Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread O. Hartmann
ine (though the question is most likely not specific to the AMD64 version, I guess), and upon installation time the machine had a DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive. Yesterday I received a new drive, being a DVD-RW drive, and I replaced the previous one with the new one. O.k., no problem so far, and the BIOS se

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
AMD64 on my new machine (though the question is most likely not specific to the AMD64 version, I guess), and upon installation time the machine had a DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive. Yesterday I received a new drive, being a DVD-RW drive, and I replaced the previous one with the new one. O.k., no problem so fa

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Lutz
sion: mount /cdrom This fetches the necessary information from /etc/fstab. > However: what should the proper settings be for a DVD-RW drive? Surely > at least the 'ro' flag is incorrect, but is that all? No, that is correct. I don't think FreeBSD supports packet writing. In ot

How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Olaf Greve
is most likely not specific to the AMD64 version, I guess), and upon installation time the machine had a DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive. Yesterday I received a new drive, being a DVD-RW drive, and I replaced the previous one with the new one. O.k., no problem so far, and the BIOS seems to properly ide

dvd burning

2005-09-17 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hello, Is there any similar program to instantcopy for FreeBSD that compress dual-layer discs onto single layer 4.7GB recordable discs? thanks, PR __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-13 Thread Carl Delsey
Hmmm. That's not very obvious. I wouldn't have thought there was a connection between Gnome and the cdr and dvd tools. What led you to try that out? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Burn a DVD with a remote file

2005-09-13 Thread scuba
Hi all, Is there a better way to do that? # mkfifo xyz # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0c=xyz # ssh host1 'mkisofs -R -J -T /some/path' > xyz Thank you, - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-12 Thread bob self
My solution was to completely de-install gnome2 and it's associated ports. That removed about 100 ports. It's hard to believe that gnome would take over the system so thoroughly. Fluxbox works fine for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
The only problem I see with that is cjk-cdrtools has built in internationalization for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input somehow, so watch out because you might want to built a compatible version of dvdrw+tools from ports with internationalization enabled in that way. -Garrett

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-11 Thread Carl Delsey
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:11:37PM -0400, bob self wrote: > FreeBSD-6.0 beta 4 > > I'm trying to get DVD burning going according to the handbook. So, it > says to install "dvd+rw-tools". > But I get this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg_add -r dvd+rw-tools

can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-11 Thread bob self
FreeBSD-6.0 beta 4 I'm trying to get DVD burning going according to the handbook. So, it says to install "dvd+rw-tools". But I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg_add -r dvd+rw-tools Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-current/Latest/ dvd+rw-to

Re: hw for dvd writing

2005-09-04 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 4, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Paulo Roberto wrote: Would you guys put and old Celeron (running Freebsd 5.3) 266Mhz with 64MB for dvd writing? I have this old machine and I am thinking about buying an internal DVD writer for it, since it is cheaper than buying and external unit for my laptop

hw for dvd writing

2005-09-04 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hello, Would you guys put and old Celeron (running Freebsd 5.3) 266Mhz with 64MB for dvd writing? I have this old machine and I am thinking about buying an internal DVD writer for it, since it is cheaper than buying and external unit for my laptop. TIA Paulo

Re: DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: mkisofs -dvd-video I am aware of this option, however I am burning data, not video. You originally said mkisofs finished quickly. It shouldn't run any faster than your disk drive(s) can copy the data. My single

DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)
mkisofs -dvd-video % man mkisofs ... -dvd-video Generate DVD-Video compliant UDF file system. This is done by sorting the order of the content of the appropriate files and by adding padding between the files if needed. Note that the sort

DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)
The port sysutils/dvd+rw-tools provides growisofs, which should do the trick. HTH, Mario As far as I could derive from growisofs' man page, it only writes data out to a DVD, not to an image. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:28:13AM -0400, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: > > Does anyone know whether there is a way to force mkisofs to create a > DVD image or a different utility. Any input would be appreciated. mkisofs -dvd-video % man mkisofs ... -

