From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 03:09:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D748106564A for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD008FC0A for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10479 invoked by uid 399); 26 Apr 2010 03:09:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 26 Apr 2010 03:09:32 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BD503D9.6050307@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:09:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <4BD4F35C.4020608@FreeBSD.org> <60DC882E-266C-46CA-9AB6-71B487418C15@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <60DC882E-266C-46CA-9AB6-71B487418C15@samsco.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Best , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:35 -0000 On 04/25/10 19:03, Scott Long wrote: > On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 04/25/10 03:23, Alexander Best wrote: >>> another option would be to have a ata(4)->cam(4)->ata(4) >>> emulation. >> >> What would be the value of doing all of that work as opposed to >> just using one of the available options that already work with cam >> such as cdrecord? >> > > I think that there's a valid argument for having a cd recording > program in the base system. I'm not sure I agree with you, but that's orthogonal to the OP. :) > cdrecord is an excellent program, but I > don't believe that it's a good candidate to try to import into > FreeBSD. Agreed on that ... and I'm not opposed to your previous idea of rewriting burncd to work with the new world order. I'm just not sure that the multi-layer idea to make the old burncd work is a good idea. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/