Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:09:29 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: mkes@ra.rockwell.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what filesystem for DVD Message-ID: <200008151609.e7FG9UU19127@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:02:19 %2B0200." <OF8D6CE2F0.08C0B953-ONC125693C.0046B064@ra.rockwell.com>
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> From: mkes@ra.rockwell.com > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:02:19 +0200 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi everybody > > I have server runing FreeBSD 4.0 and we have recently installed SCSI DVD > drive on that machine. > The main reason is that we wanted to use this for sharing of MSDN (M$ > developer network) library ( help files etc.) which M$ today offers also > on DVD. > Now the problem is that when mounted as cd9660 filesystem it allows me to > read only CDROMs but not the DVD. > > What filesystem should I use to be able to read the DVD ? Most DVDs are written in UDF format. This format is also used for CD-RW disks by Adaptec DirectCD. At this time there is no FreeBSD support for UDF, although there was a message earlier this year from someone who was going to write it. (I'd love to be able to read the UDF CD-RW disks from my PC.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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