Re: Funding ODD support

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:55 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > I'm looking for somebody who has time and knowledge to fix ODD support
> > in FreeBSD.
> > I'm willing to sponsor a decent ammount.
> > My problem is that I can't use FreeBSD for any task in which CD or DVD
> > is involved.
> > What I want is read/write support for any ATAPI/S-ATA ODD regarding
> > ISO9660 and audio. Of course I'd love to have UDF support also, but for
> > the beginning I'd be glad if FreeBSD could boot with an inserted audio
> > CD. This has been a problem for more than two years now, and disabling
> > DMA support for ata devices isn't a satisfying solution.
> > 
> > So if you think ypu can fix this and make growisofs and cdrtools working
> > with ATAPI and SATA devices, please contact me.
> > If we have working ODD support in 8.0-release I'll donate 100 extra bucks.
> 
> Funding is good, but could you first once more repeat what is your
> problem? Which controller do you use? Which drive? Which disks and which
> applications? Have you tried to use different controllers, drives,
> disks, applications? I am asking because there quite a lot of people
> successfully using ODD on FreeBSD.

FWIW, some of the recent changes do seem to have broken things a bit for
me... But I can't quite put my finger on where the breakage is.  Some
apps seem to work, depending on media, while other don't (that used to).
For example I can burn a data DVD using tkdvd, but not brasero.  brasero
does seem to be able to burn data cds, though I'm getting horrible
throughput which I don't understand.  (I seem to max at about 4x writing
cds on a 48x cd burner, IIRC).  I haven't found any tool that is able to
write a DL dvd, currently.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
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