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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:35:57 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Arne_=5C=22W=F6rner=5C=22=22?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Followup to DVD Burning question
Message-ID:  <425D041D.6050706@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20050413082213.4015.qmail@web41213.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050413082213.4015.qmail@web41213.mail.yahoo.com>

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Arne Wörner wrote:
> --- Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>I asked recently about burning a DVD disk under FreeBSD,
>>and received several replies.  However I don't think I
>>explained myself clearly enough. 
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>Something like
>>cat /dev/cxm0 | growisofs -Z - 
>>would be ideal, but I don't know if or how well it would work.
>>
> 
> That's how I do backups with a DVD-RW:
>   tar cf - ... | dd of=/dev/acd0 obs=32k conv=osync
> 
> Unluckily my DVD-RW's cannot be used for UFS with my burner... I
> do not know why.

DVD-RW doesn't quite cut it for UFS, you need DVD+RW media for that.
However the limitted number of R/W operations the media will last is 
likely to be in the way for this to have any real usage...

-- 

-Søren




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