Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 15:23:29 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Subject: Re: burncd and dvd-drives Message-ID: <200511051523.30459.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--nextPart9752566.NY1sdnxIqD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > But as almost any new computer is supplied with a dvd drive this nice > program has become quit useless. It does not support those drives. > > My question is: will it ever do? It does support DVD's, but in my experience it is a bit buggy so I normally= =20 use cdrecord/growisofs/.. > I mean, cd-rom drives are losing terrain with each day passed. > Or will I be "forced" to either buy an oldfashioned cdrom drive in my > new machines? ; or recompile for atapicam ? ; or any other solution? These days you don't need to recompile to get atapicam, it is a loadable=20 module. It would be nice if the Schily SCSI library could support multiple transpor= t=20 types at once then you could have a version that could speak to both ATA=20 *and* CAM at the same time. (I believe sos wrote patches for Schily lib to= =20 talk to the ATA subsystem but then you can't use it to talk to SCSI devices) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart9752566.NY1sdnxIqD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDbDrK5ZPcIHs/zowRAjyZAKCe2I/yfuyacCqUy7zbxcqrS484AgCfSzM0 jFWW+HThnVggDRDIqIME02Y= =m1yO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9752566.NY1sdnxIqD--
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