Re: Does anybody installed DVD Rom on FreeBSD 4.9?
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:15, Carla Neves wrote: > Hi dear FreeBSD users, > I would like to install a DVD R+W on my Proliant Ml330 for backups > purposes. > Before I buy the DVD Rom, I would like to know if someone has done > that before with success for FreeBSD 4.9. > I checked on freebsd sites that there is a SW for FreeBSD 4.9, > called, > used for burning DVDs and it is compatible with several DVD R+W > providers. Anyway, I would like to know if I need something more > besides this SW, like: DVD drivers, Kernel configurations... > > Thanks in advance for your help > > CG > I have used a DVD burner for saving backups for a couple months now and it works fine. The burner I have is a generic Memorex DVD+RW model. There are a couple steps that you will need to go through before being able to burn discs with your drive (at least I had to go through these steps). First you will need to add a line to your kernel conf file and recompile. The line to add is: device atapicam Next you will need to install sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. This will give you some command line dvd authoring tools, the most useful of the bunch is growisofs. The man page for growisofs is good, probably a bit too good for general backups. The basic command you need to run is: growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -R -J path/to/directory_or_file The -R and -J aren't strictly necessary. Also the device, will more than likely not match what dmesg lists for your dvd drive. For me dmesg shows the following for my drive: acd0: DVD-R at ata1-master PIO4 However the atapicam device in your recompiled kernel does some SCSI emulation (or something like that) and the cd0 device is necessary for the growisofs command (of course your drive may be cd1 or cd2 rather than 0 depending on your hardware). One final note. I have not had any luck getting growisofs to work with files over 2GB. Growisofs relies on mkisofs which has been giving me problems with large files. I eventually removed the standard version of mkisofs and replaced it with mkisofs-devel, and that will happily work on files larger than 2GB. Now when I use growisofs it goes through the whole process without any errors, but when I try to read the disc I get errors about the file being too large. If anyone has any suggestions to get around this issue I would be grateful. Hope this helps, Chris signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Does anybody installed DVD Rom on FreeBSD 4.9?
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:15 am, Carla Neves wrote: > Hi dear FreeBSD users, > I would like to install a DVD R+W on my Proliant Ml330 for backups > purposes. > Before I buy the DVD Rom, I would like to know if someone has done > that before with success for FreeBSD 4.9. > I checked on freebsd sites that there is a SW for FreeBSD 4.9, > called, > used for burning DVDs and it is compatible with several DVD R+W > providers. Anyway, I would like to know if I need something more > besides this SW, like: DVD drivers, Kernel configurations... > > Thanks in advance for your help > > CG Assuming you will use an IDE DVD burner, you will need to recompile the kernel with the atapicam device. You can burn DVD's using the port dvd+rw-tools. Regardless of the port's name, it also burns DVD-R/RW. You can get the instructions you need from the FreeBSD Handbook. The relevant pages can be found online at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html I documented my success with certain hardware and media in an email at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1258438+1261486+/usr/local/www/db/ text/2004/freebsd-questions/20040118.freebsd-questions If your DVD burner also burns CD-R/RW, you can use burn CD's using mkisofs and cdrecord. Both of these applications are included in the cdrtools port that can be found at: /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools glabels is an application for creating CD/DVD labels. It has templates for many Avery and Neato label sheets. You can find glabels in the ports at: /usr/ports/deskutils/glabels/ Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Does anybody installed DVD Rom on FreeBSD 4.9?
Hi dear FreeBSD users, I would like to install a DVD R+W on my Proliant Ml330 for backups purposes. Before I buy the DVD Rom, I would like to know if someone has done that before with success for FreeBSD 4.9. I checked on freebsd sites that there is a SW for FreeBSD 4.9, called, used for burning DVDs and it is compatible with several DVD R+W providers. Anyway, I would like to know if I need something more besides this SW, like: DVD drivers, Kernel configurations... Thanks in advance for your help CG ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
