Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Subject: Re: next question: dvd-burner. Message-ID: <20051214220453.GL41870@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051214141423.29b2cc42@grokwell.org> References: <20051214185738.GB41870@thought.org> <43A06EE8.7060105@mkproductions.org> <e572718c0512141157x5305c7d0vd3c09e28cc4aa58c@mail.gmail.com> <20051214141423.29b2cc42@grokwell.org>
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 > Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> 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 <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04> 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 > > <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> > > > > Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal > > <www.beansidhe.ch> > > Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No > additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. So either thw NEC on the Lite-On burner ought to just-work. That's great because I'm tired of not being able to burn stuff myself. > > To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to > recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is > in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also > burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to > burn CD's on the DVD burner. > > Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html > OT, but could you burn say 5 audio CD's onto a DVD and listen on your computer? Just wondering why nobody had audio on "DVD"-length discs. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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