Getting around device atapicam

[Bill Ing]

Hello,

I'm looking for some advice.

With my current setup of FreeBSD 5.1, I cannot add device ATAPICAM to
the kernel without a fatal kernel trap 12 on boot up.

It's a problem that has to do with the binary driver provided by
Highpoint for their RocketRaid 1640.

My ultimate goal is to be able to burn DVD-R media, backing up parts of
my system to DVD-R using growisofs and the DVD Tools.

I'm using a Pioneer DVR-107 IDE ATAPI drive and I'm thinking of a
workaround where I put the drive into one of those USB2/firewire adapter
boxes that they sell for putting a HDD into and perhaps the USB or
Firewire interface would allow me to get around the need for using
ATAPICAM to do the IDE - SCSI emmulation.

But before I drop any money on this idea, I was wondering if anyone has
any thoughts on this.

Thanks in advance,

Bill Ing