From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 15 7:52:16 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 48B5E37B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF4243E42 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8FEqBKD084080; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:52:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8FEqAxL084079; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:52:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:52:10 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: Erminio Baranzini , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20020915085210.A84028@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20020914160456.47748.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com> <200209141344.43836.bts@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200209141344.43836.bts@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:44:43PM -0400 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 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