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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2005 21:49:20 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
Message-ID:  <20050526194920.GA77817@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <42958819.6030405@axis.nl>
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote:
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> Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the=20
> interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or A=
TA?

I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for
growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD,
but it doesn't mention FreeBSD.
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> I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so=
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> perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of=20
> another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect?

I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult.

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> It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I=20
> still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is=
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> to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD=20
> periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not=20
> intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no=20
> fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based=20
> interface, e.g. like sysinstall.
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> Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interfa=
ce?

The growisofs program from the dvd+rw-tools package is the program that
does the actual burning. This is probably what you want. Things like k3b
and gcombust et al are just front-ends.

Roland
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