What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

[LoN]Kamikaze LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de
Sat Nov 17 00:47:53 PST 2007


David J Brooks wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote:
>> 	I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to  add in the
>> 	FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM  burners to work.  Ubuntu
>> 	installed ny 2005 burner automagically.  Nothing like that for
>> 	FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for
>> 	"udf" and "cd9660"?
>>
>> 	This is the old and current fstable:
>>
>>
>> # DVD drive (top)
>> /dev/acd0               /media/cdroms/0 udf     ro,noauto       0       0
>> # CD-burner (bottom)
>> /dev/acd1               /media/cdroms/1 cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> 
> cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want to make 
> it rw rather than ro.

As far as I know it's not possible to write a CD/DVD by copying stuff to the
mount. cd9660 are always read-only. CD/DVD burning always goes right through
the device /dev/acd0 or the CAM interface /dev/cd0.


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