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]"