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I'm not subscribed to this list; but I read that Matthew Dillon has ported the dvd+rw tools to FreeBSD. I just compiled and installed the application; but I can't burn to a DVD+RW on a Sony DRU-500A. command: growisofs -Z /dev/acd0c -rl ./testfile result: ":-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0c: Inappropriate ioctl for device" The DVD+RW website: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/ which is for Linux, says that you have to use scsi emulation with ide burners. Is...

...incorporated the patches into his release: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/ http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/ (version 5.8.4.4.4) These tools support DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW format dvd burners, including the popular Sony 500A (which I just bought myself, hence the port). It should work on a wider variety of burners then the half-broken GNU dvdrecord tools work on (the GNU dvdrecord is a hacked up version of the original cdrecord). Andy's tool set is based around his growisofs program which fe...

Hi there. I am unsuccessfully trying to write a data DVD on FreeBSD 4.8. The writer is a Sony DVD RW DRU-500A on IDE. I'm using the atapicam driver. The media is a Sony DVD+RW which arrived with the writer. Both with cdrecord ProDVD (from the ports or otherwise) and dvdrtools I get a general SCSI retryable error message, when trying to write a data track or blank a DVD. I have no problems writing C...