Subject: Re: supported hardware?
To: David C. Myers <myers@iname.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/12/2000 16:14:36
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, David C. Myers wrote:
> 'cdrecord' is what you want. Great program, and coincidentally written
> by Joerg Schilling, the same fellow who wrote the Solaris SCSI driver
> you mention below in question #4. You won't need anything special;
> cdrecord will recognize CD devices that are writeable.
>
> I take that back. You'll need 'mkisofs'. That's the premastering
> program that creates an image file in ISO 9660 format.
>
> Schilling's home page is:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
>
You'll find them, along with many other useful tools in NetBSD's
pkgsrc sysutils category:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/sysutils/README.html
>
> > 4. Attach a film scanner (probably a Nikon) using SANE. I have used
> > a borrowed Nikon scanner on an ELC running Solaris and there were a
> > special SCSI-direct device needed. Is SCSI direct supported by
> > NetBSD/sparc?
>
> Supposedly, SANE should work with either the unknown SCSI device 'uk0'
> or the SCSI scanner device 'ss0', so put those in your kernel config
> file. You won't need anything like the 'scg' driver under Solaris.
>
> Having said that, I was unable to get my scanner to work correctly under
> SANE, but I only fiddled with it for an hour or so. If you are
> successful, you might post a message.
>
You should probably use the 'uk0' rather than the 'ss0' device
(comment out 'ss0' in your kernel config).
> Marginally related question: Is anybody looking at porting the SCSI CAM
> framework developed by the FreeBSD folks?
Jason has done some work on the NetBSD scsi/atapi system, and
I believe the intention is to continue with our own framework.
David/absolute