Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:57:40 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: michael_class@hp.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: CAM cutover in two weeks. Message-ID: <199804151057.MAA03641@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199804150657.AAA13210@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Apr 15, 98 00:57:55 am"
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In reply to Kenneth D. Merry who wrote:
> >
> > Just on question: What will be our preferred way to burn CD's? Up to now
> > I am pretty happy with my HP4020i and the wrom-driver (thank you Joerg
> > for making it even possible to use the drive as a CD-ROM reader) Now I
> > see that the worm driver is not currently supported. Is it only due to
> > the lack of an owner, or do we need that thing any more? Why?
>
> It isn't supported due to (my) lack of time. I have a WORM drive,
> though (Plextor 4/12 Max), and I'm planning to write a WORM driver for CAM.
>
> It's likely that we can get cdrecord running with the CAM
> passthrough driver fairly quickly, though. This would give you the
> ability to burn CD's from userland. As for mounting WORM drives as CDROM
> drives, I can probably come up with the necessary code in the current CAM
> CDROM driver to make that happen. (basically, I'd need to make quirk
> entries for worm drives that don't respond to CD commands...if there are
> any such devices)
Lets stick to the passthrough driver and use cdrecord or semilar. I'm
currently working on getting an ATAPI CDRW drive working, and have
more or less given up on using the worm-type interface, it just
doesn't fit for modern (MMC compliant) drives.
And yes I plan to get ATAPI support in under the SCSI system whatever
it might be.
I think it might be a bit premature, we will alienate many (if not most)
of the -current hackers by removing 80% of our SCSI drivers :(
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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