Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 12:23:24 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk, farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrecord, freebsd and atapi cd-writers Message-ID: <3917142C.2F4000FE@3-cities.com> References: <200005081849.UAA17542@fokus.gmd.de>
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Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Mon May 8 19:07:15 2000 > > >schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote: > > >> FreeBSD does not support ATAPI drives. The drivers are not integrated into > >> the SCSI kernel subsystem.... > > >so the scripts under /usr/share/examples/atapi don't work? I've never > > I do't know. At least they don't mention cdrecord. I have a clean version 4.0 and I don't have any scripts in the atapi directory. > > >tried them (my CDR is on a FreeBSD 4 box) but always assumed they did > >work. If you just mean that cdrecord does not work with ATAPI drives on > >FreeBSD then may I ask that you do not spread misleading FUD, please? > ????????????? > > Cdrecord supports ATAPI drives if the OS supports them. I as the author > of cdrecord have no influence on OS design. > > ATAPI is SCSI commands sent over IDE transport. The natural way of implementing > this transport is to add a IDE specific hostadapter driver to the SCSI > subsystem. If the authors of an OS decide to implement ATAPI in a different > way, cdrecord will not work for ATAPI drives on this OS. I've never tried to use cdrecord, but I have burned a number of data cd's using burncd and an ATAPI HP8100i. Soren recently fixed atapi-cd.c so that it would write on HP CDROM's. Kent > > Jörg > > EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 > schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling > URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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