ATAPICAM and CDRW drives

[Lowell Gilbert]

Vulpes Velox <kitlists at hotpop.com> writes:

> On 16 May 2003 13:33:53 -0400
> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:
> 
> > Vulpes Velox <kitlists at hotpop.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I was looking at the list of cdrw drives supported by burncd and I
> > > noticed it is a short list and after a bit of searching, none of
> > > them appear to be easy to find.
> > 
> > No; virtually all ATAPI CD-RW drives are supported by burncd.  That's
> > pretty much everything that isn't SCSI.
> 
> I came across these pages when checking into it recently...
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
> http://www.freebsd.dk/ata/
> 
> Is that wrong/outdated?

Sort of.  These days, most "ATAPI" drives come fairly close to meeting
the ATAPI spec, which certainly didn't used to be the case.

I think you could certainly submit a PR with a diff on the doc,
although you should probably ask the ATA guys about it first.