Re: DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Sherman, Michael (GE Energy): > Does anyone know whether there is a way to force mkisofs to create > a DVD image or a different utility. Any input would be appreciated. The port sysutils/dvd+rw-tools provides growisofs, which should do the trick. HTH,

DVD image making utility, equivalent to mkisofs

2005-08-23 Thread Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)
Good day all! I've been trying to get mkisofs to create a DVD image for me on my FreeBSD (5.3) machine, in order to be able to burn it on Nero (Windows 2000). The utility does create an ISO image rather quickly, however when I open it with Nero, the program refuses to recognize it as

Re: problems mounting a DVD

2005-08-20 Thread David Syphers
On Saturday 20 August 2005 06:32 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: > David Syphers wrote: > >On Friday 19 August 2005 08:57 pm, Roshan wrote: > >>On 8/19/05, David Syphers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM driv

Re: problems mounting a DVD

2005-08-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
David Syphers wrote: On Friday 19 August 2005 08:57 pm, Roshan wrote: On 8/19/05, David Syphers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM drive, and not succeeding. Trying either 'mount_cd9660 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' or 'moun

Re: problems mounting a DVD

2005-08-19 Thread David Syphers
On Friday 19 August 2005 08:57 pm, Roshan wrote: > On 8/19/05, David Syphers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM drive, and not > > succeeding. Trying either 'mount_cd9660 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' or 'mount -t > &

Re: blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-19 Thread Carl Delsey
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:12:46AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:24:15AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I notice for DVD-RW it is possible to

problems mounting a DVD

2005-08-19 Thread David Syphers
I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM drive, and not succeeding. Trying either 'mount_cd9660 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' or 'mount -t udf /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' results in an 'Input/output error'. I've never tried mounting DVDs on this drive before, but I p

Re: blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:24:15AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: Hi Marc, Thanks for the quick reply. I notice for DVD-RW it is possible to return its "Disc status" to "blank" by running: "cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0

Re: blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-18 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:24:15AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I notice for DVD-RW it is possible to > return its "Disc status" to "blank" by running: > "cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 blank=all" > >

Re: blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Claudio Discepola wrote: I have a quick question about blanking a DVD+RW. It seems that even after I run the "growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/zero" command the "Disc status" is still seen as "complete" instead of "blank". Simply using dvd+rw-format doesn

Re: blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-18 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: > Hi, > > I have a quick question about blanking a DVD+RW. It seems that even > after I run the "growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/zero" command the "Disc > status" is still seen as "complete&

blanking DVD+RW

2005-08-18 Thread Claudio Discepola
Hi, I have a quick question about blanking a DVD+RW. It seems that even after I run the "growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/zero" command the "Disc status" is still seen as "complete" instead of "blank". Is there another option I should have put? (

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-05 14:09, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New discovery about ISO file systems (today): you can burn symlinks to > DVD, and they'll work under FreeBSD and Linux. They fail under > Microsoft. AFAIK, that only works if the image u

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 3 August 2005 at 14:51:06 +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:22:19AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> of coasters, and it might help identify the issues. All my burn >> failures (about 40% of total!) have been with DVD+Rs, though >

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-03 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:22:19AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > of coasters, and it might help identify the issues. All my burn > failures (about 40% of total!) have been with DVD+Rs, though > admittedly a cheap no-name brand bought in Taipei. I've found that >

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-08-02 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 31 July 2005 17:26, Warren Block wrote: > A way to tell if there's media in the drive would be nice... KAudioCreator does this. I don't know how. I've not looked. Somewhere to start though :-) -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:25:06PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 02 Aug Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > > > # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system > > >

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 02 Aug Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 02 Aug Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system > > isn't # able > > > > Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > # Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system isn't > # able > > Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with > some other sysctl's (bef

