From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 8:31:13 2003 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 3259837B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA5543F93 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h25GV8Tb000887; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:31:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E662637.3040902@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:30:47 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: oremanj@www.get-linux.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD burner suggestions References: <20030304001702.80399.qmail@www.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030304001702.80399.qmail@www.get-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG oremanj@www.get-linux.org wrote: > [Sorry - forgot to CC the list...] >>For some backups at work, I'm thinking of getting a DVD burner. I was >>looking at the Sony dru500a, since its compatible with all the various >>dvd media out there. Has anyone had any luck/experience with this drive >>(or any dvd burner)? > > I have the Sony DRU500a drive (internal IDE version). It works well: > $ mkisofs -r -o dvd.iso /some/large/tree/no/bigger/than/4.4g > [snip] > ## You might not need to do the next command more than once > ## per DVD. Substitute dvd-rw for dvd+rw if you're using that. > $ burncd -F -f /dev/acd0 format dvd+rw > $ burncd -f /dev/acd0 dvdrw dvd.iso > You might need to be root for those burncd commands; I'm not sure. > I think there's a cdrecord look-alike called dvdrecord, but I have no > experience with it. I'm not sure what the commands look like if you're > using DVD-R or DVD+R, but I assume something like `burncd -f /dev/acd0 > data dvd.iso fixate' would work. What version of FreeBSD does this work in? Do I need 5.0 or will the latest 4.X work? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message