atapicam(4) as KLD?

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В пт, 15/10/2004 в 20:06 +1000, Peter Jeremy пишет:
> On Thu, 2004-Oct-14 16:29:17 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >Is burncd able to burn a DVD [+/-{R,W,RAM}] to an IDE device without using 
> >ATAPICAM?
> 
> dd(1) does a reasonable job of burning pre-formatted DVD+RWs.  I would
> expect it to handle DVD-RAM but I'm not sure about write-once media.
> 
> >  I think it is not unreasonable to expect the GENERIC kernel to 
> >be able to burn DVDs, as that can make for a reasonable backup mechanism.
> 
> I tend to agree.  For some time, FreeBSD has been heading away from
> requiring users to re-compile the kernel.  If ATAPICAM can't be
> (readily) turned into a module, it would seem reasonable to have it
> built into GENERIC.
> 
> Whilst we're discussing ATAPICAM, even after I make /dev/cd0[ac] mode
> 666, I can't write to it as a non-root user.  Does anyone know the
> rationale for this and which particular EPERM is the culprit?  I've
> had a quick look at the source but can't see nothing leapt out.

I guess you should make 0666 (or whatever) perms for /dev/passX to write
something by cdrecord/cdrdao

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Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru