DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. TIA, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:47:09AM -0700, cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? The hardware notes for 4.8 mention chip sets that are supported but it's not always listed on the specs for the cards :-) Thanks, Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would assume that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right now and will continue to be the best. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``I don't make jokes, I just watch the Government and report the facts...'' Will Rogers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. Is this the dual Adaptec card that has both USB and Firewire? I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. That's good to hear. I know that SIIG cards are easy to find. Thanks! Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. Is this the dual Adaptec card that has both USB and Firewire? This is the vanilla firewire only card. I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. That's good to hear. I know that SIIG cards are easy to find. Yup. CompUSA generally has them (there's been a thread on the local Linux mailing list with ``hide your wallets'' as the subject -- we're getting our first Fry's store here shortly :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up. -- Pastor Martin Niemoller ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote: cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would assume that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right now and will continue to be the best. I have one too! It's great. You can write +RW with burncd, -R and -RW with dvdrecord (which I may someday submit a port for; it needs some patches to install) and +R with... well... why would you use +R anyway? :-) You can also write CD-R and CD-RW w/cdrecord. And if you want video DVDs, encode the MPEG yourself, and there's a program that comes with dvdrecord to generate the layout. So get the internal IDE DRU500A, and you won't regret it! -- Josh -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
