On 09/26/2011 18:43, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Doug Barton <dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >>> burncd has been part of the system utilities included in the basic >>> release since release 4.0 and cdrecord is a port. The professional >>> solution is to remove burncd from the 9.0 system release and add the >>> cdrecord command to the basic release as the replacement for burncd. >>> Then add release notes entry of the change. >> >> I think you misunderstand the situation. So here are a few hopefully >> helpful facts: >> >> 1. The fact that something is in the base, or in the ports, has >> absolutely no bearing on whether one piece of software is fundamentally >> more useful or valuable than another. > > > Hi, > > I have used burncd on many releases of FreeBSD, on many machines > without problem. I can see the fact that burncd suddenly failing to > work on ATAPI hardware could annoy and confused end-users. It doesn't fail to work on ATAPI hardware. It fails to work on cd0 which is a SCSI device. The fact that it's emulated doesn't matter. > Can we modify burncd to somehow detect if ATAPI-CAM is enabled, and print out > a more useful error message? Sure, as soon as someone volunteers to create that patch. No one is *trying* to annoy users, but things change around here because people are interested in changing them. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/Received on Mon Sep 26 2011 - 23:58:16 UTC
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