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Mitchell
one is read-only by that stage of loading. Had to be in /boot/loader.conf to 'take'. # to send enough data to the burner to run at 4x, perhaps try burning at 1x # speed and see whether that is more reliable. (Often that works better with # low-quality DVD-R media, anyway...) Se

Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-08-01 Thread Carl Delsey
t;>i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te > > >>dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode > > >> > > >>%dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank > > >>* DVD\uRW format utility by <[

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jeff Mitchell wrote: [ ... ] Installed the dvd tools to get growisofs since this seemed like the main alternative to cdrecord. (burncd didn't seem to like to burn DVDs, though I forget exactly its output.) growisofs seems to almost work, but breaks and is slow: growisofs

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 1 August 2005 at 17:09:46 -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > Built an iso with mkisofs, and can burn it out with burncd to CDR > no problem (if 700MB or less or so, of course.) > > For DVD, built a 2GB .iso using the same mkisofs command.. > > mki

DVD burning..

2005-08-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
So far I'm having no luck so thought I'd post and ask for help :) FreeBSD 5.4, BenQ DVD burner, using DVD-R media. GENERIC kernel with ATAPICAM added. Built an iso with mkisofs, and can burn it out with burncd to CDR no problem (if 700MB or less or so, of course.)

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-08-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: We could extend cdcontrol to display other pieces of information too, if necessary I guess. Oh, and besides whether or not media is present, a way to tell what type of media (CD, DVD, etc) is present would be nice. cdcontrol would be a nifty

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-08-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Some information is printed by cdcontrol too? # gothmog:/home/giorgos$ cdcontrol cdid # CDID=021dc601 # gothmog:/home/giorgos$ cdcontrol info # Starting track = 1, ending track = 1, TOC size = 18 bytes # track start duration block length t

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-30 20:34, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: >>> Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or >>> dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just giv

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 30 July 2005 at 14:16:17 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: >>> I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept >>> seg faulting. It worked fin

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or > > dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not > > its > > &qu

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Carl Delsey
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:16:17PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > I'd be happy to review or test them first if you'd like, but any changes of > this sort really ought to go upstream to Andy Polyakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or to the cdwrite mailing list at > . Thanks. I've just emailed Andy about t

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs tries to perform an oper

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Carl Delsey
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:54:25PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: > > I'm wondering if anybody else has seen this problem, and if you've > > found some other workaround for it? Or alternatively, you still have > > the problem and my

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: > I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept > seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. > > I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs > tries to perform an operation on a fil

Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-29 Thread Carl Delsey
I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs tries to perform an operation on a file handle it has already closed. I've implemented a workaround already. The probl

Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-07-29 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:17:15PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > > > > >>i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te > >

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 16:49 CEST schrieb Warren Block: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > > Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd > > or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, > > but not its "nam

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its "name". In k3b one can ask the info about a disc and get all the info about the inserted cd

Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-07-28 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te > dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode > > %dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank > * DVD\uRW format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-07-27 Thread Timothy Smith
i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode %dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank * DVD\uRW format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. * blanking 100.0| i

Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-27 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hi all, Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its "name". In k3b one can ask the info about a disc and get all the info about the inserted cd/dvd (disc type, tracks, sessions

Re: making dvd from videos. (- hey you're lucky!)

2005-07-25 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:47, nawcom wrote: > heres a script for converting your classic codec based avi file to a VOB > file for burning onto a DVD. i didnt test the program out, but i did > check to make sure it's freebsd compatible. and luckly all of the needed > programs

Re: making dvd from videos. (- hey you're lucky!)

2005-07-23 Thread nawcom
heres a script for converting your classic codec based avi file to a VOB file for burning onto a DVD. i didnt test the program out, but i did check to make sure it's freebsd compatible. and luckly all of the needed programs are in /usr/ports/multimedia. You're lucky! http://infern

Re: making dvd from videos.

