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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <199910091057.MAA01015@oranje.my.domain> from Marc van Woerkom at "Oct 9, 1999 12:57:27 pm"
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It seems Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> Do I have to stick to two different programming models or is it possible
> to have low level access to those drives (e.g. play a CD DA audio track)
> via a common interface like CAM?

Two interfaces I think, although the readaudio ioctl could easily be done
under CAM too, giving us identical functionality.
 
> Another problem is the price gap. The consumer markets offer cheap
> drives for IDE or even USB, but less and less SCSI.
> I have need for a CD RW and a DVD drive in the next months, but still
> hesitate what interface to buy. 
> If we want to make our system more attractive for normal people I am
> afraid we have to support the cheapo stuff too..

I'm working (sometimes hard :) ) to make the new ata driver work as best
the ATA/ATAPI devices will let us do it. It does support the above
mentioned devices, but be aware that we dont have an implementation of
the UDF filesystem that is use on most DVD's.

-Søren



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