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> References: <20051104081831.GA4903@lothlorien.nagual.st>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?436B2963.5070101>