2005-07-23 Thread nawcom
de Ben Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I need software to make dvd out of many divx, xvid, mpeg etc. video files. What I'd like to is convert them either to vcd or svcd and then make them dvd with simple menu. Which softwares I need for this? _

making dvd from videos.

2005-07-23 Thread Perttu Laine
Hello! I need software to make dvd out of many divx, xvid, mpeg etc. video files. What I'd like to is convert them either to vcd or svcd and then make them dvd with simple menu. Which softwares I need for this? -- kpn @ IRCnet ___ freebsd-ques

VHS to DVD conversion: problem with firewire, nfs, whatever

2005-06-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm trying to convert some of my old VHS cassettes to DVDs as those are more practical to hadle, and since the tape is becomming worn. I don't have a video-in intercafe on my wideo card, but I do have a digital MiniDV camcorder with the ability to do analog-digital pass-through by connection t

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-24 Thread Fabian Keil
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: > > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used > >

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
big means > 1 GB, but I'm not sure. >> >> You should still be able to extract the file with isoinfo >> from the cdrtools port. >> >> Fabian > >Once I've burned the DVD, how can I rejoin the files created using the >-split-output option so that I

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used > > mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the > > m

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-19 Thread Fabian Keil
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs > to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and > growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls

3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is moun

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-18 Thread atk2
bleh. I solved it by making hte device with mknod. Sorry for the spam. Alan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-18 Thread atk2
Thank you for the comments. I am now attempting to burn my first dvd and I keep getting this error: bash-2.05b# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd1a -R /a /b :-( unable to cam_open_pass("/dev/pass4",O_RDWR): No such file or directory -- I am unsure what causes this to happen. There

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread Ean Kingston
hat > the 'tape' it will be writing to can hold 4589840 kb (4.37 Gs), the size of > a standard dvd. > > Unfortunately, growisofs provides direct access to the DVD and dump does > not use a ISO compliant file format, so growisofs cannot find the end of > the last sessio

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread James Riendeau
(4.37 Gs), the size of a standard dvd. Unfortunately, growisofs provides direct access to the DVD and dump does not use a ISO compliant file format, so growisofs cannot find the end of the last session (who knew? :). I was told the way to do this properly is to dump a partition to a file in say /t

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /usr

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:14:50PM -0500, James Riendeau wrote: > I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it > goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out > how to dump to it: > > # dvd+rw-format /dev

FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread James Riendeau
I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /usr

Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, David Kelly wrote: In the future I suggest using readcd from the cdrtools port. It does a bit better handling end of device and recognizing multisession. Thanks! Now I would like to burn dvd.iso on a fresh dvd+rw medium. Could someone be so nice and give me the correct

Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread David Kelly
On Jun 12, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Peder Blom wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:08:21 +0200 (CEST) "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I created an .iso file from a dvd by # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=dvd.iso bs=2048 In the future I suggest using readcd from the cdrtools p

Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:29:00PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Tsampros Leonidas wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:08:21PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >>Hello! > >> > >>I created an .iso file from a dvd by > >># dd if=/

Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread Peder Blom
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:08:21 +0200 (CEST) "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I created an .iso file from a dvd by > # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=dvd.iso bs=2048 > Now I would like to burn dvd.iso on a fresh dvd+rw medium. > Could someone be so ni

[gaghiel: Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ???]

2005-06-12 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
- Forwarded message from Tsampros Leonidas - Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:02:31 + From: Tsampros Leonidas Subject: Re: burncd syntax for burning dvd ??? To: "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i On Sun, Jun

burncd syntax for burning dvd ???

