From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 15:25:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E56116A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:25:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from mail1.dm.egate.net (mail1.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C7843D5F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:25:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (h216-235-8-78.host.egate.net [216.235.8.78]) by mail1.dm.egate.net (8.12.11/8.12.1) with ESMTP id j72FOxuj047804; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (fw.skeleton.org [127.0.0.1]) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j72FOx5b000730; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:25:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from localhost (skeezix@localhost) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j72FOxcE000727; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) X-Authentication-Warning: fw.skeleton.org: skeezix owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Mitchell To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <42EECAFC.3000800@mac.com> Message-ID: <20050802112250.G551@fw.skeleton.org> References: <20050801170353.P10855@fw.skeleton.org> <42EECAFC.3000800@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD burning.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:25:03 -0000 On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with some other sysctl's (before I found out about /etc/sysctl.conf), and that one is read-only by that stage of loading. Had to be in /boot/loader.conf to 'take'. # to send enough data to the burner to run at 4x, perhaps try burning at 1x # speed and see whether that is more reliable. (Often that works better with # low-quality DVD-R media, anyway...) Seems to be chugging away nicely now: 738590720/2937458688 (25.1%) @3.9x, remaining 7:23 757071872/2937458688 (25.8%) @3.9x, remaining 7:17 775520256/2937458688 (26.4%) @3.9x, remaining 7:12 So I imagine I'm good to go :) This ought to me nightly automated backups a snap! Thanks Chuck, Greg and others who emailed me diretly. jeff -- "Have you played Atari today?"