From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 12:20:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09ED337B423 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [166.70.6.150] (helo=clay.slc.ut.us) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 13QEAi-0006rX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:20:49 -0600 Received: (from trevin@localhost) by clay.slc.ut.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA21385 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:20:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on NetBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:20:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Trevin Beattie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Curious about support for large-sector drives and DVD-RAM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm actually a NetBSD user, but I've been discouraged lately about the lack of support for drives with more than 512 bytes per sector. I was wondering whether FreeBSD has any trouble with 1K- or 2K-sectored drives (e.g. MO640). Also, I'd like to know how well FreeBSD drivers work for DVD-RAM. I got a Creative DVD-RAM drive thinking that my OS would be able to at least handle it with the mkisofs and cdrecord utilities; however, I found out that cdrecord only works with DVD-R, not DVD-RAM. I don't particularly care about the UDF filesystem--I don't need to read any DVD archives in Windoze--but I would like to use a dynamic filesystem such as ffs. And as long as I'm here, is there anybody who has used both flavors of BSD who can tell me whether there are any administrative differences (other than supported platforms) between NetBSD and FreeBSD? Such as file locations, configuration files (the /etc tree), package installation, development tools (one of the things that bugs be about NetBSD's `make' is that it's often incompatible with Gnu makefiles and vice-versa), disk structure, ... Whoa-- I was just browsing the FreeBSD Handbook; does VMWare actually *work* on FreeBSD?! On NetBSD, I couldn't even get it to INSTALL! --- Trevin Beattie She's genuinely bogus. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message