Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Mitchell <skeezix@skeleton.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD burning.. Message-ID: <20050802112250.G551@fw.skeleton.org> In-Reply-To: <42EECAFC.3000800@mac.com> References: <20050801170353.P10855@fw.skeleton.org> <42EECAFC.3000800@mac.com>
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with some other sysctl's (before I found out about /etc/sysctl.conf), and that one is read-only by that stage of loading. Had to be in /boot/loader.conf to 'take'. # to send enough data to the burner to run at 4x, perhaps try burning at 1x # speed and see whether that is more reliable. (Often that works better with # low-quality DVD-R media, anyway...) Seems to be chugging away nicely now: 738590720/2937458688 (25.1%) @3.9x, remaining 7:23 757071872/2937458688 (25.8%) @3.9x, remaining 7:17 775520256/2937458688 (26.4%) @3.9x, remaining 7:12 So I imagine I'm good to go :) This ought to me nightly automated backups a snap! Thanks Chuck, Greg and others who emailed me diretly. jeff -- "Have you played Atari today?"
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