From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 23: 0:33 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 23:00:32 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (jhb-imta.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E7A37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from wheelerz.mweb.co.za ([196.30.184.137]) by jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G6K00B2URD2ZJ@jhb-imta.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:58:16 +0200 (GMT-2) Received: (from gramroam@localhost) by wheelerz.mweb.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0370ge11931 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:00:42 +0200 (SAST envelope-from gramster@mweb.co.za) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 08:59:06 +0200 (SAST) From: Graham Wheeler Subject: /dev/ad* versus /dev/wd* To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <200101030700.f0370ge11931@wheelerz.mweb.co.za> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all The other day I wanted to try get my IDE CD-R drive working on FreeBSD 4-S. I noticed that the old /dev/wd* drivers have been replaced it seems with a new ATAPI driver, /dev/ad*, which doesn't seem to support IDE CD-Rs; however, the wd driver is still present but disabled. Questions: * what are the pros and cons of these two drivers? * is it possible to use the new ad driver with an IDE CD-R drive to record? Sorry if this is old hat. Please reply directly as well as CC the list, as I am sitting at home on the far end of a slow dialup link today. regards (and happy new year, everyone!) Graham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message