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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
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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.