Sony CDRW drive on 5.1

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Oct 18 05:50:21 PDT 2003


Ekrem <ekrem at ozemail.com.au> writes:

> On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:56, Anthony Carmody wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > anyone got any tips on enabling & testing a CDRW drive on 5.1?
> > 
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> If it's IDE, then you need to add;
> 
> device          atapicam
> 
> into the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
> Then use (after a reboot) 'camcontrol devlist' to see if the CDRW drive
> is recognised.

The word "need" isn't really accurate there; burncd(8) works fine with
an ATAPI drive on a stock kernel.


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