From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 15:35:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8330037B68C for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e55MZLn01170; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006052235.e55MZLn01170@ptavv.es.net> To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for cdrom that writes for FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:55:34 PDT." <393C21D6.F6926608@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:35:21 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:55:34 -0700 > From: Kent Stewart > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > I haven't seen anything equivalent to DirectCD, which assumes you > could "cp something /dev/acd0c" (the CDROM IDE device). That doesn't > mean it doesn't exist. I haven't looked. I've never seen anything > really complicated that you simply copy to a device and don't have any > idea if such a program exists. It does not exist (yet). DirtectCD writes using a different file system developed for writable CDs and DVDs. It understands limits on how these beasts must write. This means support for this file system (UDF) needs to be written for FreeBSD. It is brought up from time to time, but it's not been done, yet. The last message I saw was that someone was going to dedicate some time to writing it, but I don't know just when it will show up. Even if I can't write UDF disks (and I don't have a CD-RW on my FreeBSD box), I'd love to at least be able to read them! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message