From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 22:58:03 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 85EFE16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8580B43D5C for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1EmfZP-0007Vg-1r; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:57:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:54:49 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20051214165449.604d1fe5@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <20051214220453.GL41870@thought.org> References: <20051214185738.GB41870@thought.org> <43A06EE8.7060105@mkproductions.org> <20051214141423.29b2cc42@grokwell.org> <20051214220453.GL41870@thought.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc7364d5a1eac7f7554993e3ef68aae2b5350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Cc: FreeBSD , Pietro Cerutti 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 22:58:03 -0000 On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > 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 wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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 > I've burned mp3's to DVD's, which works great on the computer. I've never understood why the portable CD players that can play mp3's aren't DVD-ROM's. Andrew