Nate Lawson wrote: > The problem with making burncd work for SCSI is that it doesn't use the > ATAPI interface, instead it implements our own ioctl interface. > Currently, the ioctls burncd uses that are missing from cd(4) are:
[ ... ] > Instead of cutting/pasting those from atapi-cd.c, I think it would be > better eventually to rewrite burncd using the ATAPI commands and libcam to > send them to the drive. That way we can have one CD driver instead of > duplicating all that code. IMO, atapi-cd.c need never have been written > but atapi-cam should have been done much earlier. We now have two nearly > identical drivers for supporting the exact same hardware. cd(4) works for > ATAPI and SCSI drives. acd(4) doesn't but has newer ATAPI commands that > have not yet been cut/pasted into cd(4). If you want to do 8 at a time, ATAPI isn't an option. Also, SCSI is the least common denominator; ATAPI is SCSI over IDE. Finally, the CAM/ATAPI SCSI code is already written and checked in, so there's already a common API (it's just that, as you point out, missing some ioctl() entry points. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
