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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:53:25PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [Apologies if this winds up being a duplicate.  My initial mail never arrived]
> 
> Now that dual-layer DVD burners are available at a respectable price, I
> am considering getting one to backup my system.  I'm not too fussed about
> UDF support - I'd be happy if I can write a stream of bytes and get them
> back again.  Can I just treat a DVD+/-RW as a big CD-RW and use burncd?
>

DL DVD+R burning is supported by last version of growisofs
(sysutils/dvd+rw-tools).  Have a look to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html

> Does anyone have any experience with the LG GSA-4120B?  Alternatively,
> does any have any suggestions for drives to get or avoid?
> 

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html
http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/ archives

But all these links are already given in the Handbook page.

Marc