Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:58:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>, eadler@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0 Message-ID: <4E812DB7.3000302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVeAPt0_=jNXaHcnB8QCtYuvi5z69MDMFEgyD0HBQT0Mcw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201109262324.p8QNO0NN070853@freefall.freebsd.org> <4E811FF7.7010607@a1poweruser.com> <4E8126D3.5020407@FreeBSD.org> <CAG=rPVeAPt0_=jNXaHcnB8QCtYuvi5z69MDMFEgyD0HBQT0Mcw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/26/2011 18:43, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> burncd has been part of the system utilities included in the basic >>> release since release 4.0 and cdrecord is a port. The professional >>> solution is to remove burncd from the 9.0 system release and add the >>> cdrecord command to the basic release as the replacement for burncd. >>> Then add release notes entry of the change. >> >> I think you misunderstand the situation. So here are a few hopefully >> helpful facts: >> >> 1. The fact that something is in the base, or in the ports, has >> absolutely no bearing on whether one piece of software is fundamentally >> more useful or valuable than another. > > > Hi, > > I have used burncd on many releases of FreeBSD, on many machines > without problem. I can see the fact that burncd suddenly failing to > work on ATAPI hardware could annoy and confused end-users. It doesn't fail to work on ATAPI hardware. It fails to work on cd0 which is a SCSI device. The fact that it's emulated doesn't matter. > Can we modify burncd to somehow detect if ATAPI-CAM is enabled, and print out > a more useful error message? Sure, as soon as someone volunteers to create that patch. No one is *trying* to annoy users, but things change around here because people are interested in changing them. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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