On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Mkisofs is good for creating an ISO 9660 file systems. Wormcontrol and
> > dd are a good combination for writing them.
>
> This would be true if the worm driver wasn't actually dead. You
> should at least check on these things before publically recommending
> obsolete mechanisms. :)
Wormcontrol uses WORM ioctls, handled by both of the ATAPI drivers.
>
> In the world of CAM these days, cdrecord from the ports collection is
> the way to go. "dd" was also never a good way of writing CDs since the
> faster models may suffer from data starvation when you use dd, you
> want to use cdrecord and/or team from the ports collection to do this.
But ATA and wcd are both not CAM. dd works just fine. You can solve data
starvation by using a pipe of two (one to do all the reading, another to
do all the writing with the small buffer size.) cdrecord is probably
more obvious to most people.
>
> And yes, I've burned probably thousands of CDs under FreeBSD at this
> point and do know what I'm talking about, should Brian wish to
> vigorously defend the indefensible again on these points. :-)
Your points are arguments to a different set of statements ;)
>
> - Jordan
>
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