kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs

[Joerg Schilling]

The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: d at delphij.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:53:46 +0200

 Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
 
 > Hi,
 >
 > I think it's cdrtools that requires ATAPICAM to work.  FreeBSD's
 > built-in utility, burncd, can work out-of-box directly against acd0...
 
 Well, this "burncd" is a very limited tool.
 
 AFAIK, it does not support DVDs. It definitely does not support BluRay
 and it does not include work arounds for the various firmware bugs in the
 drives you find in the field.
 
 cdrecord gives you all you need for serious CD/DVD/BluRay media support
 and you need cdrtools anyway in order to get mkisofs.
 
 Why should FreeBSD not by default include a technology that is available 
 since 7 years?
 
 Jörg
 
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