From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 11:32:29 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 1417037B405 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C0E43F93 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3OIWP0n001564; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:32:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EA82DB9.2050203@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:32:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Fetch References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using DVD for backups? 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, 24 Apr 2003 18:32:29 -0000 Ivan Fetch wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to start using a DVD drive for backups on a FreeBSD > 5.0-Release machine. I'm curious whether others out there already do > this, and have particular recommendations for DVD drives known to work? > My hope was that I could use the "IDE SCSI emulation" pat of the cam > driver and use cdrecord with the DVD drive as well. Already done this. Works well. See this page for info: http://www.whiterose.net/~mrpink/freebsd/dvdr.php I used the same Pioneer DVD burner he did. Also, used the same version of DVD-Record as he lists in the article. I was unable to get the newer version to work. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com