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Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW documentation... 
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> 
> 
> > Nobody's begun any work, as such.  Again, I exhort you to look at 
> > Justin Gibbs' CAM framework; it is the future of mass storage 
> > interfaces in FreeBSD, and we should be looking towards it.
> 
> Already downloaded it, just havn't had the chance to look at any of it
> yet.  I take it that going the CAM route would be a completely different
> approach than writing an ATAPI sub-driver?

Yes.  Aside from the fact that the code would have a much longer life, 
adding the requisite ATAPI parts to the CAM framework would 
automatically buy you CD-RW, IDE tape and ATAPI disk support, modulo a 
little more work.

mike