From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 19:49:29 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 19:49:26 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C998937B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010106034926.SHTD15927.femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:49:26 -0800 Sender: rob@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A57E72A.7A297779@home.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:48:59 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Alex Zepeda , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: atapi CD-RW and cdrecord? References: <14933.54786.263374.313873@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you absolutely have to do this, OpenBSD provides it. (send em to Gimballs :) That was one thing I really liked about OpenBSD on my laptop. But I decided that 3000 more ports was a better deal so I switched back to FreeBSD. Rob. Mike Meyer wrote: > > Alex Zepeda types: > > I noticed that the cdrecord port (well the pkg-descr file) claims to > > support ATAPI devices. However, I can't seem to get this to work. Does > > this work under FreeBSD at all? > > No. > > > Sure, burncd works. But I'm cdrecord seems more flexible... and if the > > FreeBSD port does *NOT* support ATAPI CD-RWs, why does it state otherwise? > > At a guess, because the person who did the port is hoping that FreeBSD > will add the plumbing cdrecord needs to talk to ATAPI CD-RWs. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message