Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:20:24 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Support for DAO in burncd under -STABLE?? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.41.0202171505150.30544-100000@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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I'm a long-time NetBSD/alpha user at home, but just got a new 1.4 GHz
Athlon-based desktop PC at work (to replace my ailing DEC 3000/500) on
which I just installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. It has an ATAPI CD-RW, but
cdrecord does not appear to support ATAPI drives under FreeBSD, I
discovered to my chagrin. (I use cdrecord at home on my DEC 3000/300
alpha.) Moreover, I was very surprised to discover that the ATAPI
burning program under FreeBSD, burncd, does not support DAO burning
under -STABLE.
After a little more research, I found that DAO is supported in burncd
under 5.0-CURRENT. However, after briefly installing FreeBSD from the
5.0-20020214-CURRENT snapshot, I reverted back to 4.5-RELEASE because my
I/O performance under -CURRENT appeared to be about 1/3rd of that under
4.5-RELEASE (measured by install and dump progress). (Did I pick a bad
snapshot to install??)
So, I guess my question is this: is it likely that the DAO support in
burncd under -CURRENT will be merged into -STABLE any time soon?
Alternatively, is it likely that cdrecord will support ATAPI drives
under -STABLE? (I'd much rather use cdrecord, as it's what I use at
home.) It's very inconvenient not to be able to burn DAO under FreeBSD.
The only other burning program that springs to mind that is bundled with
an OS that doesn't support DAO is Windows Media Player. Are we trying
to win over Windows users here? ;-)
Cheers,
Paul.
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
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