On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: <snip> > Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the > interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or ATA?
I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. > I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so > perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of > another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult. <snip> > It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I > still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is > to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD > periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not > intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no > fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based > interface, e.g. like sysinstall. > > Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interface? The growisofs program from the dvd+rw-tools package is the program that does the actual burning. This is probably what you want. Things like k3b and gcombust et al are just front-ends. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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