Re: [linux-minidisc] Building himdformat against libscg on MacOSX

[Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
 > > You can format you himd walkman as followed:
> > 
> > 1) use cdrecord -scanbus   to find your walkman
> >     The entry should look like this:
> >         scsibus 6:
> >                       6,0,0  600> 'SONY    ' 'Hi-MD WALKMAN'   ' '1000' Removable Disk    

Ok, that doesn't work both on MacOS:

minimac2:~ zedv$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (i386-apple-macosx10.3.0)
Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-R   UJ-846  ' 'FM3J' Removable
	CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) *
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *
minimac2:~ zedv$ 

and Linux:

glaubitz@z6:~> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus1000:
        1000,0,0 100000) '_NEC    ' 'DVD_RW ND-3540A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM
        1000,1,0 100001) *
        1000,2,0 100002) *
        1000,3,0 100003) *
        1000,4,0 100004) *
        1000,5,0 100005) *
        1000,6,0 100006) *
        1000,7,0 100007) *
glaubitz@z6:~> lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 054c:0287 Sony Corp. Hi-MD WALKMAN
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
glaubitz@z6:~> 

Seems like cdrecord is not scanning all busses available. I remember
that I once called cdrecord on my Linux computer (z6) and it listed
even the SATA harddrives attached, so I have to be missing
something. Will do further tests.


Adrian