From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 16:19:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12028 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12017 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA18578; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:18:43 -0700 (PDT) To: Martin Renters cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDwriter software In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:05:58 EDT." <199608211405.KAA02637@tdc.on.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:18:43 -0700 Message-ID: <18576.840669523@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a particular reason that we've gone with a 'worm' driver > interface for CD writers, as opposed to a 'cdwrite' program like Linux > has? I'm not sure what the rationale was for this, but it's possibly something we want to re-think since the worm driver has some definite shortcomings. It prevents you from using the same drive as an ordinary CDROM, and the changes required were extensive enough that we couldn't support it under 2.1.5 (and most likely whatever follows it). I think I'd be happy to see the worm device go away and be replaced by something in user mode. Jordan