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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:42:48 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c
Message-ID:  <20021004194248.GA23759@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200210041333.g94DXVJb051666@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200210041333.g94DXVJb051666@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:33:31AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>   Log:
>   Unhook the SCSI CD driver from the disk "mini-layer" and/or GEOM.
>   SCSI disks are too square pegs for the round holes in both of these.
>   
>   And since atapi-cd has clearly shown that there are better acccess
>   models for CD media than trying to pretend to be a classical disk,
>   we stop the masquerade rather than patch up the costume.

It would be nice if atapi-cd would DTRT as the SCSI-CD does:

    # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=blah
    dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
    0+0 records in
    0+0 records out
    0 bytes transferred in 0.000081 secs (0 bytes/sec)

SCSI works, where I have to explicitly state "bs=2048" for atapi-cd.

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