Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?

[Olaf Greve]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies!

Ronald wrote:
 >Over the years Plextor CD and DVD rewriters have served me well. That's
 >why I chose a PX-712A for my amd64 system. It works flawlessly with
 >cdrecord and growisofs via the CAM SCSI subsystem.

Tnx!
I'll take a look at that one.

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 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?

Tony wrote:
> My understanding is that any burner will show up and give you a block 
> device, rather it's the authoring software that has the burden to 
> recognize the burner for what it really is, and make full use of it.
> 
> That said, what authoring software are you intending to use?  I've had 
> lots of luck in the past using K3B.  Are you going old sk00l and using 
> mkisofs? ;)

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?

Tnx and cheers,
Olafo