2005-06-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hello! I created an .iso file from a dvd by # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=dvd.iso bs=2048 Now I would like to burn dvd.iso on a fresh dvd+rw medium. Could someone be so nice and give me the correct command line for this - seems I am too stupid to understand the man pages :-( . Thanks, Uli

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-09 Thread Danny Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do drives like the nec 3520 dvd-r,rw,... work ok under freebsd 4.x (9 or 10) as well as growisofs or do they require the 5.x branch? FWIW, I recently procured a nice Sony DVD+RW off Amazon.com for about $120 or so. Works like a charm in FreeBSD 4.x but you'll

dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-08 Thread atk2
Do drives like the nec 3520 dvd-r,rw,... work ok under freebsd 4.x (9 or 10) as well as growisofs or do they require the 5.x branch? Last but least does rw media have good (or as good as r only media) longevity on the shelf (aka if the media is used for backups?). It seems that r and rw media

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-30 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Tnx again for your answer! Most of what you need is already in the GENERIC kernel. The rest is a available as modules. IIRC, you have to load the cam.ko module. Just use the ATAPI DVD burner via CAM. AFAICT it's very stable. I haven't burnt a coaster yet. An SCSI DVD burner is b

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 27, 2005, at 2:49 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: More generally: does anyone have any experiences in using the 2200S under FreeBSD? Typically enough on Adaptec's site FreeBSD is not mentioned in the list of supported OSes (surprise, surprise...). However, on FreeBSD's list(s) of supported har

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:38:29PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: > > Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another > good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to > 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently

OT: SCSI DVD burners

2005-05-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Olaf Greve wrote: Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Hello. Sorry for the OT, but where do you find SCSI DVD burners? From which manufacturers/resellers? I never managed to find any and I thought they d

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, [...] 2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be connected

RE: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olaf Greve > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:49 AM > To: Roland Smith; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller... > > > Hi Rol

DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Olaf Greve
at respect. Speed is not really a concern for me, but potential data corruption is. I just read something about someone having had issues with an ATA DVD drive, due to digital line-noise on the regular low cost 40-pin ATA cable. Using an 80-pin one apparently solved it. Makes sense. I will use an Ada

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

2005-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: > 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 haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page fo

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

2005-05-26 Thread 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. A

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

2005-05-25 Thread Tony Shadwick
being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. From the FreeBSD 5.4 AMD-64 hardware compatibility list, I seem to gather the following drive may be a good candidate: Logitec LDR-H443U2 DVD-RAM/-R/+R/-RW/+RW drive Does anyone have any exper

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

2005-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:29:56PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: > One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to > actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best > install in it. > Does anyone have any experience with this particular combin

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

2005-05-25 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Within a few weeks I will be aquiring a new server, and it will most likely feature a 64-bit AMD processor. One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. From the FreeBSD 5.4

Re: cannot mount dvd

2005-05-24 Thread Craig Kleski
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:06 pm, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > For some reason I can't mount a dvd in my dvd drive. It is a normal > data dvd that I burned using k3b. This is what happens: > -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount /dvd > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > > I al

cannot mount dvd

2005-05-24 Thread Brian John
Hello, For some reason I can't mount a dvd in my dvd drive. It is a normal data dvd that I burned using k3b. This is what happens: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument I also try this: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: In

Problem burning DVD using growisofs under 5.4-RELEASE.

2005-05-17 Thread Ray Newman
%uname -a FreeBSD fred.local 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Mon May 16 18:48:24 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 %dmesg (part) ad0: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: DVDR at ata0-slave UDMA33 cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: Remo

Re: scanner software, dvd software, Gnome sound problem (was:Newbie Questions)

2005-05-17 Thread Bob Johnson
Joseph Borg wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for the info :) [...] I use dvd+rw-tools (which is not limited to dvd+rw devices, that's just how it started life): /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools - I've installed this tool. Which binary in particular should I use (e.g. to copy a directory to a

RE: scanner software, dvd software, Gnome sound problem (was: Newbie Questions)

2005-05-17 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi Bob, Thanks for the info :) I've never used it, but the standard answer seems to be SANE: /usr/ports/graphics/xsane /usr/ports/graphics/sane-frontends - I've installed it; now I'll try and figure out how to use it. Shouldn't be a problem I guess. > - Secondly, I'

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