DVD burner error

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Wed Nov 24 20:21:11 PST 2004


On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:38 pm, cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:24:36PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > See the following links regarding burning cd's and dvd's.  With a
> > DVD burner, you need to add atapicam to the your kernel.  The use
> > of atapicam will also mean, however, that you will need to burn
> > cd's using cdrecord rather than burncd.
>
> Is it absolutely necessary to use cdrecord once atapicam is in the
> kernel? I'm using
>   # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -R -J /path/to/files
> for burning dvds and
>   # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 4 data /path/to/isofile fixate
> for burning cds interchangeably without problems.
>
> At least, no problems cropped up yet.
>
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-
> >cds.html
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-
> >dvds.html
>
> Thanks,
> cpghost.

Based upon your experience, the change to cdrecord would appear to be 
optional.  Can you still mount /dev/acd0 to /cdrom?

Andrew Gould


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