, and nothing has happened. How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD? See the entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled Why can I not mount an audio CD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:28:46 -0500, Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, ??? being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. What should it be good for mounting an audio CD? It doesn't have an ISO-9660 file system on it. In order to play an audio CD, you can utilize the cdcontrol command included in the base system: % cdcontrol play Refer to man cdcontrol for further options and eventually how to specify the CD device (if needed). So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong one. What does % cdcontrol info say about the media you're trying to play? None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD drive, and nothing has happened. Permissions of the device file? % ll /dev/acd0 crw-rw-r-- 1 root operator0, 105 Feb 7 22:32 /dev/acd0 ^ ^ ^ These are important! How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD? As I mentioned, cdcontrol is a very easy way to do this. Of course, there are GUI tools that can be handy, e. g. xcd or whatever comes with KDE or Gnome (if you use this). Keep in mind that, according to FreeBSD's permission concept, you need the +r permission on the device file (see /etc/devfs.conf, /etc/devfs.rules). If you have more than one drive, you can set variables like CDROM to get rid of things like -f /dev/acd[012]. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing audio CDs
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:35:56 -0500, Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: I found in the handbook that I could try this: /sbin/mount /cdrom I then saw this: /dev/cd0: device not configured. This refers to the fact that the device does not contain an ISO-9660 formatted media. Apparently typing /sbin first made it give me a different error message, I'm just trying to find hwo to configure a drive now. would /stand/sysinstall work for this? No. The device is configured via the /etc/fstab file that controls how to mount the disc, e. g. # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# # --- - -- - - - /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This will expand your command % mount /cdrom to something like % mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /cdrom Also, keep in mind the permissions: You need +r for the device, and you have to be the owner of the mount target directory. Furthermore, users must be allowed to mount media which is controlled by the setting vfs.usermount=1 that is to be put into /etc/sysctl.conf. But as I mentioned before, you cannot mount an audio CD; imagine that it's technically impossible. :-) (Of course, this says nothing about that you cannot copy audio tracks, convert them into OGG/Vorbis or duplicate discs 1:1, which is ALL possible.) A final note: I see you're using /dev/cd0 for your CD drive. What about using acd0 instead (if it's an ATAPI drive)? You can specify /dev/cd0 as $CDROM if you've got a SCSI device, but then, due to permissions, I think you need to set proper access rules for the xpt device, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the boot only CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the setup source from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite working. It was working fine from Linux.It is a Sun machine with onboard nVidia ethernet. So I connected a USB to ethernet adapter.It works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. Also, when you boot the boot only CD, and say to use the CDfor the install source, it errors, repeatedly, for every package.You have to know to push control-c. I also don't see information as to what is on CD1 vs. 2 vs 3. In the visual fdisk, I deleted a partition, then tried undo, it said it couldn't, that it had commited/written already. I later restarted setup and the deleted partition was back. It seems its understanding of what has been written is wrong. (I ran FreeBSD a bunch years ago, around 3.x, but stopped once I found pulling out a USB device paniced. Ready to give it another try..well, for some porting work..) - Jay___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the boot only CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the setup source from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite working. It was working fine from Linux.It is a Sun machine with onboard nVidia ethernet. well nvidia ethernet chips are well... specific. some works SOMEHOW, some not at all. mine works about 1 minute after starting, then it stops ;) (nve driver) So I connected a USB to ethernet adapter.It works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. exit just setup and get back. kernel do autoattach, just setup scans devices once. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
USB audio CDs?
I have a USB DVD-RW drive that I'd like to use to rip music under 6.3-RELEASE, but I don't have a /dev/acd0 (and can't get grip to work from /dev/cd0). /dev/cd0 shows up fine, but audio CDs log errors and grip (from ports) can't do much with /dev/cd0. grip is able to see the disc table of contents for the CD, but attempting to rip only generates errors: 006: Could not read any data from drive (repeats per track) Repeatable for different CDs. I was able to mount a cd9660 disc from this drive without a problem. I've previously done this (using grip) with ATA/SATA optical drives of various sorts, as well as used various USB mass-storage devices without any problems, but this is my first shot under *BSD at getting audio off a USB optical drive. I read through the USB related man pages, FB handbook, and googled without finding any answers... Would appreciate any advice! I have all of these in my running kernel: device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen# Generic device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device da # Direct Access (disks) device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) device cd # scsi cd for cd-r/burner on USB device atapicam I tried it both w/ and w/o atapicam. Attaching device with audio CD loaded logs the following: Jul 20 01:28:20 mine kernel: umass0: Sony DRX-500UL, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: cd0: SONY DVD RW DRU-500A 2.0h Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: cd0: cd present [198012 x 2048 byte records] Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Illegal mode for this track Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): cddone: got error 0x6 back Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 3 5 7b 0 0 1 0 Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error Jul 20 01:28:30 mine kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (etc...) Thanks! -omar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to write any audio CDs with the current 7.0 (both burncd and cdrecord)
Hi, Anybody able to write audio CDs with the current 7.0? I have Pioneer DVDR-112D/1.21 drive. Burncd breaks for a long while: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/118207 So I used cdrecord from cdrtools-2.01_6 which worked well. Now command 'cdrecord -v -dao -force dev=1,0,0 speed=4 driveropts=burnfree *.cdr' finishes but produces unplayable CD. I tried the older SONY drive and cdrecord produced unreadable CD with it too. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD CDs don't boot with my Sony Vaio BGN-BX397XP
Hello, I'have a Sony Vaio BGN-BX397XP. I'have Windows XP and Mandriva installed, but I want use FreeBSD. I cant boot with any CD, the system displays rapidly lines on the screen incomprehensible, I have a picture for that. I'have test 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0 beta 4 CDs You can see on back the model SONY PCG-9X1M. You can have a description of my computer on Sony web site : http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/login/login.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons Product Code : 28245051 Serial Number : 5000578 Thank you for your ideas, Philippe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs
I bought the new DVD writer -- Pioneer DVR-112D. But every time I try to write data CD or audio CD it gives Input/Output error. It can read CDs and write and read DVDs no problem. Anybody else has this problem? What is the solution? I know I should submit PR to the bug database but since PRs are processed so slowly I decided to ask here first. acd0: DVDR PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D/1.21 at ata0-master UDMA66 cd0: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.21 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device I use FreeBSD-6.3-PRERELEASE. I had Sony DVD writer before, it wrote CDs on the same system w/out problems. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 20:26 -0800, Yuri wrote: I bought the new DVD writer -- Pioneer DVR-112D. But every time I try to write data CD or audio CD it gives Input/Output error. It can read CDs and write and read DVDs no problem. Anybody else has this problem? What is the solution? Are you using burncd(1) or ports/sysutils/cdrtools ? Are you getting DMA errors to kernel msgbuf or simple 1-line I/O error? ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs
