My original query- can you use a CD-ROM drive other than
a Sony for Suns...Specifically a Toshiba 3301B from a
NeXT... generated several replies, from YES to NO-WAY...
The answer is YES for data, probably yes for audio.
For other drives than Toshiba??? Lets hear your results
when you try it!!
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So what about the CD-ROM stuff??
The problem seems to be in the sector size read from the
scsi interface--- Sun expects 512 bytes, the default format
of the CD1 spec is (mode 1, with ECC) 2048 bytes per 'block'.
Is there an ftp site for the (red/blue/green?? rainbow) books
which have the CD specs and mode descriptions???
This is on a Sun LPC, SunOS 4.1.1b--
Patches which I tried in the kernel were not effective.
I posted. I read the mail. I tried it. IT WORKED!!
And the GOOD STUFF, Thanks and a tip 'o the hat to Ralph,
who wrote:
From: rkling@austin.intel.com (Ralph Kling)
YES, it is possible! I have managed to connect one to a SS-2.
However, there are a few differences between the SUN (=SONY) drive
and the Toshiba drive. In particular, the SUN drive seems to use
a default transfer block size of 512 bytes versus 2048 for the
Toshiba. I wrote a little program that uses SUNs user-scsi-driver
to correct this. You have to run that before trying to mount the
drive! The "unrecognized vendor" message can be neglected.
If you want to use the CD-audio capabilities you'll have to write
your own driver (also via SUNs user-scsi-driver) since those commands
are totally different from the SUN drive. Call Toshiba of America
(sorry, I lost the number) and order the CD rom drive spec from them
(will cost you $15).
One more thing: The scsi-id for the CD rom needs to be 6.
Good luck!!!
Ralph
Here is the program to set the transfer length to 512 bytes:
-----------
# include <sys/types.h>
# include <sys/buf.h>
# include <sun/dkio.h>
# include <scsi/targets/srdef.h>
# include <scsi/impl/uscsi.h>
# include <strings.h>
# include <stdio.h>
char cdrom[] = "/dev/rsr0";
extern char * cdrom_status();
/* group 0 commands */
#define TEST 0x00
#define REZERO 0x01
#define SENSEREQ 0x03
#define READ 0x08
#define SEEK 0x0b
#define NOP 0x0d
#define INQ 0x12
#define MODESEL 0x15
#define RESERVE 0x16
#define RELEASE 0x17
#define MODESENSE 0x1a
#define STARTSTOP 0x1b
#define DIAGRCV 0x1c
#define DIAGSND 0x1d
#define MEDIUMLOCK 0x1e
/* group 1 commands */
#define READCAP 0x25
#define READEXT 0x28
#define SEEKEXT 0x2b
/* group 6 commands */
#define AUDIOTRACK 0xc0
#define AUDIOPLAY 0xc1
#define AUDIOSTILL 0xc2
#define AUDIOSTOP 0xc3
#define EJECT 0xc4
#define CLOSE 0xc5
#define AUDIOSUB 0xc6
#define AUDIODISK 0xc7
#define ROMMODE 0xc8
/***/
#define CMDLEN(cmd) ((cmd >= 0x20) ? 10 : 6)
/***/
main() {
int fd;
int i;
struct uscsi_cmd ucmd;
char * s_command;
char * s_buffer;
if ((fd = open(cdrom, 0)) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "open: ");
perror(cdrom);
exit(1);
}
s_command = (char *) malloc(10);
if (s_command == NULL) {
printf("malloc error (command)\n");
exit(-1);
}
bzero(s_command, 10);
s_buffer = (char *) malloc(256);
if (s_buffer == NULL) {
printf("malloc error (buffer)\n");
exit(-1);
}
bzero(s_buffer, 256);
s_command[0] = MODESEL;
s_command[1] = 0x10;
s_command[4] = 12;
s_buffer[3] = 0x08;
s_buffer[10] = 0x02;
ucmd.uscsi_cdb = s_command;
ucmd.uscsi_cdblen = 6;
ucmd.uscsi_bufaddr = s_buffer;
ucmd.uscsi_buflen = 4096;
ucmd.uscsi_flags = USCSI_WRITE;
i = ioctl(fd, USCSICMD, ucmd);
close(fd);
exit(i);
}
**************** end of Ralph's goodie ****************
I can hear those odd-ball Cd-rom drives being hooked onto
scsi busses already!
Bob Hayes <bob@cs.wwu.edu>
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