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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:24:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        David J Brooks <freysman@comcast.net>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?
Message-ID:  <20071116222207.X84300@tripel.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711162121.25252.freysman@comcast.net>
References:  <20071117022321.GA92031@thought.org> <200711162121.25252.freysman@comcast.net>

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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David J Brooks wrote:

> On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote:
>> 	I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to  add in the
>> 	FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM  burners to work.  Ubuntu
>> 	installed ny 2005 burner automagically.  Nothing like that for
>> 	FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for
>> 	"udf" and "cd9660"?
>>
>> 	This is the old and current fstable:
>>
>>
>> # DVD drive (top)
>> /dev/acd0               /media/cdroms/0 udf     ro,noauto       0       0
>> # CD-burner (bottom)
>> /dev/acd1               /media/cdroms/1 cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
>
> cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want 
> to make it rw rather than ro.

Good point! Although my CD burner burns CDs just fine with either 
cdrecord or burncd, even with ro in its fstab line.

> This chapter of the handbook: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
>
> and the one that follows are worth a careful reading.

True dat.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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