From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 23:12:30 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 23:12:28 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F117637B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id dxmsaaaa for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:20:28 +1100 Message-ID: <3A52D0F7.2D89F1E7@quake.com.au> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:12:55 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Wheeler Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/ad* versus /dev/wd* References: <200101030700.f0370ge11931@wheelerz.mweb.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler wrote: > > 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? Yes ad is the new driver and has been used since 4.0 or maybe earlier... IDE CD-R's work fine... Have you tried writing a cd? man burncd is your answer I think... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message