From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 17 12:20:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F4537B402 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g1HKKP332355 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:20:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:20:24 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Mather To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Support for DAO in burncd under -STABLE?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a long-time NetBSD/alpha user at home, but just got a new 1.4 GHz Athlon-based desktop PC at work (to replace my ailing DEC 3000/500) on which I just installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. It has an ATAPI CD-RW, but cdrecord does not appear to support ATAPI drives under FreeBSD, I discovered to my chagrin. (I use cdrecord at home on my DEC 3000/300 alpha.) Moreover, I was very surprised to discover that the ATAPI burning program under FreeBSD, burncd, does not support DAO burning under -STABLE. After a little more research, I found that DAO is supported in burncd under 5.0-CURRENT. However, after briefly installing FreeBSD from the 5.0-20020214-CURRENT snapshot, I reverted back to 4.5-RELEASE because my I/O performance under -CURRENT appeared to be about 1/3rd of that under 4.5-RELEASE (measured by install and dump progress). (Did I pick a bad snapshot to install??) So, I guess my question is this: is it likely that the DAO support in burncd under -CURRENT will be merged into -STABLE any time soon? Alternatively, is it likely that cdrecord will support ATAPI drives under -STABLE? (I'd much rather use cdrecord, as it's what I use at home.) It's very inconvenient not to be able to burn DAO under FreeBSD. The only other burning program that springs to mind that is bundled with an OS that doesn't support DAO is Windows Media Player. Are we trying to win over Windows users here? ;-) Cheers, Paul. e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message