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Date:      Thu, 1 May 2003 15:41:10 -0700
From:      Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
To:        JR Richards <jr@ebcrp.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD+RW and FreeBSD 4.7
Message-ID:  <20030501224110.GB63276@webserver.get-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <002101c31004$7d08d3f0$4502a8c0@MINNIE>
References:  <002101c31004$7d08d3f0$4502a8c0@MINNIE>

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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:09:55AM -0700 or thereabouts, JR Richards seemed to write:
> Hello Folks,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 with a Sony DVD+RW drive and am trying to get
> this darn thing to work with burncd.
> 
> These are the packages that I added recently:
> Cdrtools-2.00
> Mkisofs-2.00

Not needed for +RW.

> 
> This is what happens when I try to run burncd by hand:
> 
> backup# burncd -q -f /dev/acd0c -s 10 data filename
> 
> burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCNEXTWRITEABLEADDR): Input/output error
>
> Can anyone help me get this thing up?

Sure.
To format a DVD+RW (needs to be done only once):
# burncd -f /dev/acd0c format dvd+rw
To write a file:
# burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s max dvdrw filename
It will erase the DVD if there's already stuff on it.

HTH,
-- Josh

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