From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 10:04:28 2003 Return-Path: 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 BD65C37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB65143FEA for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 86839 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jul 2003 17:07:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:07:34 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030703170734.GD86503@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <000d01c34161$3866cc00$99210343@compaq7058> <3F04419C.1030702@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F04419C.1030702@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:04:29 -0000 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote: > cp wrote: > >We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. > >We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB > >IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There > >are no USB devices being used now and only > >a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. > > > >I read the compatibility notes and searched > >Google for the wide range of devices available. > >So far it appears that querying or searching this > >list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid > >days of messing around ;-). > > > >Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD > >burner would present the least possible hassle in > >installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, > >make a new kernel and simply use it to write > >complete CD snapshots to store offsite. > > Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would > assume > that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right > now > and will continue to be the best. I have one too! It's great. You can write +RW with burncd, -R and -RW with dvdrecord (which I may someday submit a port for; it needs some patches to install) and +R with... well... why would you use +R anyway? :-) You can also write CD-R and CD-RW w/cdrecord. And if you want video DVDs, encode the MPEG yourself, and there's a program that comes with dvdrecord to generate the layout. So get the internal IDE DRU500A, and you won't regret it! -- Josh > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"