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I am running cdrecord 1.8 and the scg/fbk drivers on solaris2.6 on a Sun
Ultra5.

The cd-writing using cdrecord works allright but using the internal CDrom or
the cdwriter is not possible - why.
I am running the Ultra5 on 32  bit (boot kernel/unix), acc. to the
instructions for the scg and fbk provided, developt and revised by J?rg
Schilling.

I am running the CD-rom writer (yamaha 4416S) on an internal
scsicard(symbios logic).

Is it possible to run the scg amd fbk drivers on the ordinary 64 bit kernel
or to operate them under a 32 bit kernel.
How do I operate both the Internal CDROM and the external SCSI
CD-rom/cdwriter.
using the ordinary kernel.

Any tips would be appreciated, Frank

I did not yet have the time to add 64 bit support. ..... but now I hope to
have soon more time to do it. For a while I had time but the beta 64 bit
C-compiler timed out and Sun did not deliver the official one fast enough ;-)

The next 3 weeks, it is unlikely that I'll do it as my DVD-R sample drive
just arrived and I can only have it two times for a very limited time. There
are only few samples on the world at the moment :-(

Quote:>How do I operate both the Internal CDROM and the external SCSI
>CD-rom/cdwriter.
>using the ordinary kernel.

The internal CDROM is ATAPI. Older Solaris versions had a very obscure way
of integrating ATAPI and it would have been a big challenge to add ATAPI
support to the scg driver.

Solaris 7 now seems to be a bit better, there is a atapi module which seems
to do the right thing. But at the moment I did not yet figured out
how to use the features of this module. It seems that the directory structure
on the Solaris source CD's becomes more and more confusing.

Give me time or give me a Volonteer and you will see ATAPI support on Solaris.

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Why don't you add USCSI as a compile time option for those that wishes
to use cdrecord without scg?

Granted that it will only work with drives that presents themselves as
CDROM or disks, I believe this covers most interesting drives anyway.

I have just today moved my USCSI  patch from 1.6.1 to 1.8, but haven't had
the time to fully test it out yet.

This will make the whole 32/64-bit issue moot.

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Cdrecord compiles on 20 OS platforms. Support for SunOS 4.x as well as support for
SunOS 5.x is a base feature. The problem is that USCSI on SunOS 4.x and early versions
of SunOS 5.x is unusable. I would need some autoconf code to check whether
USCSI is usable or only a joke.

SCG uses an interface that is binary identical from SunOS 3.0 to SunOS 5.7
Using this scg interface makes portability issues easy to forget if you compare
to USCSI.

If this prtability problems have been solved, I will add USCSI support to my
SCSI transport library.

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Quote:> Cdrecord compiles on 20 OS platforms. Support for SunOS 4.x as well as
support for
> SunOS 5.x is a base feature. The problem is that USCSI on SunOS 4.x and
early versions
> of SunOS 5.x is unusable. I would need some autoconf code to check whether
> USCSI is usable or only a joke.

cdrecord is Wonderful....

Quote:

> SCG uses an interface that is binary identical from SunOS 3.0 to SunOS 5.7
> Using this scg interface makes portability issues easy to forget if you
compare
> to USCSI.

WHY havent you released Source for the Solaris SCG driver???