Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:30:33 -0800 From: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net> To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning data DVDs from FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030328193033.GA56129@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> In-Reply-To: <F14605B0-6132-11D7-A4AE-000A956888C8@lumeta.com> References: <F14605B0-6132-11D7-A4AE-000A956888C8@lumeta.com>
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Tom, I've used cdrtools (available in the ports) and the binary ProDVD version of cdrecord, available from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/. The author has published a speed-limited license for non-commercial use. I use mkisofs to create an ISO9660 filesystem, like I would for a CD-R. I understand mkisofs can create UDF filesystems too these days, but I haven't tried that yet. I use RockRidge attributes, which UNIX and MacOS X can utilize. Then I use cdrecord-prodvd to burn the ISO to the DVD. I needed atapicam(4) for cdrecord to recognize my Panasonic LF-D311. Cdrecord writes the image to the DVD-R without drama. Takes forever at 1x though. If you want faster write speed (or if you are using cdrecord commercially) then you can buy a license that unlimits the write speed. As for the burner hardware, I use the aforementioned Panasonic. It's a DVD-RAM/DVD-R. The DVD-RAMs are nice for archiving data; they're a lot like the old magneto-optical disks, except with a 9 GB maximum per disk. It's an obscure format, however. DVD-RW and +RW drives are much more common these days. Still, you can use the plain DVD-R format to exchange data with others if that's important to you. As for the Dell notebook, the only thing that comes to mind would be to use a USB/ATAPI drive case. It would be slow. Of course, the Panasonic drive maxes out at 1 or 2 MB/sec for most stuff anyway. -nick On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:35:45AM -0500, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > Each month I have a lot of data that needs to be archived to reliable > medium. I'd like to be able to burn it onto DVD-ROM from a FreeBSD box. > > While this isn't really a multimedia issue, people have recommended > that I ask here for obvious reasons. However, I want to point out, > this is not video data, just general UNIX files. > > So, my specific question is: > Does anyone have recommendations of a DVD burner and software that > works for them under FreeBSD? > Does anyone have recommendations for a solution that would work on a > Dell C640 laptop? > > Thanks in advance, > --tal > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Nicholas Esborn Unix Systems Administrator Berkeley, California
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