Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:52:10 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Erminio Baranzini <aredat@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20020915085210.A84028@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200209141344.43836.bts@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:44:43PM -0400 References: <20020914160456.47748.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com> <200209141344.43836.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 13:44:43 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Does anybody know about the status of SCSI DVD writers in -STABLE, > including those that use USB and/or Firewire to communicate? The firewire code just got committed to -current. So it'll be MFCed at some point. The cd(4) driver supports randomly writeable drives, like DVD-RAM. (I used a DVD-RAM drive to test write support in the cd(4) driver.) If you've got something like a CD-R, or a DVD-R, that requires sequential writing, fixating, etc., you need to use cdrecord. There is a version of cdrecord that supports DVD burning -- cdrecord-prodvd. See my previous mail in this thread for the URLs. cdrecord will also work with ATAPI drives, assuming you've got the ATAPICAM option turned on. (That's only in -current as well, you'd need Thomas Quinot's patches for -stable to use it under -stable. It'll get MFCed, likely after 4.7.) USB drives should work, assuming you've got a supported USB controller. USB is just another transport (like firewire, SCSI, and ATA), so the answer would be the same there -- cd(4) for randomly writeable formats, and cdrecord for sequentially written formats. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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