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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:09:13 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
Message-ID:  <4BD503D9.6050307@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <60DC882E-266C-46CA-9AB6-71B487418C15@samsco.org>
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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

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