Hi, Thanks to all who sent advice. It looks as though there are a few options for hardware and most everyone uses cdrw which burns DVDs with later versions of Solaris. I haven't had a chance to check out the different recommended links yet, but I'm including them so that people can explore. I got a lot of good advice from a lot of people, so thanks to David Foster Rich Teer Daniel Musa Williams Nick Howells mdkz57@ukgateway.net and Mike McShane Rich and Mike suggested using an IDE DVD burner (Mike suggested LG DVD Model # GSA-4163BK) and then using mkisofs and cdrw which comes with Solaris. ----------------------------- David recommends Pioneer A08 with a IDE/SCSI converter and has written some notes describing in pretty good detail the entire procedure. Here is the link that he sends with his response: General Reference: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ProDVD He recommends the following hardware: Pioneer A05 DVD-R/DVD-RW ATAPI Internal -- or -- Plextor PX-708A Internal ATAPI ------------------------------ Nick suggests XCDROAST, available via CSW at blastwave.org ------------------------------- Musa recommends the following link: http://www.unixhub.com/docs/misc/DVD.html --------------------------------- and finally, mdkz57@ukgateway.net writes: I have a Sun Blade 100, but with Solaris 9/04 installed with a cdrw command that supports DVD's. Also attached is an Addonics 4-port USB 2.0 PCI card, to which I attach a Pioneer DVR-107 DVD burner (not dual-layer) fitted in a cheap USB 2.0/Firewire enclosure. Works fine in Solaris - lets me burn bootable DVD's with flash images embedded in them etc. The solution lets me move the burner from the Blade 100, to my PowerBook, and to my wife's Dell laptop. ------------------------------------ On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Helen Petropoulos wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone found an easy way to burn data DVDs (backups, etc). Any > recommendations on hardware/software? I have a SunBlade 150 running > Solaris 8. > > Thanks, > > Helen - University of Washington > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Dec 8 17:50:00 2005
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