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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE IDE CD-ROM problem Date: 23 Mar 1997 21:20:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5h46rp$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5gr11b$6eh$1@wn5.sci.kun.nl> <5grtus$d8r$1@wn5.sci.kun.nl> <5gsgre$rbe$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37640 Philipp Mergenthaler <p@hadii609.hadiko.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: > the manpage for workman says: > workman - play audio compact discs on a SCSI CD player > no wonder it doesn't work with an atapi drive. That's only since nobody ever changed the manpage. Workman does use the official API under FreeBSD (via ioctl's), so it is independent of the actual drive as long as the driver provides this interface (which you can see with cdcontrol(8)). So if workman doesn't work with the ATAPI drive, there's likely a bug somewhere. Don't ask me about it however, i think that all that ATAPI stuff is the second worst invention of the modern computer age, right after the so-called ISA PnP. Both are obsolete by design. Instead of ATAPI, there has already been a working standard for storage and other devices by the time ATAPI has been born. Incidentally, it's SCSI. Wrt. ISA PnP, there has already been a working and much more mature PnP standard around by the time this crock has been invented, it's PCI. If you don't know why ATAPI is sh*t, go and read the so-called ATA ``standard''. It's the funniest document i've ever seen that calls itself a standard. Or have you ever seen a real standard that contains the word ``may be'' (...according to this standard)? ATA does. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)