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[Gary Kline]

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



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