Are you using burncd(1) or ports/sysutils/cdrtools ? Are you getting DMA errors to kernel msgbuf or simple 1-line I/O error? I am using burncd. There is only one-line I/O error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs
Normally that means that the drive is not ready to burn (Door not closed, or media not ready). Its possible that the driver is sensing that data wrong from the hardware, too. You only have the one drive in the system? No possible /dev/ confusion? Try cdrtools (Good luck with the syntax) ~BAS On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: Are you using burncd(1) or ports/sysutils/cdrtools ? Are you getting DMA errors to kernel msgbuf or simple 1-line I/O error? I am using burncd. There is only one-line I/O error. l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really in jail? ~Maynard James Keenan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs
Quoting Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Normally that means that the drive is not ready to burn (Door not closed, or media not ready). Its possible that the driver is sensing that data wrong from the hardware, too. You only have the one drive in the system? No possible /dev/ confusion? Try cdrtools (Good luck with the syntax) No, door is closed and there is only one device. Actually cdrecord works ok. So I guess this is is some bug with burncd. burncd is obsolete anyway. It's wrong that handbook still recommends to use cdrecord on ATAPI cd-writer. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
I followed your instruction...one more disk to the trash! Thanks On 9/5/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:50:21PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-Ramd64. I've lost five of them...and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the question is not clearer. Better not use 6.1. 6.2 has been out for some time now. The following works for me; 1) Make sure that the CD/DVD rewriter is controlled as a SCSI device instead of an ATAPI device. Build a kernel with the following devices: # ATA and ATAPI devices # Do _not_ include the atapicd driver! device ata device atadisk # ATA disk srives device ataraid # RAID drives # The atapicam device is not included in the GENERIC amd64 kernel! device atapicam# Emulate ATAPI devices as SCSI via CAM options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device cd # Compact Disc device da # Direct Access (disks) device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) 2) Set the device permissions correctly # Give members of group cdrom access to the CD/DVD-ROM and DVD+RW via the # SCSI interface own xpt0root:cdrom permxpt00660 own cd0 root:cdrom permcd0 0660 own cd1 root:cdrom permcd1 0660 linkcd1 cdrom linkcd1 dvd My user-id is part of the cdrom group. 3) Use 'cdrecord -scanbus' to determine which device to use; Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a11 (amd64-unknown-freebsd6.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' '0L23' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-716A ' '1.08' Removable CD-ROM So I'm using 1,1,0. 4) Burn the image; cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=32 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ -data 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 01:50:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-R amd64. I've lost five of them... How do you determine they're broken? Like which error messages you get with what command, that makes you decide to trash them. and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the question is not clearer. Cdrecord (or burncd for that matter) doesn't know what bootable cd-roms are. The iso file determines if they're bootable or not. Cdrecord/burncd just tells the cd writer what bytes to burn in which sectors. man mkisofs should tell you about making an iso file bootable. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:50:21PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-R amd64. I've lost five of them...and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the question is not clearer. Better not use 6.1. 6.2 has been out for some time now. The following works for me; 1) Make sure that the CD/DVD rewriter is controlled as a SCSI device instead of an ATAPI device. Build a kernel with the following devices: # ATA and ATAPI devices # Do _not_ include the atapicd driver! device ata device atadisk # ATA disk srives device ataraid # RAID drives # The atapicam device is not included in the GENERIC amd64 kernel! device atapicam# Emulate ATAPI devices as SCSI via CAM options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device cd # Compact Disc device da # Direct Access (disks) device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) 2) Set the device permissions correctly # Give members of group cdrom access to the CD/DVD-ROM and DVD+RW via the # SCSI interface own xpt0root:cdrom permxpt00660 own cd0 root:cdrom permcd0 0660 own cd1 root:cdrom permcd1 0660 linkcd1 cdrom linkcd1 dvd My user-id is part of the cdrom group. 3) Use 'cdrecord -scanbus' to determine which device to use; Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a11 (amd64-unknown-freebsd6.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' '0L23' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-716A ' '1.08' Removable CD-ROM So I'm using 1,1,0. 4) Burn the image; cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=32 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ -data 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpmTO8TMBER0.pgp Description: PGP signature
bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
Dear Sirs Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-R amd64. I've lost five of them...and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the question is not clearer. Regards Luiz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
Sam Lawrance wrote: On 27/07/2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? The device listed by camcontrol seems to be an external hard drive. That said, I think it's possible for camcontrol to talk to IDE devices via atapicam. according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html if you dont want to use burncd for burning CDROMSs you need to use atapicam (section 18.6.9) either kldload atapicam or add the following line to the /boot/loader.conf file: atapicam_load=YES then, reboot your machine. As root, you can run the following command to get the SCSI address of the burner: # camcontrol devlist This didnt work for me last time I tried for some reason but I usually just use burncd anyway. Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
--On Friday, July 27, 2007 13:53:19 +0100 Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 27/07/2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? The device listed by camcontrol seems to be an external hard drive. That said, I think it's possible for camcontrol to talk to IDE devices via atapicam. according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.ht ml if you dont want to use burncd for burning CDROMSs you need to use atapicam (section 18.6.9) either kldload atapicam or add the following line to the /boot/loader.conf file: atapicam_load=YES That did the trick. Thanks. camcontrol devlist Maxtor 3200 0344 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) USB 2.0 Flash Disk 1100 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,da1) HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0D20 at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,cd0) TSSTcorp CD-RW TS-H292B DE03 at scbus2 target 1 lun 0 (pass3,cd1) -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Can't burn cds
--On Friday, July 27, 2007 04:54:18 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 July 2007 02:38:31 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 27, 2007 2:07:47 AM + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fstab and in order to use k3b, I had to mount the CD on the command line first. It won't work if the CD is not mounted first, it's not as easy as it is in Linux, but it works. Thanks a lot. You've made me feel like a complete idiot. :-) I'll try it tomorrow, but I'm pretty certain that is precisely what my problem was. The fact that I didn't think of it is rather embarrassing. Well don't feel that way yet because I might be wrong and it might be something else that is causing the problem you are having. :) Turns out that wasn't the solution. I had to kldload atapicam for it to work. Thanks, though. You reminded me to never forget the simple things. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Can't burn cds
