Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:10:03 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Message-ID: <200909281910.n8SJA3k5061584@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:42:10 +0300 On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:10:06 GMT, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: >> I think it's cdrtools that requires ATAPICAM to work. FreeBSD's >> built-in utility, burncd, can work out-of-box directly against >> acd0... > > Well, this "burncd" is a very limited tool. > > AFAIK, it does not support DVDs. It definitely does not support BluRay > and it does not include work arounds for the various firmware bugs in > the drives you find in the field. > > cdrecord gives you all you need for serious CD/DVD/BluRay media > support and you need cdrtools anyway in order to get mkisofs. > > Why should FreeBSD not by default include a technology that is > available since 7 years? The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too. We can probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel config file. It may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try kldload-ing "atapicam.ko" when it detects that "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not available as a sysctl knob.
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