DVD-R/W In Unix? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 7, 2002 @07:33AM from the next-generation-CDR dept.

Vilorman asks: "So has anyone been successful at writing DVD's in Unix? At work, we're primarily a Solaris shop and we just got an IDE CD-RW working but it's a little small. We need to archive a four gig filesystem and DVD sounds like the way to go. I do have a few concerns: how well does Solaris or Linux supoort the DVD media; and what type of drive works best under either OS (IDE, SCSI, Firewire, etc)? I've found IDE and FireWire drives but SCSI DVR-R/W still seems to be a little scarce. One would assume (from looking at the code) that Schilly's CD-Record and mkisofs would get the job done with a DVD, right?"

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The new iMac by TTop · 2002-01-07 07:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic

The new iMac will do it, and it's running a BSD-derived Unix. For that matter, it makes it easy. Without all the mkisofs stuff.

Apple just seems to be getting cooler all the time, I never owned a Mac until OSX tempted me into an iBook.