From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 20:17:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD9416A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:17:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1446543D6B for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:17:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1Emd49-00044n-0Y; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:17:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:14:23 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Pietro Cerutti Message-ID: <20051214141423.29b2cc42@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051214185738.GB41870@thought.org> <43A06EE8.7060105@mkproductions.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bccb1430247cd62ae54923ac5ea2951043350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: next question: dvd-burner. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:17:37 -0000 On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 12/14/05, Mark Kane wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. > > > Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to > > > be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? > > > Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. > > > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in > > FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have > > in two FreeBSD machines now is: > > > > acd0: DVDR at ata1-slave PIO4 > > > > The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since > > 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. > > > > -Mark > > > > -- > > GnuPG Public Key: > > http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc > > > > Internet Radio: > > Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com > > Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net > > > > IRC: > > MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) > > > > Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver > for a dvd burner... > It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write > data to it.. > > Please correct me.... > > > -- > Pietro Cerutti > > > Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal > Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Andrew