From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 13 6: 8: 0 2002 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 0652437B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 06:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB6C43E65 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 06:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g8DD7rD29662; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:07:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3D81E4F2.5000304@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:15:30 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? References: <200209130957.23975@gjm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gareth McCaughan wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a DVD writer as a backup device > for use with my -STABLE system. It's not clear to me what > level of support there is for this in -STABLE. > > 1. If I just want to treat a DVD as an unusually large CD, > will that "just work"? I mean, can I build a 4GB ISO9660 > filesystem using "mkisofs" and then write it to DVD using > "burncd"? The documentation for "mkisofs" implies that > arbitrarily large filesystems are possible, but neither the > manpage nor the source for "burncd" says that anything > other than plain ol' CDs are supported. > > 2. What's the state of UFS support, if any? Should I care? > > 3. Can I assume safely that any DVD writer that claims > ATAPI compliance can be used happily with -STABLE? > If not: the particular device I'm currently looking at > is the Pioneer DVR-A04. It's a DVD-R/W drive; the > manufacturer's web page says its interface is > "ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5 & MCC3, SFFCINF 8090 Ver.5)". The last time I looked at this, the answer was "no, you can't burn DVDs in FreeBSD yet" I just send an email to Soren to see if he needs hardware to develop with, we're ready to donate a DVD-burner to help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message