On 27/07/2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? The device listed by camcontrol seems to be an external hard drive. That said, I think it's possible for camcontrol to talk to IDE devices via atapicam. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fstab and in order to use k3b, I had to mount the CD on the command line first. It won't work if the CD is not mounted first, it's not as easy as it is in Linux, but it works. Have you read the k3b pkg-message? You can find it in k3b port directory. It contains detailed step-by-step instructions about how to allow a non-privileged user to mount what they need. It works just fine. Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
--On July 27, 2007 2:07:47 AM + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fstab and in order to use k3b, I had to mount the CD on the command line first. It won't work if the CD is not mounted first, it's not as easy as it is in Linux, but it works. Thanks a lot. You've made me feel like a complete idiot. :-) I'll try it tomorrow, but I'm pretty certain that is precisely what my problem was. The fact that I didn't think of it is rather embarrassing. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Can't burn cds
Paul Schmehl wrote: Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. uname -v FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Wed Feb 14 12:22:36 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC grep cd /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: DVDROM HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0D20 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd1: CDRW TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B/DE03 at ata0-slave UDMA33 camcontrol devlist Maxtor 3200 0344 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) camcontrol inquiry 0:0:0 pass0: Maxtor 3200 0344 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device pass0: Serial Number 2CAH3H6P pass0: 40.000MB/s transfers camcontrol inquiry 0:1:0 camcontrol: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 0:1:0 camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: Maxtor 3200 0344 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device pass0: Serial Number 2CAH3H6P pass0: 40.000MB/s transfers camcontrol inquiry da1 camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel cam_lookup_pass: or da1 doesn't exist ls /dev/acd* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd1 cdcontrol -f /dev/acd1 Compact Disc Control utility, version 2.0 Type `?' for command list cdcontrol eject cdcontrol close cdcontrol info cdcontrol: getting toc header: Input/output error cdcontrol: Input/output error burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data /home/pauls/Downloads/RedHat/RHEL4-U5-x86_64-ES-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error What the heck is going on? The device is there. Dmesg shows that the kernel knows what it is. Yet I can't read or write cds, and, as you can see, camcontrol thinks it's non-existant. Yet cdcontrol will open and close the drive but can't provide any info??? What am I missing? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. It's hard to see without the propmpts, but are you trying to use burncd as root? A normal user isn't going to have the neccessary privs. to write a cd by default. cdcontrol is simply telling you it can't read the TOC of the cd in the drive, presumably because there's no cd in it. I haven't used cdcontrol in ages, but it's possible it needs root (in the case that you were using it as a normal user with a disk in the drive) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
On Thu Jul 26, 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. [...] burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data /home/pauls/Downloads/RedHat/RHEL4-U5-x86_64-ES-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error What the heck is going on? The device is there. Dmesg shows that the kernel knows what it is. Yet I can't read or write cds, and, as you can see, camcontrol thinks it's non-existant. Yet cdcontrol will open and close the drive but can't provide any info??? What am I missing? Well, I'm using 6.2-RELEASE/amd64, and I get those same Input/ouput error messages. However, the discs I have burned all worked fine, so I've assumed it was just something the program tries to test for or request info on, but can continue without. Have you checked whether the burned discs actually work? Cheers, -bkc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
--On July 26, 2007 2:34:23 PM -0700 Bruce Caruthers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm using 6.2-RELEASE/amd64, and I get those same Input/ouput error messages. However, the discs I have burned all worked fine, so I've assumed it was just something the program tries to test for or request info on, but can continue without. Have you checked whether the burned discs actually work? They're not being burned at all. After the ioctl error message, the program returns to the prompt. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Can't burn cds
--On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only knows about SCSI. So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? It's hard to see without the propmpts, but are you trying to use burncd as root? A normal user isn't going to have the neccessary privs. to write a cd by default. Yes. All the commands were typed as root. cdcontrol is simply telling you it can't read the TOC of the cd in the drive, presumably because there's no cd in it. There was a cd in the drive - a blank one I was trying to write to. I haven't used cdcontrol in ages, but it's possible it needs root (in the case that you were using it as a normal user with a disk in the drive) All commands were typed as root. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Can't burn cds
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. uname -v FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Wed Feb 14 12:22:36 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC grep cd /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: DVDROM HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0D20 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd1: CDRW TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B/DE03 at ata0-slave UDMA33 camcontrol devlist Maxtor 3200 0344 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) camcontrol inquiry 0:0:0 pass0: Maxtor 3200 0344 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device pass0: Serial Number 2CAH3H6P pass0: 40.000MB/s transfers camcontrol inquiry 0:1:0 camcontrol: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 0:1:0 camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: Maxtor 3200 0344 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device pass0: Serial Number 2CAH3H6P pass0: 40.000MB/s transfers camcontrol inquiry da1 camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel cam_lookup_pass: or da1 doesn't exist ls /dev/acd* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd1 cdcontrol -f /dev/acd1 Compact Disc Control utility, version 2.0 Type `?' for command list cdcontrol eject cdcontrol close cdcontrol info cdcontrol: getting toc header: Input/output error cdcontrol: Input/output error burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data /home/pauls/Downloads/RedHat/RHEL4-U5-x86_64-ES-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error What the heck is going on? The device is there. Dmesg shows that the kernel knows what it is. Yet I can't read or write cds, and, as you can see, camcontrol thinks it's non-existant. Yet cdcontrol will open and close the drive but can't provide any info??? What am I missing? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Can't burn cds
On Friday 27 July 2007 02:38:31 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 27, 2007 2:07:47 AM + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fstab and in order to use k3b, I had to mount the CD on the command line first. It won't work if the CD is not mounted first, it's not as easy as it is in Linux, but it works. Thanks a lot. You've made me feel like a complete idiot. :-) I'll try it tomorrow, but I'm pretty certain that is precisely what my problem was. The fact that I didn't think of it is rather embarrassing. Well don't feel that way yet because I might be wrong and it might be something else that is causing the problem you are having. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't burn cds
I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fstab and in order to use k3b, I had to mount the CD on the command line first. It won't work if the CD is not mounted first, it's not as easy as it is in Linux, but it works. The pertinent sections of my fstab: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/cd0 /usr/home/pollywog/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0 I also had to add myself (my username) to the operator group. To make it more convenient, I added an alias in my ~/.bash_aliases: alias mountcd='mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 ~/cdrom' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
Op dinsdag 27 maart 2007, schreef stefan broos: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a Dutch webshop [1] providing all kinds of Linux distributions and FreeBSD on CD. The website tells me he has 6.1 available, but I'd assume 6.2 should be available as well if you contact the shop owner. I have good experience with the shop (and the owner is a good fellow :) [1] http://www.munnikes.nl Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sample cds
I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:25 PM, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Have fun. You're welcome to download and burn the FreeBSD ISO images yourself: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html You probably want to grab the 6.2 x86 image -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
You can download the ISO images and make all you want. -Derek At 05:25 PM 3/26/2007, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Sure. Just download the ISO image and burn all the CDs you want. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:25:15AM +0200, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan As others have noted, you can download and burn the ISO's. Another option is a live CD, such as FreeSBIE. See http://www.freesbie.org for all the details. -- Kelly D. Grills [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp5SxgCeRQqy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sample cds
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:25:15AM +0200, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? You are welcome to make your own. It is legal. Specifically, download the disc2 ISO and burn it to a CD. That one has both the installation system and also a 'fixit' version that contains most of a basic FreeBSD system that you can run from the CD and memory. Just make sure you burn it as a straight image to the CD and don't use any parameters that attempt to convert it in any way. The file you download is already converted to an ISO and ready to burn as is. Note, though that FreeBSD is its own UNIX and not Linux. Its history actually reaches back farther than Linux. jerry Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Hello Frank, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote: snip FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree: FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz FS (warning! 35MB compressed) Will do when I have Internet connection via FreeBSD box. Need to set up ADSL connection - am currently reading about that process. Also, need to figure out how USB gets set up properly. But these are two separate issues that I will probably be asking about in the very near future ... if I haven't managed to make any real progress in these areas. FS and: FS # mv ports.tar.gz /usr/ports FS # cd /usr/ports FS # tar xvzf ports.tar.gz FS to build sudo, first check that there's nothing funny with building FS sudo: FS $ cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep sudo FS if there's nothing then: FS # cd /usr/ports/security/sudo/ FS # make install clean Thanks for the detailed steps. FS Then read the handbook about keeping your ports tree up to date using FS portsnap or cvsup. Will do. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all ... snip FS That's OK. I usually post to the list and cc to the person who posted FS in the first place as they may not be subscribed to the list. Yes, this was my line of thinking, but don't want to upset anyone as I am a newbie here. ;) FS Welcome to FreeBSD! Thanks. Appreciate it, Frank. -- Best regards, ograbme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent their inclusion.) Because since the release CD was cut, the porters have been tirelessly porting new software and updating existing software - the ports tree is pretty much in a constant state of growth and development. As soon as the release is cut, the included ports tree is out of date. -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgps591PQcSnj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:19:22AM -0400, ograbme wrote: Hello Frank, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote: snip FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree: FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz FS (warning! 35MB compressed) Will do when I have Internet connection via FreeBSD box. Need to set up ADSL connection - am currently reading about that process. Also, need to figure out how USB gets set up properly. But these are two separate issues that I will probably be asking about in the very near future ... if I haven't managed to make any real progress in these areas. I didn't realise you didn't have a network connection yet! For usb, you need: usbd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf The handbook is your best bet to get your network connection going. Any problems, just post here. FS and: FS # mv ports.tar.gz /usr/ports FS # cd /usr/ports FS # tar xvzf ports.tar.gz FS to build sudo, first check that there's nothing funny with building FS sudo: FS $ cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep sudo FS if there's nothing then: FS # cd /usr/ports/security/sudo/ FS # make install clean Thanks for the detailed steps. FS Then read the handbook about keeping your ports tree up to date using FS portsnap or cvsup. Will do. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all ... snip FS That's OK. I usually post to the list and cc to the person who posted FS in the first place as they may not be subscribed to the list. Yes, this was my line of thinking, but don't want to upset anyone as I am a newbie here. ;) Yeah, it always helps if you don't piss off everybody when you're tring to get help ;) FS Welcome to FreeBSD! Thanks. Appreciate it, Frank. No worries. BTW, you can get back to the installer with: # /stand/sysinstall and from there with your discs you can install a limited amount of ports/packages. Best of luck with it. It will take you some blood, sweat and tears to familiarise yourself with FreeBSD but once you've gone through the initial learning process and setting up the basics such as networking and email, it's very easy to maintain your system and install software - much easier than Linux IMHO. The ports system for application software and buildkernel/buildworld for upgrading your base system are very effective. -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What is the purpose of Disc2 and what can I do with it. I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. Does Disc2 contain some of the ports collection? Finally, what is the ports collection? Cheers! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What is the purpose of Disc2 and what can I do with it. I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. Does Disc2 contain some of the ports collection? Finally, what is the ports collection? To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to install software from source that does not come as part of the base distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD installs itself to directories in / and /usr. The base distribution includes stuff like the X Window System, but not KDE, Firefox or MH, the mail handler. These latter three are available as ports, which when compiled go into /usr/local by default on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox and type: $ make install clean (note you need to have Linux compatibility already installed and turned on to make this work). ($ stands for the prompt, as you probably know); make reads the Makefile, and according to instructions in it, downloads the sources and compiles them; make install and make clean (given here in shorthand) respectively install the compiled port and clean up after make. The alternative way to install software is from packages, which are pre-compiled ports. You can use sysinstall to install them, or pkg_add from the commandline. Disc2 mostly contains some of these packages (others are on Disc1). Cheers You're welcome! Jeff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:41, Jeff Rollin wrote: To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to install software from source that does not come as part of the base distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD installs itself to directories in / and /usr. The base distribution includes stuff like the X Window System, but not KDE, Firefox or MH, the mail handler. The base system doesn't include X Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- That sentence was intended not to mean you have to install XWS as a package from sysinstall but It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a package built from ports. Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:29, Jeff Rollin wrote: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). That's actually my biggest problem with sysinstall, that it's standard installation mixes-up base system options and package options. I only use sysinstall once in a blue moon, and I find that Choose Distributions menu, baffling - even though I know what I want installed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:03:47 PM, Jeff confabulated: On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- That sentence was intended not to mean you have to install XWS as a package from sysinstall but It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a package built from ports. I wasn't for sure as I don't install many things using sysinstall. Thanks for clarifying. -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. snip I too took this same approach as the box I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release is not hooked up to the Internet. I bypassed installing the Ports collection. The installation went well and I have been refamiliarizing myself with Unix CLI commands and reading bits and pieces of documentation here and there. FreeBSD is pretty neat and has quite a few subtle differences from systems I worked on some years back, i.e., Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Anyway, now I would like to install the ports collection without having to reinstall the whole system again, if possible, thus my interest in this thread. For instance, I decided I wanted to install sudo ... snip JR The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports JR collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories JR (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports JR collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use JR with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox JR and type: JR $ make install clean Using the above info, I created /usr/ports directory (/usr was there, but not /ports of course as I hadn't installed the Ports collection). I created another directory under /usr/ports/ named /sudo, thus resulting in /usr/ports/sudo. I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, sudo can only be installed via the pkg-add route per your mention below? I invoked sysinstall, but didn't see right away anything clearly indicating the path to take in resolving my dilemma. I'll keep reading and trying and may be stumble across the proper way to accomplish this, but all the while monitoring this email list for further enlightenment. Then again, may be I should just do a complete new install and select Yes to installing the Ports collection at that time, huh? Nah, one has to mess up to learn! And trust me, I've learned quite a bit by reading yours and others comments and suggestions. Thank for all of you being so willing to share your knowledge. Thanks in advance. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all (to both Jeff and the list) for my first submission. However, perhaps I should of only replied to the list to eliminate unnecessary traffic. snip JR ($ stands for the prompt, as you probably know); make reads the Makefile, JR and according to instructions in it, downloads the sources and compiles JR them; make install and make clean (given here in shorthand) respectively JR install the compiled port and clean up after make. JR The alternative way to install software is from packages, which are JR pre-compiled ports. You can use sysinstall to install them, or pkg_add from JR the commandline. Disc2 mostly contains some of these packages (others are on JR Disc1). snip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:02, ograbme wrote: I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, The ports collection is a set of recipes that enable the the ports system to automatically fetch the source, extract it, patch it, build and install the result. You can do all this manually, but it's often not straightforward. And the added advantage is that software that's installed through the ports system is also registered in the package database- making it easier to deinstall and upgrade. Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the rest of the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Perry Hutchison wrote: Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the rest of the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[4]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jeff, First of all ... thanks for your help and suggestions ... please see comments interwoven below. Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:20:51 PM, you wrote: snip JR You need to go back into sysinstall and install the ports JR collection. That will give you the framework for downloading JR ports, but you will not be able to install them without network JR access. Understand. JR If you want to install a package, the easiest way without JR network access is to go back into sysinstall and choose it from JR the Packages item. But, if the package you want is not available JR on the FreeBSD install discs (if you need to eject one and insert JR the other, it will tell you to), and you don't have a network JR connection, I'm afraid you're out of luck. This is the approach I took. All looked like it was going well until the point of needing to switch cdroms. Couldn't do it. My cdrom would not eject so I could switch CDROMs. Not sure what the problem was/is, but got to thinking because it was mounted, i.e., mount /cdrom manually initially by me before starting the sysinstall command. Anyone I just ignored trying to install those packages that I had selected and eventually finished up, but when finished, I could not find the /usr/ports directory ... even though sysinstall reported individually the selected packages were installed properly during the process. Oh well, something went awry. I'll try again with hopefully only selecting items from one cdrom to try to control the process in that regard and see if I experience the same result. JR If there's nothing else wrong with your system, you don't JR need to reinstall; just type sysinstall as the root user and JR you're in. I cannot with certainly vouch there is nothing wrong with my system. It hasn't locked up; it hasn't conked out on me; I've been able to do a number of things (albeit they are cursory type things ... nothing big ... executing various Unix commands, creating a few small C programs and compiling them with gcc tool, etc) thus far, without incident. JR BTW, I would delete your manually-created /usr/ports JR directory and everything in it, just in case. I did this prior to the above steps. The release I have installed is FreeBSD 6.1 Release #0 May 07 ... perhaps this is part of the problems I'm experiencing. I bought the FreeBSD Mall 4 CDROM, May 2006 set. May be I need to try to get a newer version. I think I saw where there is some release #2 mentioned by various list members. I suppose I could download it from the web site and burn it. I'd only need the first cdrom, right? Thanks in advance. While I may not be making leaps and bounds, I do feel I'm making some headway! Take care. This sounds like a bug to me; before you do anything else I would: 1. Make sure there is no /usr/ports directory; 2. Insert the FBSD CDROM, *without mounting it* 3. Run sysinstall and attempt to install the ports tree again. If this doesn't work, I would download the FBSD 6.1 CD from a mirror (it was 6.1 you were using, wasn't it?), burn it, and reinstall. If you are sure you don't need any packages from CD2, you can forgo downloading and burning that one. In fact if you have the net connection (and the patience), you can download a bootonly iso that, when used to boot the system, downloads everything else needed from the net. HTH (especially as if it does not, I'm out of ideas! :-/) BTW, if you DO end up reinstalling, make sure you reformat your partitions, as I have sometimes run out of space when attempting to reinstall on partitions with data still on them. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent their inclusion.) I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet connection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Perry Hutchison wrote: ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent their inclusion.) I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet connection. You've asked a question, given some clarification as to what you are referring to, and I can tell you I don't have anything other than possibilities - which may be far from the truth - as to why this is. You're referring to a 4 CD set, that can't be downloaded from FreeBSD.org, that has to come from somewhere else, such as the FreeBSD Mall or somewhere else. I would use that if I couldn't connect to the Internet at all. Maybe, I should say: I can't tell you why it is that way. I've never been very concerned about it, just understood that it was that way and lived with it. I've never had a problem with an up-to-date ports tree not playing nicely with a RELEASE or a STABLE install. I suspect the reason is that I just never happened to up-date the ports tree at a time when there were problems. It does happen at times, but then... You've probably heard the advice somethings wrong with your ports tree, blow it off and re-install it. It's not a big problem to deal with, the problem comes when you need to do it and don't. Sysinstall only asks if you want to install the ports tree. If I was going to update it with cvsup, I would install it from there. I use portsnap, so I don't install it from the CD. Yes, I have a hi-speed connection. It makes things easier. I wouldn't be without it. