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[Andrew L. Gould]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800
Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100
> > Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> wrote:
> > > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > >       I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform.
> > > > >       Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to
> > > > >       be?  In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners?
> > > > >       Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC...  I'll
> > > > > 2-check.
> > > > >
> > > > >       thanks in advance,
> > > > >
> > > > >       gary
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in
> > > > FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I
> > > > have in two FreeBSD machines now is:
> > > >
> > > > acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04> at ata1-slave PIO4
> > > >
> > > > The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since
> > > > 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working
> > > > great.
> > > >
> > > > -Mark
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > GnuPG Public Key:
> > > > http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc
> > > >
> > > > Internet Radio:
> > > > Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com
> > > > Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net
> > > >
> > > > IRC:
> > > > MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device
> > > driver for a dvd burner...
> > > It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to
> > > write data to it..
> > > 
> > > Please correct me....
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Pietro Cerutti
> > > <pietro.cerutti at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal
> > > <www.beansidhe.ch>
> > 
> > Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No
> > additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners.
> 
> 	So either thw NEC on the Lite-On burner ought to just-work.
> 	That's great because I'm tired of not being able to burn 
> 	stuff myself.  
> 
> > 
> > To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to
> > recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which
> > is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port
> > also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use
> > cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner.
> > 
> > Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html
> > 
> 
> 	OT, but could you burn say 5 audio CD's onto a DVD and listen
> 	on your computer?  Just wondering why nobody had audio on 
> 	"DVD"-length discs.
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public
> service Unix
> 

I've burned mp3's to DVD's, which works great on the computer.
I've never understood why the portable CD players that can play mp3's
aren't DVD-ROM's.

Andrew