Re: [linux-minidisc] using libusal for scsi access

[manner.moe@gmx.de]

>Betreff : Re: [linux-minidisc] using libusal for scsi access
>Gesendet: 06.05.2010 13:33:45
>An : "manner.moe@gmx.de"
>Von: "Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>"

>----- Originale Nachricht -----
>On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:41:55PM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> > > Here is a thread of the cdrkit mailing list which might help you compiling 
>> > > cdrkit/libusal on mac.
>> > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debburn-devel/2008-October/000600.html
>> > 
>> > Hmm, unfortunately I still get a lot of erros during compilation. I
>> > will try getting in contact with the patch author, maybe he knows
>> > what's wrong. I presume that his patch was written for an earlier
>> > version of cdrkit. I will report back once I got a reply from him.
>> 
>> Ok, finally managed to get it compile after patching the cdrkit
>> sources in several places. I'm attaching the appropriate
>> patch. However, there is still something wrong, wodim cannot scan the
>> SCSI bus while it works with the version of cdrecord installed from
>> Macports:
>> 
>> minimac2:~ zedv$ wodim -scanbus
>> wodim: No such file or directory. 
>> Cannot open SCSI driver!
>> For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
>> For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
>> For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
>> the wodim documentation.

>Ok, this seems to be an upstream bug :/. Please check this bug report
>on Debian (which are the maintainers of the fork):

><http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495184>

>wodim shows the exact same problem on Debian (in certain ?)
>configurations. So, what are we gonna do now? I will check whether I
>can get himdformat.c working on MacOS. If I cannot, we should probably
>drop cdrkit/libusal in favor of cdrtools/libscg. The first one seems
>to have alot of bugs at the moment :(.

>Adrian

Hmm, O.K. wodim -scanbus works fine on windows. If we will use
libscg/cdrecord instead we have to fix win32 version of libscg to
work with driveletteters the way as libusal does.
I´ll test libscg on windows soon (build process is a bit complicated using
smake with MinGW).

Thomas