From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 9: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E94A37BD90 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA33988; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <00d001bfe43e$96995640$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "damon blom" , Subject: Re: CDRW backup Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:00:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have a nec pentium III with CD-RW cdrom from LG adaptec: > acd1: CD-RW I tried the example in afio to archive using the cdrecord utility: >find .. | afio -o -b 2048 -s325000x -v '!cdrecord .. -' >but it just created a disk file !cdrecord .. - >Do you offhand know of some way I can backup to a RW cdrom? Well, you can't use 'cdrecord' with an ATAPI CDRW, since it's for SCSI drives. For ATAPI drives, you have to use 'burncd' (in FreeBSD 4). Take a look at the way I got mine to work, at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?cdrw --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message