From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 12:50:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31C416A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:50:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E78D43D4C for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from freesurf.fr (jose.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.13]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 85FAD2A724B for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:50:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.98.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ogautherot) by jose.freesurf.fr with HTTP; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:50:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20958.194.98.178.34.1107521413.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:50:13 +0100 (CET) From: "Olivier Gautherot" To: X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: References: Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Dual Layer DVD Writing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: olivier@gautherot.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:50:16 -0000 Hi Laurence! >> If the file you are writing is larger than (700MB?) it won't write on >> anything. If you're trying to write one big 7 gig file, it won't work. >> If you have 7 gigs worth of files smaller than 700 meg each, then it >> should work just fine. >> > Well that's not correct as I've already written 3.9G files. It just > balks at a 4.9G file, even though I have dual-layer media in a > dual-layer capable drive. Between 3.9G and 4.9G, there is a 4G boundary which may interfere if your file system supports only 32 bits. I've had similar issues with a FAT32 and an ext2fs partitions and huge backups - that's why I fly only with UFS partitions under FBSD 5.3 and wiped out Linux from the disk. Note that video DVDs are organized with several video files (often not exceeding 1G). My cent worth... Olivier