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:02:33PM -0400, ograbme wrote: Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. snip I too took this same approach as the box I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release is not hooked up to the Internet. I bypassed installing the Ports collection. The installation went well and I have been refamiliarizing myself with Unix CLI commands and reading bits and pieces of documentation here and there. FreeBSD is pretty neat and has quite a few subtle differences from systems I worked on some years back, i.e., Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Anyway, now I would like to install the ports collection without having to reinstall the whole system again, if possible, thus my interest in this thread. For instance, I decided I wanted to install sudo ... snip JR The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports JR collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories JR (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports JR collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use JR with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox JR and type: JR $ make install clean Using the above info, I created /usr/ports directory (/usr was there, but not /ports of course as I hadn't installed the Ports collection). I created another directory under /usr/ports/ named /sudo, thus resulting in /usr/ports/sudo. I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, sudo can only be installed via the pkg-add route per your mention below? I invoked sysinstall, but didn't see right away anything clearly indicating the path to take in resolving my dilemma. I'll keep reading and trying and may be stumble across the proper way to accomplish this, but all the while monitoring this email list for further enlightenment. Then again, may be I should just do a complete new install and select Yes to installing the Ports collection at that time, huh? Nah, one has to mess up to learn! And trust me, I've learned quite a bit by reading yours and others comments and suggestions. Thank for all of you being so willing to share your knowledge. Thanks in advance. Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree: $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz (warning! 35MB compressed) and: # mv ports.tar.gz /usr/ports # cd /usr/ports # tar xvzf ports.tar.gz to build sudo, first check that there's nothing funny with building sudo: $ cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep sudo if there's nothing then: # cd /usr/ports/security/sudo/ # make install clean Then read the handbook about keeping your ports tree up to date using portsnap or cvsup. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all (to both Jeff and the list) for my first submission. However, perhaps I should of only replied to the list to eliminate unnecessary traffic. snip That's OK. I usually post to the list and cc to the person who posted in the first place as they may not be subscribed to the list. Welcome to FreeBSD! -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
I got the audio CD to be working fine. Still no luck with the DVD burning in fluxbox. Cannot/do not want to use and KDE or Gnome tools. Anyone has experience with prodvd for xcdroast? Thanks. On 9/1/06, Wei Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount your CD, change to the mount point, then, for example, issue the command: gmaplyer *.mp3 On 8/31/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
I use fluxbox :( no kde On 8/31/06, Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? KsCD in KDE environment. You don't need to mount an AudioCD. Make sure you connected your CD/DVD device audio output to the sound card. Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? Try k3b. I like it. Thanks in advance. Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
mount your CD, change to the mount point, then, for example, issue the command: gmaplyer *.mp3 On 8/31/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
--- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? KsCD in KDE environment. You don't need to mount an AudioCD. Make sure you connected your CD/DVD device audio output to the sound card. Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? Try k3b. I like it. Thanks in advance. Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
At 2006-08-10T23:05:40+05:30, Viswas Nair wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? You can use the `audio/xmms-cdread' port. See [Handbook, Chapter 7] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html and Dru Lavigne, `Using sound on FreeBSD', http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? Perhaps `cdrecord' from the `sysutils/cdrtools' port. See [Handbook, Section 17.6] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Playing Audio CDs
I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing Audio CDs
--- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be mounted, if so how? Is there any specific audio alone CD player (GUI based) that you suggest? I think KDE autodetects and plays audio CDs. Did you try it? Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? There are quite a few of them. If you want a simple cmd line utility I like cdrdao if u r talking of audio or VCDS. It can also blank CDs. There are any GUI tools like xcdroast, graveman cdrecord... I think cdrecord is the most used backend. May u shud read man cdrecord... Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mac Newbold wrote: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. The following contains a very short and good explanation on audio disc protections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection#Copy_protection_for_audio_CDs Also, I did not specifically mention FreeBSD or any other OSes. I just merely said some of them (discs) even crash computers. Not only FreeBSDs are out there. For example, my Mac won't accept Linkin Park's Meteora, Jack Johnson's On and On or Missy Elliot's This is not a Test. They get spat out right away. I tried to extract tracks off those discs on FreeBSD but I get the very same errors you get. My car's player goes nuts trying to play Korn's Greatest Hits Vol.1 last track. Years ago, every time I wanted to put something onto my MD player I had to duplicate the disc on Windows first and then put it through Sony's patented/protected/secure software. Otherwise it would just freeze on last tracks (note: some enhanced discs, not all of them). Also, as Fabian said, by copying you even get better discs. I agree. I duplicate all problematic discs so my Mac will accept them as well as my car's player. In short, everything depends on your hardware, software and media you're trying to copy. The protection mainly is based on errors and faults on a disc that try to confuse your CD drive and not your CD player. This is where software comes into play and saves the day. Your results may vary. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Yesterday at 4:23pm, Mac Newbold said: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks to everyone who has contributed answers to this thread. (BTW, it is helpful if you keep me cc'd in your replies, since I'm not on the list itself and only see responses when I go check the archive.) To answer some of the questions that came up: 1. It never happens on any plain/normal/non-enhanced audio CD I've tried, which I'm quite sure might include some that are copy protected or have some kind of DRM in place. 2. None of them have said anything about being non-functional or limited with certain computer players or operating systems that I have noticed. If we can, I'd like to take this discussion in a slightly different direction. Let's change our thinking by making the following assumptions: A. It is not a DRM or copy protection scheme causing the errors. B. Since it happens on every enhanced CD (i.e. one containing audio tracks and a data track meant to be read on a computer) that I've been able to try, but not on any non-enhanced CDs, of which I've tested many hundreds, let's assume it is related to the fact that it is enhanced. By combining assumption A and assumption B, I'm led to the conclusion that there is something about Enhanced CDs that is causing FreeBSD to get unrecoverable errors that lead inevitably to a system crash. Namely, it generates READ_CD Hardware Error messages, followed by a series of READ_CD Illegal Request messages immediately prior to the crash. Does anyone have some ideas (other than copy protection or DRM) on why this might be happening or what might be done to solve the problem? Does anyone have some ideas of other places or lists where I might ask a similar question and be more likely to get closer to solving the problem? Thanks again, Mac -- Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mac Newbold wrote: Yesterday at 4:23pm, Mac Newbold said: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks to everyone who has contributed answers to this thread. (BTW, it is helpful if you keep me cc'd in your replies, since I'm not on the list itself and only see responses when I go check the archive.) To answer some of the questions that came up: 1. It never happens on any plain/normal/non-enhanced audio CD I've tried, which I'm quite sure might include some that are copy protected or have some kind of DRM in place. 