From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 12: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D4A154A4 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA10397; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:03:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:03:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? In-Reply-To: <70996.934828800@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Mkisofs is good for creating an ISO 9660 file systems. Wormcontrol and > > dd are a good combination for writing them. > > This would be true if the worm driver wasn't actually dead. You > should at least check on these things before publically recommending > obsolete mechanisms. :) Wormcontrol uses WORM ioctls, handled by both of the ATAPI drivers. > > In the world of CAM these days, cdrecord from the ports collection is > the way to go. "dd" was also never a good way of writing CDs since the > faster models may suffer from data starvation when you use dd, you > want to use cdrecord and/or team from the ports collection to do this. But ATA and wcd are both not CAM. dd works just fine. You can solve data starvation by using a pipe of two (one to do all the reading, another to do all the writing with the small buffer size.) cdrecord is probably more obvious to most people. > > And yes, I've burned probably thousands of CDs under FreeBSD at this > point and do know what I'm talking about, should Brian wish to > vigorously defend the indefensible again on these points. :-) Your points are arguments to a different set of statements ;) > > - Jordan > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message