From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 11:54:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E387A16A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:54:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41203.mail.yahoo.com (web41203.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B8BB43D53 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:54:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 34209 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Apr 2005 11:54:04 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=YQXUXcYkMLZ6zBl6TFD1XylYLxgNTJ2XQXceelibqk7a2HwcOV/9J+lHof7TMvUbnk831gpvq7dG3sNMwejeShPEB9NYnNe8nAtNFdnfro8U7ii8CKlCgQynPVwPkQYVaLQw62vTI35Z8/cNFIzgyY+/09mA7/IYJMaYFwadwBM= ; Message-ID: <20050413115404.34207.qmail@web41203.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [83.129.198.73] by web41203.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:54:04 PDT Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: "Søren" Schmidt In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: Followup to DVD Burning question X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:54:05 -0000 --- Søren Schmidt wrote: > Arne Wörner wrote: > > 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. > Why? I can read and write the same block of a DVD-RW round robin. I mean: > dd if=a of=/dev/acd0 bs=32k count=1 oseek=10 > dd if=/dev/acd0 of= /dev/null bs=32k count=1 iseek=10 > dd if=b of=/dev/acd0 bs=32k count=1 oseek=10 > dd if=/dev/acd0 of= /dev/null bs=32k count=1 iseek=10 > dd if=c of=/dev/acd0 bs=32k count=1 oseek=10 > dd if=/dev/acd0 of= /dev/null bs=32k count=1 iseek=10 ... This looks just like a hard disc to me... If the answer would be too complicated, I withdraw my question hereby... -Arne __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail