DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 16 November 2003 04:26 pm, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and
> DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to
> configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it
> installed fine. Reading and writing CDs in all possible variations works
> fine with burncd. Yet many of my scripts are written for cdrecord, so
> I'd rather stick with that tool instead of learing yet another one.
>
> Two questions arise
>
> (a) How do I get such a unit to treat DVD-RAM just as slow, random
>     access optical media (much like an MO-Disk)?
>     I do not wish to do burncd or cdrecord on it, I wish to write to it
>     directly, if possible.
>     Alas, I could not put a new disk label on the blank (disklabel says
>     'unknown type: auto'), and newfs does not like it either. So I am
>     stuck.
>
> (b) Google and the online handbook (for 4.x though) tell me that I
>     need
>
>       device atapicam
>       device scbus
>       device pass
>
>     in my kernel to get to use the ATAPI unit like a SCSI unit
>     (e.g. with cdrecord and friends). However, on 5.1R I cannot find any
>     mention of an atapicam device, neither in GENERIC nor in the hints
>     nor NOTES. Now, what's a man to do?
>
>
> I checked the freebsd.org FAQs and archives, google and the news groups,
> but most stuff there is not really conclusive. In case this is a FAQ,
> after all, please just post a pointer.
>
> Any hints are much appreciated.
>

ruby# more /boot/loader.conf
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
userconfig_script_load="YES"
hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"

Enough of a hint :).

Kent

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