From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 20:23:14 2002 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 0B26C37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C70A43E86 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g7H3N9Ce013345; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:23:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:23:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: robert Backhaus Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does `mkisofs ./BurnMe |burncd -f /cdv/acd0c data - fixate' work? Message-ID: <20020817032309.GF74231@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020817030219.90618.qmail@web12906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020817030219.90618.qmail@web12906.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 16), robert Backhaus said: > ./BurnMe is a directory that I wish to copy. doing it in one step, > piping through may risk buffer under-runs (Unless newer drive's > under-run protection is active -?-) but would be usefull if you > didn't have disk space for two copies of your disk (Original + iso) > > If the answer is `Don't know', I'll risk a few 75c coasters to find > out. I need a system backup or three It's definitely possible with cdrecord, since you can specify a large buffer and also enable underrun protection. It doesn't look like burncd supports either option. You might be able to simulate the large buffer by piping through "team 4m 8" between your mkisofs and burncd commands. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message