From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 08:26:30 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 1700816A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:26:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from yggdrasil.interstroom.nl (yggdrasil.interstroom.nl [80.85.129.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45FF43D5D for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:26:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from ip127-180.introweb.nl ([80.65.127.180] helo=[192.168.1.42]) by yggdrasil with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DbDgp-0003OL-00 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 10:26:03 +0200 Message-ID: <42958819.6030405@axis.nl> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:26:01 +0200 From: Olaf Greve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.4.1.centos4 (X11/20050323) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: <20050525113233.I47072@mail.goinet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Interstroom virusscan, please e-mail helpdesk@interstroom.nl for more information X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4? 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: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:26:30 -0000 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