Support of MO-Drives?

[Markus Dolze]

Hello,

On http://www.freebsdforums.org/ there was a discussion about hardware 
for small backup use. I thought of MO-drives (magneto-optical). This 
week I got access to a new Fujitsu Dynamo 1.3 GB drive with ATAPI interface.

After attaching it the drive didn't get a device assigned on startup. 
The drive is visible when I use "atacontrol list". I went through the 
example kernel config files and found the atapicam device. After 
building and installing a new kernel with it, the drive was detected and 
assigned an "ad*" device.

Ejecting the media and starting the drive using "camcontrol" worked as 
well as reading and writing.

Is this the intended way to use these kind of devices?

Regards
Markus Dolze