From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 19:49:23 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 5E38216A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:49:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A8E43D49 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:49:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4QJnKAq078749; Thu, 26 May 2005 21:49:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6B8CE6287; Thu, 26 May 2005 21:49:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:49:20 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Olaf Greve Message-ID: <20050526194920.GA77817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Olaf Greve , 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> <42958819.6030405@axis.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42958819.6030405@axis.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:49:23 -0000 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: > Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the=20 > interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or A= TA? I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. =20 > I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so= =20 > perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of=20 > another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult. > It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I=20 > still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is= =20 > to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD=20 > periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not=20 > intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no=20 > fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based=20 > interface, e.g. like sysinstall. >=20 > Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interfa= ce? The growisofs program from the dvd+rw-tools package is the program that does the actual burning. This is probably what you want. Things like k3b and gcombust et al are just front-ends. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFClihAEnfvsMMhpyURAvcFAJ0ZLVoqscgPUqPxZTpKAwelqL/6VQCfY3sw gUkOs6jSTN+bneInfxs1qMY= =doQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--