burncd no longer in 10.0?

[Volker Nebel]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Polytropon wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:59:38 +0100 (CET), Volker Nebel wrote:
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> Since this year, my macmini is running under FreeBSD 10.0 :)
>>     Now I wanted to burn a CD, hoping not to run into technical
>> difficulties with the CD drive connected via USB... But I already fail
>> when I want to issu [CMD]burncd ...[\CMD] - this program seems not to
>> exist at all! I have installed cdrtools-3.00_2 for [CMD]mkisofs[\CMD],
>> but burncd does not exist, so the handbook says, it should be part of the
>> basesystem!
>>     Any ideas?
>
> The reason might be the deprecation of the acd (ATAPI CD) driver
> subsystem. The corresponding device files like /dev/acd0 for data
> tracks and even /dev/acd0tXX (00-99) for audio traks have gone.
> The control interface also has been eliminated, so burncd has
> nothing to talk to. In my opinion, removing it from the installation
> was the logical consequence. What should follow is a note in the
> handbook to avoid the confusion you have been running into.
>
> During the last years, "SCSI over ATA" has been perfectioned and
> merged into the kernel, beginning with "device atapicam" and now
> being the standard interface. This way, all recording utilities
> that "talk the SCSI language" can access PATA and SATA recorders
> in the same way they could with SCSI recorders for decades. So
> your best choice would be to migrate to those tools. They include
> cdrecord, cdrdao, cdparanoia and growisofs.
>
> Note that on older systems (for example v8) both interfaces could
> be used in parallel. Here's an example from my home desktop with
> both "device atapicd" and "device atapicam" in the kernel:
>
> First the ATAPI devices as you would expect them to be used with
> burncd:
>
> % dmesg | grep ^acd
> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N/RL00> at ata1-master UDMA66
> acd1: DVDROM <HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0L30> at ata1-slave UDMA33
>
> % atacontrol list
> ATA channel 1:
>    Master: acd0 <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N/RL00> ATA/ATAPI revision 7
>    Slave:  acd1 <HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0L30> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
>
> And here they are in their SCSI incarnation:
>
> % dmesg | grep ^cd
> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N RL00> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd0: 66.000MB/s transfers
> cd1 at ata1 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0
> cd1: <HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L30> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd1: 33.000MB/s transfers
>
> % camcontrol devlist
> <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N RL00>    at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0)
> <HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L30>   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1)
>
> Commands like cdrdao and cdrecord expect you to specify the device
> to record to as B:T:L or B,T,L (bus, target, logical unit number)
> as you can see from the outputs, but growisofs lets you use the
> device /dev/cd0 -- and you can use /etc/devfs.conf to make a symlink
> /dev/dvd@ -> /dev/cd0 appear so the examples from "man growisofs"
> will apply directly. :-)
>
>
>
>

Hi!

Thanks for the infos!
    I will try them later, at the moment I struggle to teach Java to my 
browser, and printing is another issue...

Best regards,
Volker