IDE cd-burner, Can it be done???

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:37:23 -0800 (PST)
whizkid at ValueDJ.com wrote:

> I have a IDE cd-burner in my FreeBSD 5.1 box.  I have installed
> cdrecord from the ports but this looks like it needs a SCSI drive. 
> Is there a CMD line cd-record package that works with a IDE
> cd-burner.  Here is a line from dmesg:
> 
> acd0: CD-RW <MEMOREX CD-RW4224> at ata1-master PIO4
> 
> uname -a:
> 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42

Like some one else suggested, check out burncd it will take care of
ATAPI CDRW drives nicely. The place where it becomes hard is getting
atapicam to work, not had much luck with this myself.


/me currently has a DVD combo drive he is using with it pleasantly