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

[Jorn Argelo]

On 3/11/2004, "Vulpes Velox" <kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com> wrote:

>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.

That's strange, I never had any problems with atapicam at all. I just
added the option in the kernel and I kept the SCSI bus options. Like
that it worked for me on 5.1, 5.2 and 5.2.1.

Cheers,

Jorn