General Information
Many people using or wanting to use FreeBSD are not clued on to the fact that, by default, CD burning does not work on either 4.x or 5.x. This tutorial was designed to help users get their IDE CD Writing devices working under FreeBSD 5.
Requirements
- IDE CD Writer
- FreeBSD 5.x
- Root Access
- Sources Installed
First off, please make sure your bios is detecting your CD-RW. This is very important to know. If it shows up, you can proceed. Under FreeBSD, CD Writers use SCSI interface modules much like the SCSI emulation in Linux was back before 2.6. Generally the SCSI emulated method has better failsafe ability, so this is not a bad thing for FreeBSD to still be using. The drawback is the standard kernel is missing a module which is necessary to use the device. The generic configs also lack this line.
Now that you are booted into your BSD box, please login as root.
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC HOSTNAME # nano -w HOSTNAME
Under SCSI peripherals, make sure the following matches:
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device ch # SCSI media changers device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) device atapicam
Save the file and exit.
# nano -w /etc/devfs.conf
Add the following:
perm acd0 0666 link acd0 cdrom perm pass0 0666 perm cd0 0666 perm xpt0 0666
# nano -w /etc/rc.conf
Add the following to the bottom:
devd_enable="YES"
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrdao # make # make install # make clean # cd /usr/local/bin # chmod u+s cdrdao
I recommend using k3b for burning, it’s easy to use and efficient.
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b # make # make install # make clean
You’re done. Reboot and start k3b, it should ask you how fast your writer is and you should be able to burn cd’s.