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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:21:08 +0000
From:      Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: This here DVD-RAM thing
Message-ID:  <20040220112108.GC90228@dansat.data-plan.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040219135909.B38806@pooker.samsco.home>
References:  <E1AtuwA-000J15-NE@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20040219135909.B38806@pooker.samsco.home>

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:11:23PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Pete French wrote:
> > > Don't believe what your vendor says - for example LG's formatting tool and
> > > documentation for Windows claims NTFS isn't possible either, but it
> >
> > Umm, sorry - not what I meant. What I meant was that I didnt think it was
> > supported under 4-STABLE FreeBSD. What program did you use to format
> > the drive as UDF ? Or are you using -CURRENT (which I have not yet tried,
> > though the nice new amd64 is just begging for testing 5.2.1 when its out)
> 
> DVD-RAM drives have been supported for quite some time.  UDF support is
> only for 5.x and only read-only at the moment.  In any case, I know of
> people that use UFS on DVD-RAM in 4.x on a regular basis.  It gives the
> appearance of being no different than a normal drive.

Can someone recommend a good quality DVD-RAM that'll work well with FreeBSD?
Or point me to some where I can read some comparative reviews.

Tim.



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