Re: [Libcdio-devel] Drive capabilities on FreeBSD, need work?

[Heiner]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:46, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Not sure about this actually, but I know that the atapicam driver is not in
> GENERIC kernel (the one installed by normal FreeBSD, and the one the config

You are right. But please read the chapters about cd and dvd burning. While cd 
burning works without cam (if you like command line tools), dvd doesn't (if 
you have an atapi drive). So it is not unlikely, that cam is installed.

> As cam doesn't work "out of the box", I think I'll start looking at ioctl
> to improve it.

"man 4 cd" shows 2 ioctls for ejecting and closing. There are even more 
ioctls, but not all of them work (like CDIOCCAPABILITY). Cam is imho the 
better choice.


Heiner