From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 11:30:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEAF37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from carbon.berkeley.netdot.net (carbon.berkeley.netdot.net [216.27.190.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B533B43FD7 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@netdot.net) Received: by carbon.berkeley.netdot.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 6E555F80B; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:30:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:30:33 -0800 From: Nicholas Esborn To: Tom Limoncelli Message-ID: <20030328193033.GA56129@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning data DVDs from FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:30:35 -0000 Tom, I've used cdrtools (available in the ports) and the binary ProDVD version of cdrecord, available from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/. The author has published a speed-limited license for non-commercial use. I use mkisofs to create an ISO9660 filesystem, like I would for a CD-R. I understand mkisofs can create UDF filesystems too these days, but I haven't tried that yet. I use RockRidge attributes, which UNIX and MacOS X can utilize. Then I use cdrecord-prodvd to burn the ISO to the DVD. I needed atapicam(4) for cdrecord to recognize my Panasonic LF-D311. Cdrecord writes the image to the DVD-R without drama. Takes forever at 1x though. If you want faster write speed (or if you are using cdrecord commercially) then you can buy a license that unlimits the write speed. As for the burner hardware, I use the aforementioned Panasonic. It's a DVD-RAM/DVD-R. The DVD-RAMs are nice for archiving data; they're a lot like the old magneto-optical disks, except with a 9 GB maximum per disk. It's an obscure format, however. DVD-RW and +RW drives are much more common these days. Still, you can use the plain DVD-R format to exchange data with others if that's important to you. As for the Dell notebook, the only thing that comes to mind would be to use a USB/ATAPI drive case. It would be slow. Of course, the Panasonic drive maxes out at 1 or 2 MB/sec for most stuff anyway. -nick On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:35:45AM -0500, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > Each month I have a lot of data that needs to be archived to reliable > medium. I'd like to be able to burn it onto DVD-ROM from a FreeBSD box. > > While this isn't really a multimedia issue, people have recommended > that I ask here for obvious reasons. However, I want to point out, > this is not video data, just general UNIX files. > > So, my specific question is: > Does anyone have recommendations of a DVD burner and software that > works for them under FreeBSD? > Does anyone have recommendations for a solution that would work on a > Dell C640 laptop? > > Thanks in advance, > --tal > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Nicholas Esborn Unix Systems Administrator Berkeley, California