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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:15:41 -0500
From:      Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1014939189.26242a@mired.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backups to DVD-R
Message-ID:  <0523FAF0-28C4-11D6-ADCB-0003931BED80@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <f0433014db89deb2feae8@[192.168.1.21]>

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On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 08:03 , Doug Hardie wrote:

> At 17:16 -0700 2/23/02, Scott Long wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:33:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> To be more precise, you may burn an iso9660 filesystem to a DVD-R, just
>> like a CD-R.  Look at mkisofs in ports for more info.  In the future
>> you will be able to put a UDF filesystem on both DVD-R and CD-RW,
>> allowing you to treat it just like a huge floppy.  That is a few months
>> off, though.
>
> I have been backing up to CD-R for some time.  However, the only DVD-R 
> drive I am aware of uses a firewire interface.  I throught cdrecord was 
> limited to SCSI drives.  What firewire interfaces are supported?
> -- -- Doug
>

they come with IDE interfaces too (though that may not help with cdrecord

Chad


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