I need to use a DVD burner on solaris 8 . Can anybody advice a good
and moderate price vendor with good speed .

I dont know how good price is compared with others, but the only DVD burner
I have been able to make work consistantly under Unix is the HP DVD200i. I
haven't tried it under Solaris yet, but have it working good under Linux.
Does Solaris have built in support for DVD burning? Otherwise what software
will you be using? Would like to try myself also.

K

"ehab" <hpy_azizy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I need to use a DVD burner on solaris 8 . Can anybody advice a good
> and moderate price vendor with good speed .

It's my understanding that Solaris does not support writing to DVD.
We were looking at this as a backup solution, and haven't been able to
find anything on it.

"nobody" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<ES_8b.3306$Mt2.3276@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> I dont know how good price is compared with others, but the only DVD burner
> I have been able to make work consistantly under Unix is the HP DVD200i. I
> haven't tried it under Solaris yet, but have it working good under Linux.
> Does Solaris have built in support for DVD burning? Otherwise what software
> will you be using? Would like to try myself also.
>
> K
>
> "ehab" <hpy_azizy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:b4f59294.0309130140.7ca7db4e@posting.google.c om...
> > I need to use a DVD burner on solaris 8 . Can anybody advice a good
> > and moderate price vendor with good speed .

On 15 Sep 2003, frogswallow wrote:

Please don't top post.

> It's my understanding that Solaris does not support writing to DVD.

You understand wrong, as I'm sure Jörg Schilling will be happy
to point out.

> We were looking at this as a backup solution, and haven't been able to
> find anything on it.

Jörg's DVD pro (or something like that) apparently does the job.

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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> > It's my understanding that Solaris does not support writing to DVD.
>
> You understand wrong, as I'm sure Jörg Schilling will be happy
> to point out.
>
> > We were looking at this as a backup solution, and haven't been able to
> > find anything on it.
>
> Jörg's DVD pro (or something like that) apparently does the job.

Yeah, but the support isn't from Solaris, it's from add-on
software. Or to put it another way, Solaris supports Firewire too,
just the tricky matter of needing some software to talk to any device
other than one particular webcam.

Chris
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On 15 Sep 2003, Chris Morgan wrote:

> Yeah, but the support isn't from Solaris, it's from add-on
> software. Or to put it another way, Solaris supports Firewire too,
> just the tricky matter of needing some software to talk to any device
> other than one particular webcam.

You're correct - but that's like saying Windoze 2000 doesn't
support writing Word files, because that functionality comes
from add-on software (i.e., M$ Office).

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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On 15 Sep 2003, Chris Morgan wrote:
>
> > Yeah, but the support isn't from Solaris, it's from add-on
> > software. Or to put it another way, Solaris supports Firewire too,
> > just the tricky matter of needing some software to talk to any device
> > other than one particular webcam.
>
> You're correct - but that's like saying Windoze 2000 doesn't
> support writing Word files, because that functionality comes
> from add-on software (i.e., M$ Office).

Word is still clearly an application, not part of the OS even by M$
standards. Disc burning is less clear, because for cd-roms, Sun has
started to provide the requisite software as part of Solaris, but it
doesn't do that for dvd-rom.

So, Solaris doesn't support burning dvd-rom to the extent that it
supports burning cd-rom, however it is possible with add-in software.

Chris
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"Rich Teer" <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0309151425270.5851-100000@zaphod...
| On 15 Sep 2003, Chris Morgan wrote:
|
| > Yeah, but the support isn't from Solaris, it's from add-on
| > software. Or to put it another way, Solaris supports Firewire too,
| > just the tricky matter of needing some software to talk to any device
| > other than one particular webcam.
|
| You're correct - but that's like saying Windoze 2000 doesn't
| support writing Word files, because that functionality comes
| from add-on software (i.e., M$ Office).
|
Bad analogy. Both Win2K and Solaris provide basic SCSI support in the kernel.
Neither provide MMC burning capabilities in the kernel, it is provided by
applications that send SCSI commands through the kernel to the hardware.

In article <867k4adklp.fsf@elrond.bloomberg.com>,
Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> writes:
> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
>
>> > It's my understanding that Solaris does not support writing to DVD.
>>
>> You understand wrong, as I'm sure Jörg Schilling will be happy
>> to point out.
>>
>> > We were looking at this as a backup solution, and haven't been able to
>> > find anything on it.
>>
>> Jörg's DVD pro (or something like that) apparently does the job.
>
> Yeah, but the support isn't from Solaris, it's from add-on
> software. Or to put it another way, Solaris supports Firewire too,
> just the tricky matter of needing some software to talk to any device
> other than one particular webcam.

Just for the record - more than just Sun's webcam will work. An ADS Pyro
(don't know if they're still available) 1394 works just fine, and costs
a lot less. It may have less features; I don't know about that
(/usr/demo/1394/dcam1394_demo implies a bunch of features are possible
that it doesn't have - stuff like iris, focus, zoom, pan, tilt, so you
have no control over depth of field or magnification, and the control
of focus and where it's pointed is strictly manual).

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The original message was talking about names of vendors ? Did any body
knows well about a model performance of DVD unit to tell me it the
best you should beleive me ?