From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 19:57:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887FF16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:57:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E0C43D66 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:57:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o37so249552nzf for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:57:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=t3qzIapQYmcJGhXKXSYHjKkRQyF739VpqBqRcQy44wFnq11qqKnU7x2dLWN1eaQckdjgcuN/F1e2TgM84nzHp7dGt4g99Nd1PfqjY7fxdYwrDCVQkp+8HUP37v4ZPisx1/XTxKc/1KkCirvmw77oda/g/divS8/tq6XCBCsbW1g= Received: by 10.64.251.5 with SMTP id y5mr730189qbh; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:57:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.150.18 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:57:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 From: Pietro Cerutti To: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <43A06EE8.7060105@mkproductions.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051214185738.GB41870@thought.org> <43A06EE8.7060105@mkproductions.org> Subject: Re: next question: dvd-burner. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:57:59 -0000 On 12/14/05, Mark Kane wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. > > Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to > > be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? > > Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > gary > > > > > > So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. > One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two > FreeBSD machines now is: > > acd0: DVDR at ata1-slave PIO4 > > The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I > replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. > > -Mark > > -- > GnuPG Public Key: > http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc > > Internet Radio: > Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com > Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net > > IRC: > MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) > Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me.... -- Pietro Cerutti Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"