From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 01:03:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AC6106564A for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F15E8FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-197.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.197]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DCC16C018C; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:03:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n0P13oQQ001594; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:03:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:03:49 +0100 From: Polytropon To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-Id: <20090125020349.47c3eb68.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <497a08f0.M7aLYVzoum+g95mw%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20090123011043.GA86638@thought.org> <497954FE.8050206@gmail.com> <497a08f0.M7aLYVzoum+g95mw%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tajudd@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:03:58 -0000 On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:08 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > You can always try to tar it up directly > > > > tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ > > Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by > the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible > to burn an existing .iso by something like > > dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b 1st: On FreeBSD, using direct write calls would involve the ATAPICAM facility, so /dev/cd0 instead of /dev/acd0 would be the correct device. 2nd: I'm not sure this works on FreeBSD, but I remember having used something similar on a SCSI CD recorder on a Sun or SGI system. I'm not sure which one it was, but it allowed to handle CDs the same way as other SCSI devices, like tape drives. You could try it out by loading the ATAPICAM subsystem (via kldload or compiled into kernel) and then try one of the commands above. I'm not sure dd works, but tar should. But to be honest, I've never tried it out because I'm very comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao, and was with burncd in the past. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...