Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:46:17 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: burncd and dvd-drives Message-ID: <20051104084617.GA27967@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:18:31AM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I was and am a great fan of the burncd utility. > Very fast, simple and cli.. Cdrecord is also a cli program. And you probably have it installed, because mkisofs is in the same port. :-) It does need atapicam, though. > But as almost any new computer is supplied with a dvd drive this nice > program has become quit useless. It does not support those drives. Hmm, cdrecord happily burns CDs in a recorder that's also capable of burning DVDs. > My question is: will it ever do? > > I mean, cd-rom drives are losing terrain with each day passed. > Or will I be "forced" to either buy an oldfashioned cdrom drive in my > new machines? ; or recompile for atapicam ? ; or any other solution? For burning DVD's you can use /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. I'm using atapicam, so I don't know if it works with plain ATAPI drives. The manual page for growisofs implies you need (simulated) SCSI. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDax/ZEnfvsMMhpyURAkw/AKCcnV5RpoVaM+DmG8emhLnIpnWYkQCeP6tA fX52dm3ZQARkael+L8npeP8= =CIjv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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