Gareth McCaughan wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a DVD writer as a backup device > for use with my -STABLE system. It's not clear to me what > level of support there is for this in -STABLE. > > 1. If I just want to treat a DVD as an unusually large CD, > will that "just work"? I mean, can I build a 4GB ISO9660 > filesystem using "mkisofs" and then write it to DVD using > "burncd"? The documentation for "mkisofs" implies that > arbitrarily large filesystems are possible, but neither the > manpage nor the source for "burncd" says that anything > other than plain ol' CDs are supported. > > 2. What's the state of UFS support, if any? Should I care? > > 3. Can I assume safely that any DVD writer that claims > ATAPI compliance can be used happily with -STABLE? > If not: the particular device I'm currently looking at > is the Pioneer DVR-A04. It's a DVD-R/W drive; the > manufacturer's web page says its interface is > "ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5 & MCC3, SFFCINF 8090 Ver.5)".
The last time I looked at this, the answer was "no, you can't burn DVDs in FreeBSD yet" I just send an email to Soren to see if he needs hardware to develop with, we're ready to donate a DVD-burner to help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
