atapicam and cdrecord

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 13:40:29 -0700, bruno schwander wrote:
> 
>  I am trying to get cdrecord to work with my IDE cd writer.
>  
> I added the scsi support as well as atapicam in my kernel (FreeBSD
> 4.8-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 22 12:09:08 PDT 2003)
>  
>  relevant dmesg
>  ---------------------------
>  acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1002> at ata0-master PIO3
>  acd1: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-40125S> at ata3-master PIO4
>  Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
>  cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>  cd0: <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1002 0577> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
>  cd0: 11.000MB/s transfers
>  cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
>  cd1 at ata3 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>  cd1: <LITE-ON LTR-40125S ZS0J> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
>  cd1: 16.000MB/s transfers
>  cd1: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records]
>  ---------------------------
>  
>  so it looks good
>  
>  camcontrol devlist gives
>  -------------------------------
>  <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1002 0577>    at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0)
>  <LITE-ON LTR-40125S ZS0J>          at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd1)
>  -------------------------------
>  
>  so I gather that I should use cdrecord --device 3,0,0   etc. (as I found
>  in some other maillist)
>  
>  however, cdrecord complains with
>  ------------------------------
>  ERROR: Cannot open SCSI device '3,0,0': 
>  ERROR: Please use option '--device bus,id,lun', e.g. --device 0,6,0
>  ERROR: Cannot setup device 3,0,0.
>  ------------------------------
>  
>  and cdrecord scanbus does not list any available drives.
>  
>  What gives ? anything missing ? It seems everything is there...

First, make sure camcontrol can talk directly to the drive:

camcontrol tur cd1 -v

If you can't talk to the drive, make sure you have device nodes for at
least pass0 and pass1:

cd /dev
sh ./MAKEDEV pass4

(That will create pass0-pass3)

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken at kdm.org