Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:10:36 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: cokane@one.net (Coleman Kane), zgabor@CoDe.hu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE CD-writer Message-ID: <200001200810.JAA49113@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20000119154338.A90000@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Jan 19, 2000 03:43:38 pm"
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It seems Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:32:13 -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > > That is a deficiency in cdrecord as I understand, anyway. It was originally > > written for SCSI, and built around that fact. > > It's not a deficiency in cdrecord, but rather because our ATA/ATAPI > subsystem doesn't run under the SCSI subsystem, and it doesn't have any > sort of passthrough mechanism. So there's no way to send commands directly > to ATAPI CD drives. I've volountered to put in an ATAPI cmd passthrough ioctl for a long time, but nobody has signed up to do the stuff in cdrecord, although it should be fairly easy. However its not needed, and in 4.0 there is even better support for burning CD-R/RW (man burncd).. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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