From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 03:18:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981AF16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2272A43D1F for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timbo@dansat.data-plan.com) Received: (qmail 87818 messnum 3234782 invoked from network[213.94.228.233/unknown]); 20 Feb 2004 11:18:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dansat.data-plan.com) (213.94.228.233) by mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 87818) with SMTP; 20 Feb 2004 11:18:48 -0000 Received: from dansat.data-plan.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dansat.data-plan.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1KBLEc5090471; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:21:14 GMT (envelope-from timbo@dansat.data-plan.com) Received: (from timbo@localhost) by dansat.data-plan.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id i1KBLDLc090470; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:21:13 GMT Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:21:08 +0000 From: Tim Bunce To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040220112108.GC90228@dansat.data-plan.com> References: <20040219135909.B38806@pooker.samsco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040219135909.B38806@pooker.samsco.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Pete French cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This here DVD-RAM thing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:18:59 -0000 On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:11:23PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Pete French wrote: > > > Don't believe what your vendor says - for example LG's formatting tool and > > > documentation for Windows claims NTFS isn't possible either, but it > > > > Umm, sorry - not what I meant. What I meant was that I didnt think it was > > supported under 4-STABLE FreeBSD. What program did you use to format > > the drive as UDF ? Or are you using -CURRENT (which I have not yet tried, > > though the nice new amd64 is just begging for testing 5.2.1 when its out) > > DVD-RAM drives have been supported for quite some time. UDF support is > only for 5.x and only read-only at the moment. In any case, I know of > people that use UFS on DVD-RAM in 4.x on a regular basis. It gives the > appearance of being no different than a normal drive. Can someone recommend a good quality DVD-RAM that'll work well with FreeBSD? Or point me to some where I can read some comparative reviews. Tim.