Re: cdwrite, cdrecord, xcdroast
Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
> On Thu 19 Nov 1998, Brederlow wrote:
>
> > I tried to burn a CD yesterday on my Alpha and stumbled across some
> > problems:
> >
> > The generic devices aren't present and MAKEDEV doesn't know them.
>
> Are you sure? I have no trouble creating them with "/dev/MAKEDEV sg".
> Make sure to cd into /dev first.
Hmm, I tried sg2, which was the one I needed. Maybe MAKEDEV should be
smart enough to guess what one means. Also I was irritated that I
didn't have sda9, sda10,..., sdb9,..., sdc, sdd, ...
Whats the use of saving those on base? Any normal setup (i.e. not just
/ and /usr partitions) would need more than sda8 with the intel
partitioning scheme.
I have
sda1 milo dos
sda5 swap swap
sda6 root ext2
sda7 usr ext2
sda8 var ext2
sda9 tmp ext2
sda10 home ext2
sda11 data ext2
which isn't to far from a usual setup (think about people that have a
sda1, sda5, sda6 for windows). I will file a bug a against base and
makedev as soon as bug works. (It just doesn't want to start my editor).
> > cdwrite - not compiled for alpha and sources only in hamm
>
> cdwrite has not been maintained for a LONG time (by the upstream
> author), and cdrecord is regarded as the successor by all.
I used it on PC for a long time, so I tried that first. :) But,
hearing that I will probably keep away from it then.
> > cdrecord - stops with a shmmem error (invalid argument)
>
> Your kernel probably doesn't have a large enough shared memory segment
> available. I recall that for some reason, it is smaller on Alpha than
> on i386. cdrecord by default requests a 4MB segment. You can change this
> with the fs= parameter.
How can I enlarge the size in the kernel?
> > xcdroast - tells me to go into setup, screams about not working
> > buttons and has no "save setup" option. The main buttons (except show
> > devices, setup and exit) are disabled, so one can't burn.
>
> Hmm. I hardly ever use xcdroast, I do things by hand.
Me too :) But when everything else fails...
> > Does anybody know if cdwrite compiles under alpha? Has anybody burned
> > CD's on alpha yet?
>
> I think that cdwrite probably will not compile on alpha. The code was
> not known for its cleanliness...
> I was planning on trying a burn on alpha tonight, as it happens (some
> one wants a copy of my debian/alpha mirror). I'll let you know how I
> get on.
Did/Do you use "debian-cd"?
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
Reply to: