burncd and dvd-drives

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 00:47:28 PST 2005


On Friday 04 November 2005 00:18, you wrote:
> I was and am a great fan of the burncd utility.
> Very fast, simple and cli..
>
> But as almost any new computer is supplied with a dvd drive this nice
> program has become quit useless. It does not support those drives.
>
> My question is: will it ever do?
>
> I mean, cd-rom drives are losing terrain with each day passed.
> Or will I be "forced" to either buy an oldfashioned cdrom drive in my
> new machines? ; or recompile for atapicam ? ; or any other solution?
>
> Maybe I ask for to much. I'm no programmer myself. I have no idea
> whatsoever about the code changes needed in burncd to support at least
> the burning of CD's. (dvd's are different).

Why aren't you using cdrecord?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html

Pay attention to 16.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver


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