Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:26:01 +0200 From: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4? Message-ID: <42958819.6030405@axis.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050525113233.I47072@mail.goinet.com> References: <51d7a516050524080843451d09@mail.gmail.com> <4580439D-D489-4471-A026-4D8443B92C2D@mac.com> <51d7a5160505242334249e368b@mail.gmail.com> <42948BE4.4060404@axis.nl> <20050525113233.I47072@mail.goinet.com>
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Hi, Thanks for your replies! Ronald wrote: >Over the years Plextor CD and DVD rewriters have served me well. That's >why I chose a PX-712A for my amd64 system. It works flawlessly with >cdrecord and growisofs via the CAM SCSI subsystem. Tnx! I'll take a look at that one. Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or ATA? I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? Tony wrote: > My understanding is that any burner will show up and give you a block > device, rather it's the authoring software that has the burden to > recognize the burner for what it really is, and make full use of it. > > That said, what authoring software are you intending to use? I've had > lots of luck in the past using K3B. Are you going old sk00l and using > mkisofs? ;) It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based interface, e.g. like sysinstall. Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interface? Tnx and cheers, Olafo
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