Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:26:59 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: burncd and dvd-drives Message-ID: <436B2963.5070101@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I was and am a great fan of the burncd utility. > Very fast, simple and cli.. > > 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. > > 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? > > Maybe I ask for to much. I'm no programmer myself. I have no idea > whatsoever about the code changes needed in burncd to support at least > the burning of CD's. (dvd's are different). > burncd is capable of burning dvd+rw and dvd+r and for this purposes I use it frequently. It is easy to use, part of the OS and, in my opinion, a very powerful tool. But burncd has problems burning and especially __closing__ cd-r, cd-rw (fixate does not work, fixating with cdrecord remains the previously broken media clear and usable after burning with burncd and fixating with cdrecord.home | help
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