From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 23 17:15:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43F037B402 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [68.64.96.8] (helo=localhost) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 16enBt-000EfH-00; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:11:02 -0700 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:15:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Backups to DVD-R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: Scott Long , Mike Meyer , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org To: Doug Hardie From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <0523FAF0-28C4-11D6-ADCB-0003931BED80@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 08:03 , Doug Hardie wrote: > At 17:16 -0700 2/23/02, Scott Long wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:33:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: >> To be more precise, you may burn an iso9660 filesystem to a DVD-R, just >> like a CD-R. Look at mkisofs in ports for more info. In the future >> you will be able to put a UDF filesystem on both DVD-R and CD-RW, >> allowing you to treat it just like a huge floppy. That is a few months >> off, though. > > I have been backing up to CD-R for some time. However, the only DVD-R > drive I am aware of uses a firewire interface. I throught cdrecord was > limited to SCSI drives. What firewire interfaces are supported? > -- -- Doug > they come with IDE interfaces too (though that may not help with cdrecord Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message