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- A first release of cdrecord has been released for AIX.
-
- AIX has a userland SCSI ioctl(2) but unfortunately no SCSI userland device
- node interface.
-
- This cdrecord distribution contains a hacked mkisofs-1.12.1 that runs on AIX
- and allows you to read a filesystem from a CD-R device with 2048 bytes
- if AIX does not support 2048 Bytes/sector (I don' know). This is done
- with the SCSI user level library.
-
- The current implementation status is alpha. It currently only handles
- /dev/rcd* devices. No real generic SCSI support.
- I got a donation from
- Michael Staats <michael@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE>
- & Fred Hucht <fred@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE>
-
- that I hope to integrate in the near future.
-
- To make a decent release, I need access to a recent AIX
- system. I currently only have non-root access to an old system without man
- pages, so I cannot test. To include error handling, I need to know some things
- abount what is happening on special error situations.
-
- To compile with the AIX cc use ./Gmake or smake from my makefiles
- distribution.
-
- To compile with the AIX cc use ./Gmake CCOM=gcc or smake CCOM=gcc
- from my makefiles distribution.
-
- NOTE: AIX seems to have a kernel bug in the mmap() part
- that may cause kernel panics.
-
- If you observe this kernel panic, try to add a line:
-
- COPTS += -DUSE_USGSHM
-
- to the file cdrecord/Makefile
-
- or compile the package using:
-
- make COPTX=-DUSE_USGSHM
-
- It seems that SVrx style shared memory does not have this kernel bug
-
- I would be happy to get test reports ...
-
- J÷rg
-