Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:19:32 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20020913101932.A68944@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200209130957.23975@gjm>; from Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com on Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:57:23AM %2B0100 References: <200209130957.23975@gjm>
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:57:23 +0100, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a DVD writer as a backup device > for use with my -STABLE system. It's not clear to me what > level of support there is for this in -STABLE. > > 1. If I just want to treat a DVD as an unusually large CD, > will that "just work"? I mean, can I build a 4GB ISO9660 > filesystem using "mkisofs" and then write it to DVD using > "burncd"? The documentation for "mkisofs" implies that > arbitrarily large filesystems are possible, but neither the > manpage nor the source for "burncd" says that anything > other than plain ol' CDs are supported. > > 2. What's the state of UFS support, if any? Should I care? > > 3. Can I assume safely that any DVD writer that claims > ATAPI compliance can be used happily with -STABLE? > If not: the particular device I'm currently looking at > is the Pioneer DVR-A04. It's a DVD-R/W drive; the > manufacturer's web page says its interface is > "ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5 & MCC3, SFFCINF 8090 Ver.5)". > > Thanks in advance for any replies. I'll be checking the list, > but copies to me would be helpful as I'm not actually subscribed. > > (I already tried asking on -questions, by the way. No reponse.) If you want out of the box support for DVD burning, no, it isn't there yet. That said, if I wanted to use a DVD burner on -stable, here's what I'd do: - apply Thomas Quinot's ATAPICAM patches for -stable: http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/ - contact Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> about getting a cdrecord-prodvd binary for FreeBSD-stable. See: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ProDVD/ ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ProDVD/README Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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