DVD-RAM on FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
Today I by coincidence found myself with DVD-RAM disk. Given that my DVD drive ( NEC DVD_RW ND-4571A 1-01 ) should be able to work with DVD-RAM disks my curiosity got the best of me. Currently running FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Fri Dec 22 17:16:16 CET

DVD-RAM: multi-session writing

2002-09-09 Thread Charles Peterman
FreeBSD 4.5. Hitachi DVD-RAM drive I have to support writing files to a DVD-RAM in a Windows compatible mode. Normally I would treat the thing as a slow HD and read and write at my leisure, but Windows does not play nicely with UFS. So I came upon the solution of writing an ISO image out

Re: DVD-RAM: multi-session writing

2002-09-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 13:34:28 -0400, Charles Peterman wrote: FreeBSD 4.5. Hitachi DVD-RAM drive I have to support writing files to a DVD-RAM in a Windows compatible mode. Normally I would treat the thing as a slow HD and read and write at my leisure, but Windows does not play nicely

[patch] error with newfs_msdos on DVD-RAM patch

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Herman
Howdy Hackers, I have a DVD-RAM: cd0 at sym0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 cd0: MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-D200 A120 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-4 device cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 16) dd(1), newfs(8), mount(8) et. al. work just great on it, except for newfs_msdos(8): bash-2.05# newfs_msdos

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-07 Thread ycheng
In article 199907070339.vaa88...@panzer.kdm.org you wrote: 3.5 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). The CAM DA driver was specifically designed to handle various sector sizes, and should work fine with non-512 byte

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-07 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
ychengIn article 199907070339.vaa88...@panzer.kdm.org you wrote: ycheng 3.5 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, ycheng 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). Ofcouse, my typo: 512KB/sector - 512B/sector, 2048KB/sector - 2048B/sector ycheng The CAM DA driver

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-07 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
is like as OD devices. Some DVD-RAM/MO/PD drives are recognized as DA and others are CD. For example, A PD media is used as a DA on PD drives. The PD media is used as a CD on DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM drives. It is very confusing. Sometime we want to disable booting from these devices. The reason why we

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
. Thank you for your answer. I think this situation is like as OD devices. Some DVD-RAM/MO/PD drives are recognized as DA and others are CD. For example, A PD media is used as a DA on PD drives. The PD media is used as a CD on DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM drives. It is very confusing. Sometime we want

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... Hi folks, dmillerApologies if this should be on -scsi dmiller dmillerHas anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? dmiller dmillerI will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do dmillerit under unix. All I need

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux "driver" for the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments outnumber the code. I'd like to hear what your rationale for a separ

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
that. From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux "driver" for the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments outnumber the code. Well, that makes sens

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
to ken change that. ken ken From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as ken disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out ken http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux "driver" for ken the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
river and lun 1 could be handled by the da driver. How do you treat write protection? DVD-RAM type II media can be remove from the cartridge and be read as like as DVD-ROM media by some latest DVD-ROM drives, for example Panasonic's. But the striped DVD-RAM media is treat ad read only media by DV

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
writes, but it's a one-line fix to ken change that. ken ken From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as ken disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out ken http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux "driver" for ken the Pa

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. kenCan you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look kenat it, and see what sorts of things you have to do to make these drives kenwork? I am a beta tester of the new od driver. It almost works fine on some beta

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. Cool, I'm interested to hear how it works for you. If things don't work properly, we'll try to fix the bugs. kenCan you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look kenat it, and see

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread ycheng
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). The CAM DA driver was specifically designed to handle various sector sizes, and should work fine with non-512 byte sector sizes. If it

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
Hi folks, dmillerApologies if this should be on -scsi dmiller dmillerHas anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? dmiller dmillerI will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do dmillerit under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... Hi folks, dmillerApologies if this should be on -scsi dmiller dmillerHas anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? dmiller dmillerI will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do dmillerit under unix. All I need

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to change that.

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
that. From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux driver for the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments outnumber the code. Well, that makes sense from one

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
to ken change that. ken ken From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as ken disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out ken http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux driver for ken the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments outnumber the code

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
and lun 1 could be handled by the da driver. How do you treat write protection? DVD-RAM type II media can be remove from the cartridge and be read as like as DVD-ROM media by some latest DVD-ROM drives, for example Panasonic's. But the striped DVD-RAM media is treat ad read only media by DVD-RAM

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
writes, but it's a one-line fix to ken change that. ken ken From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as ken disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out ken http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux driver for ken the Panasonic LF

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. kenCan you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look kenat it, and see what sorts of things you have to do to make these drives kenwork? I am a beta tester of the new od driver. It almost works fine on some beta

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. Cool, I'm interested to hear how it works for you. If things don't work properly, we'll try to fix the bugs. kenCan you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look kenat it, and see

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. One of my cow-orkers (with whom I share an office) had

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that doesnt make a whisper on noise, It also

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Kenneth D. Merry (k...@plutotech.com) [990701 07:56]: No, its SCSI, im using a adaptec adapter. Keep in mind that i am unfamiliar with SCSI devices so I might allready be doing/have done something stupid ; ) It's not SCSI. The acd driver is the ATAPI CD driver. If you had a SCSI DVD

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic crypt0ge...@ecad.org writes: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. One of my cow-orkers (with whom I share an office

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that doesnt make a whisper on noise, It also

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic crypt0ge...@ecad.org writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread crypt0genic
I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache acd0: supported read types: acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread David Miller
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, crypt0genic wrote: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache acd0: supported read types: acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread crypt0genic
something stupid ; ) -crypt0genic I didn't realize it until we used it under 95/98, but the DVD-ram appears to act like an MO drive. IE, one can add, remove, change files at will. I may hack the od driver in the next couple of days to see if it will work at all. -- Reverse engineering

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread crypt0genic
I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache acd0: supported read types: acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread David Miller
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, crypt0genic wrote: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache acd0: supported read types: acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread crypt0genic
done something stupid ; ) -crypt0genic I didn't realize it until we used it under 95/98, but the DVD-ram appears to act like an MO drive. IE, one can add, remove, change files at will. I may hack the od driver in the next couple of days to see if it will work at all. -- Reverse

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
might allready be doing/have done something stupid ; ) -crypt0genic I didn't realize it until we used it under 95/98, but the DVD-ram appears to act like an MO drive. IE, one can add, remove, change files at will. I may hack the od driver in the next couple of days to see

DVD-ram

1999-06-29 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this should be on -scsi Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do it under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read/write the raw device. Currently the drive is recognized