2. None of them have said anything about being non-functional or limited with certain computer players or operating systems that I have noticed. If we can, I'd like to take this discussion in a slightly different direction. Let's change our thinking by making the following assumptions: A. It is not a DRM or copy protection scheme causing the errors. B. Since it happens on every enhanced CD (i.e. one containing audio tracks and a data track meant to be read on a computer) that I've been able to try, but not on any non-enhanced CDs, of which I've tested many hundreds, let's assume it is related to the fact that it is enhanced. By combining assumption A and assumption B, I'm led to the conclusion that there is something about Enhanced CDs that is causing FreeBSD to get unrecoverable errors that lead inevitably to a system crash. Namely, it generates READ_CD Hardware Error messages, followed by a series of READ_CD Illegal Request messages immediately prior to the crash. Does anyone have some ideas (other than copy protection or DRM) on why this might be happening or what might be done to solve the problem? Does anyone have some ideas of other places or lists where I might ask a similar question and be more likely to get closer to solving the problem? Thanks again, Mac Ok then... what is the CD drive and model? -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mac Newbold wrote: Yesterday at 4:23pm, Mac Newbold said: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks to everyone who has contributed answers to this thread. (BTW, it is helpful if you keep me cc'd in your replies, since I'm not on the list itself and only see responses when I go check the archive.) To answer some of the questions that came up: 1. It never happens on any plain/normal/non-enhanced audio CD I've tried, which I'm quite sure might include some that are copy protected or have some kind of DRM in place. 2. None of them have said anything about being non-functional or limited with certain computer players or operating systems that I have noticed. If we can, I'd like to take this discussion in a slightly different direction. Let's change our thinking by making the following assumptions: A. It is not a DRM or copy protection scheme causing the errors. B. Since it happens on every enhanced CD (i.e. one containing audio tracks and a data track meant to be read on a computer) that I've been able to try, but not on any non-enhanced CDs, of which I've tested many hundreds, let's assume it is related to the fact that it is enhanced. By combining assumption A and assumption B, I'm led to the conclusion that there is something about Enhanced CDs that is causing FreeBSD to get unrecoverable errors that lead inevitably to a system crash. Namely, it generates READ_CD Hardware Error messages, followed by a series of READ_CD Illegal Request messages immediately prior to the crash. Does anyone have some ideas (other than copy protection or DRM) on why this might be happening or what might be done to solve the problem? Does anyone have some ideas of other places or lists where I might ask a similar question and be more likely to get closer to solving the problem? Thanks again, Mac -- Mac NewboldMNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.macnewbold.com/ I can confirm that enhanced CDs do not rip properly on FreeBSD 6.1 with cdparanoia -B. cdparanoia reports a bunch of V's (Uncorrected error/skip) and my messages log is FILLED (74MB) with thousands of the following errors: Jun 16 12:00:00 trisha kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE That's just one of nearly 88,000 similar lines from messages. But I do NOT get a reboot/crash, just thousands of errors and a silent rip of the track. This is on a NEC DVD RW ND-3520AW/3.05 accessed via /dev/acd0 The CDs I used are very unlikely to have any DRM or copy protection as they are circa 1998 CDs. Three CDs tried, all three had the error near the data track. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mac Newbold wrote: This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) Does anyone know what causes this or what the fix is? Has anyone else had this problem and found a suitable workaround? Right now the only workaround I've found is to start ripping the track, and let it crash the computer, then encode the track when it boots back up. Not a very happy workaround, as I have to fsck every time. :( Any help or suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mac -- Mac NewboldMNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.macnewbold.com/ ___ well, it has happened to me last week. but until now i've been under impression it was because of copy-protection. but hey, it happened right there before the end of the last track which was followed by data track. the cd was depeche mode playing the angel from 2005. the cover says it's copy protected. still i haven't had any issue grabbing the whole disc but the last track. crashing my system is very bad indeed. shouldn't happen, never. the sw used was abcde with cdparanoia. regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Hello, I don't know if this is related to the topic under discussion, but i'm trying to rip a new CD it contains both video and audio and i'm stuck on track 13. In my /var/log/messages i'm seeing this, and then the msg Last message repeated 300 times and as the system tries to read and writes out the message to syslog the machine gets slower and slower. This is on a 6.1 box, and i never let it go long enough for a crash. Thanks. Dave. Jun 16 19:55:25 zeus kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=4ABORTED Jun 16 19:55:57 zeus last message repeated 338 times - Original Message - From: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:21 PM Subject: Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs Mac Newbold wrote: This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) Does anyone know what causes this or what the fix is? Has anyone else had this problem and found a suitable workaround? Right now the only workaround I've found is to start ripping the track, and let it crash the computer, then encode the track when it boots back up. Not a very happy workaround, as I have to fsck every time. :( Any help or suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mac -- Mac NewboldMNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.macnewbold.com/ ___ well, it has happened to me last week. but until now i've been under impression it was because of copy-protection. but hey, it happened right there before the end of the last track which was followed by data track. the cd was depeche mode playing the angel from 2005. the cover says it's copy protected. still i haven't had any issue grabbing the whole disc but the last track. crashing my system is very bad indeed. shouldn't happen, never. the sw used was abcde with cdparanoia. regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Mac Newbold wrote: This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) Does anyone know what causes this or what the fix is? Has anyone else had this problem and found a suitable workaround? Right now the only workaround I've found is to start ripping the track, and let it crash the computer, then encode the track when it boots back up. Not a very happy workaround, as I have to fsck every time. :( Any help or suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated! Hi, This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. Cheers, Mikhail. Like Mikhail was mentioning, the DMCA appears to be in your way; many companies thought it was necessary to copyright protect CDs and they have accomplished that feat by added various protection features to CDs, some of which are intentional CD track errors. The best way I've found with dealing with these types of issues is to use a program like iTunes to rip the content, since it will happily unlock the CD and encode in mp3 or mp4 format-which is fairly lossless-and I can go from there. Best of luck with that, - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkRd56CkrZkzMC68RAq5hAJ0ZbRUK4ijSymor2NcXamGzsCbWQwCffOV9 E2duEPHg8NiTg6D4fpdRCQQ= =a5fG -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac Newbold wrote: I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. Can you name a few discs that crashed your system? I copied quite a bit non standard discs with cdda2wav on FreeBSD and never saw a single crash. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Fabian Keil wrote: This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. Can you name a few discs that crashed your system? I copied quite a bit non standard discs with cdda2wav on FreeBSD and never saw a single crash. Probably I should have been more specific with crashing computers. Personally, I haven't come across such discs. There was some issue with Sony's discs a few years ago doing some serious damage to iMacs. There are also many discs with a will not play on pc/mac warning or similar and apparently they cause havoc as well. Obviously effects vary depending on OSes. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabian Keil wrote: This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. Can you name a few discs that crashed your system? I copied quite a bit non standard discs with cdda2wav on FreeBSD and never saw a single crash. Probably I should have been more specific with crashing computers. Personally, I haven't come across such discs. There was some issue with Sony's discs a few years ago doing some serious damage to iMacs. There are also many discs with a will not play on pc/mac warning or similar and apparently they cause havoc as well. Obviously effects vary depending on OSes. Usually will not play on pc/mac only means will not play on pc/mac if the system is misconfigured or the user was stupid enough to install our broken drivers. If the disc can be played in some CD players, there shouldn't be a problem copying the audio tracks either. Most of the time computer drives have better error correction than CD players, rereading some sectors isn't an issue and after copying you even get better disc. Original: http://www.fabiankeil.de/blog-surrogat/2005/11/18/air-talkie-walkie-c1-scan-2005-11-14.png Copy (without the data track): http://www.fabiankeil.de/bilder/cddoctor/a-tws32.png My CD player wasn't able to properly play the original version, but the copy played just fine. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Like Mikhail was mentioning, the DMCA appears to be in your way; many companies thought it was necessary to copyright protect CDs and they have accomplished that feat by added various protection features to CDs, some of which are intentional CD track errors. Are those even CD's? IIRC they cant use the compact disc logo or even the name.. lets do the world a favor and boycott those little shine wannebe cdd :) Are you talking about copy protected cds? FYI i have no problems ripping audio cds with data tracks using abcde cdparanoia. -- Øyvind Skaar | os guesswhat odots.org | http://odots.org http://last.fm/user/%67%69%7A%7A%6C%6Fn | http://43things.com/person/%C3%B8s 6865792c207768617420646f20796f75206b6e6f772c 796f752772652061206e65726420746f6f202e2e ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks, Mac -- Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mac Newbold wrote: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks, Mac -- Mac NewboldMNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.macnewbold.com/ Does the packaging explicitly say this CD will only work in Windows or have similar notes on it? Macs aren't supported in the anti-piracy CDs produced by sony (and other Japanese groups) at least, so that's an easy sign that you have a copy-protected CD. Also, if you can't open up the CD using Winamp version 5.0 in Windows or copy the tracks using CD burning software like Nero or Roxio, the CD's definitely copy-protected. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkeph6CkrZkzMC68RArI2AJ9wunFhhH4Mk71NsZtvEOLeIl1U9ACfZaaq +ClMaDnPyShA0m3jSAe3J6s= =L9nj -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mac Newbold wrote: Today at 2:55pm, Mikhail Goriachev said: Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. I am pretty sure this isn't an anti-piracy feature. It happens to me with _any_ enhanced CD (audio+data mixed CD), and _only_ on enhanced CDs. Never has it happened to me on any non-enhanced audio CD. My problem is not with the inability to get the data off, that doesn't seem to be a real issue. The problem is with the crashing of the computer. Why should _any_ data read from a removable disk of any kind be causing FreeBSD to crash by the mere act of attempting to read it from the disk? The device is reporting a failure, but why isn't the OS handling that failure gracefully? If I'm asking the wrong list, and should be asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some list related to multimedia, please let me know. Thanks, Mac -- Mac NewboldMNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.macnewbold.com/ Does the packaging explicitly say this CD will only work in Windows or have similar notes on it? Macs aren't supported in the anti-piracy CDs produced by sony (and other Japanese groups) at least, so that's an easy sign that you have a copy-protected CD. Also, if you can't open up the CD using Winamp version 5.0 in Windows or copy the tracks using CD burning software like Nero or Roxio, the CD's definitely copy-protected. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkeph6CkrZkzMC68RArI2AJ9wunFhhH4Mk71NsZtvEOLeIl1U9ACfZaaq +ClMaDnPyShA0m3jSAe3J6s= =L9nj -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The excellent Grip cd-ripper for Linux/BSD (http://nostatic.org/grip/) has never failed me yet, despite all sorts of awful DRM software the CD might be packed with. It's a brilliant piece of software, I rank it as the best out there without question! :) -- Dag Rune Sneeggen Romolslia 23B 7029 Trondheim NORWAY -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://my.opera.com/duddev/blog/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ripping enhanced audio CDs
This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) Does anyone know what causes this or what the fix is? Has anyone else had this problem and found a suitable workaround? Right now the only workaround I've found is to start ripping the track, and let it crash the computer, then encode the track when it boots back up. Not a very happy workaround, as I have to fsck every time. :( Any help or suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mac -- Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ripping enhanced audio CDs
Mac Newbold wrote: This has finally caused me enough grief that I'm going to ask about it and see if there's something I'm doing wrong or some nice solution to this really annyoing problem. I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to rip an enhanced CD that has one or more data tracks along with the audio tracks, it crashes the computer when it gets near the enhanced tracks. It has happened on a wide variety of CDs, all enhanced, and over a long period of time. It is very repeatable. Even if I ask the ripper to rip only the track prior to the enhanced track, it still crashes when it gets about 90-95% through the track. Even if I try to break out at that point, it still crashes the box. Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x01 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:21 mybox kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0 Jun 14 11:27:22 mybox last message repeated 11 times I know has happened to me on both CD-ROM/RW drives and on my atapicam DVD+/-RW drive. I seem to remember it happening on 4-STABLE boxes too, with widely different hardware (different mobo makers, chipsets, etc.) Does anyone know what causes this or what the fix is? Has anyone else had this problem and found a suitable workaround? Right now the only workaround I've found is to start ripping the track, and let it crash the computer, then encode the track when it boots back up. Not a very happy workaround, as I have to fsck every time. :( Any help or suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated! Hi, This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even crash computers when loading. How silly is that? Programs like CloneCD can handle such things on Windows boxes. That is what I use after having long frustrated sessions with open-source tools. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Writing CDs on a DVD drive.
It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that burncd doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks of specific DVD media types but not CDs. Is cdrecord a suitable tool for this purpose? And a (sort of) related question, will growisofs write double or dual layer DVDs? The man page does make mention of a write limit of 4+GB but I see this can be turned off. Is this enough to enable writing dual/double layer medis? Are there more suitable utilities executing these tasks? I'm not looking for GUI wrappers for command line utilities but the base level utilities. Any help appreciated. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
