bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0
Gary Palmer
gpalmer at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 26 02:32:58 UTC 2011
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:10:08AM +0000, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/160979; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
> To: Joe Barbish <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com>
> Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0
> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:00:43 +0300
>
> On 2011-09-24, Joe Barbish wrote:
> > It seems that in 9.0 the cd/dvd/drive is now given a dev name of cd0
> > where in all previous releases it was acd0.
> > Tried to use the system burncd command in 9.0 and got this error msg
> >
> > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCGETBLOCKSIZE): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > Tested using "burncd -f acd0" and "burncd -f cd0".
> > In both cases got the same error message.
> >
> > Looks to me like the burncd command needs to be fixed
> > to work in 9.0.
>
> burncd(8) supports only acd(4) driver. In 9.0 the default is the new
> CAM-based ATA stack which uses cd(4) (UPDATING entry 20110424).
>
> It's unlikely that a support for cd(4) will be added to burncd(8).
>
> I think this should be mentioned in release notes.
Can burncd(8) be easily modified to test for a CAM based ATA stack and
output a helpful error message pointing the user at cdrecord? It would
help avoid more people running into this problem.
Thanks,
Gary
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