[1909] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Ricoh MP6200S
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Scott)
Tue May 27 13:19:54 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Scott <bscott@leonardo.sr.unh.edu>
Reply-To: ben.scott@unh.edu
To: Michael Riedl <riedl@monkey.e-technik.uni-ulm.de>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3389C9F3.7E754DC1@it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de>
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Michael Riedl wrote:
> As I am a linux user, I wonder if this recorder is supported by linux or
> if you know or think it will be.
As far as cdwrite goes, the "supported" hardware list is at:
http://terminus.storm.net/~hpa/cdwrite_comp.html
However, stuff not on that list might work, and stuff on that list can *not*
work. Bottom line: Make real sure you can return what you buy for a full
refund if it turns out not to work. :)
> When _READING_ from CD-ROM, CD-R or CD-RW with the MP6200S, can it be
> contolled by the SCSI host adapter as any other SCSI CR-ROM drive or are
> ther differences?
All the SCSI CD writers I've delt with work fine as a regular CD-ROM reader,
using the Linux "sr" driver. But YMMV.
> What I mean is: Only _WRITING_ needs special drivers?
In theory, yes. Under Linux, CD writing is done via the generic SCSI
interface (sg), and so controlling the writer is the job of the user program
(cdwrite). So if your writer isn't supported by your writer software, you
can't write anything, but you should be able to read from it.
> If only writing needs special drivers, I would buy this drive and switch
> to DOS to write the images prepared under linux, beacause creating the
> image file is hardware independent, as I think.
Hardware independent, yes. Software, no. If you dd a CD-ROM to a hard disk
file, or master an ISO image with "mkisofs", then what you have is a raw image
of the CD-ROM, which is what cdwrite expects and uses. I am told that Gear
supports such images, but not all DOS/Windows software does.
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Ben Scott <ben.scott@unh.edu>
Technical support staff
Space Science Center
University of New Hampshire
