BURNCD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual BURNCD(8)NAMEburncd — control the ATAPI CD-R/RW driver
SYNOPSISburncd [-deFlmnpqtv] [-f device] [-s speed] [command] [command file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The burncd utility is used to burn CD-R/RW media using the ATAPI cd
driver.
Available options and operands:
-d burn the CD-R/RW in DAO (disk at once) mode.
-e eject the medium when done.
-f device set the device to use for the burning process.
-F force operation regardless of warnings.
-l read a list of image files from filename.
-m close disk in multisession mode (otherwise disk is closed
as singlesession).
-n do not write gaps between data tracks in DAO mode.
-p use preemphasis on audio tracks.
-q quiet, do not print progress messages.
-s speed set the speed of the burner device. Defaults to 4. Spec‐
ify “max” to use the drive's fastest speed.
-t test write, do not actually write on the media.
-v verbose, print extra progress messages.
command may be one of:
msinfo Show the first LBA of the last track on the media and the
next writeable address on the media for use with the
mkisofs(8)'s (ports/sysutils/cdrtools) -C switch when
adding additional data to ISO file systems with extra ses‐
sions.
blank Blank a CD-RW medium. This uses the fast blanking method,
so data are not physically overwritten, only those areas
that make the media appear blank for further usage are
erased.
eject Eject the medium when done. This is equivalent to the -e
option.
erase Erase a CD-RW medium. This erases the entire media. Can
take up to 1 hour to finish.
format {dvd+rw | dvd-rw}
Formats a DVD+RW or DVD-RW media to the default max size
and 2048 byte blocks. This operation can take a long time
to finish. Progress reporting is done during the process.
fixate Fixate the medium so that the TOC is generated and the
media can be used in an ordinary CD drive. The driver
defaults to creating singlesession media (see -m option).
Ignored in DAO mode (see -d option).
raw | audio Set the write mode to produce audio (raw mode) tracks for
the following images on the command line.
data | mode1 Set the write mode to produce data (mode1) tracks for the
following image files on the command line.
mode2 Set the write mode to produce data (mode2) tracks for the
following image files on the command line.
XAmode1 Set the write mode to produce data (XAmode1) tracks for the
following image files on the command line.
XAmode2 Set the write mode to produce data (XAmode2) tracks for the
following image files on the command line.
vcd Set the write mode to produce VCD/SVCD tracks for the fol‐
lowing image files on the command line. This automatically
sets DAO (-d) and “no gaps” (-n) modes.
dvdrw Set the write mode to write a DVD+RW from the following
image. DVDs only have one track.
file All other arguments are treated as filenames of images to
write to the media, or in case the -l option is used as
files containing lists of images.
Files whose length are not a multiple of the current media blocksize are
quietly zero padded to fit the blocksize requirement. The conventional
filename - refers to stdin, and can only be used once.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of burncd:
BURNCD_SPEED The write speed to use if one is not specified with the -s
flag.
CDROM The CD device to use if one is not specified with the -f
flag.
FILES
/dev/acd0 The default device, if not overridden by the CDROM environment
variable or the -f option.
EXAMPLES
The typical usage for burning a data CD-R:
burncd-f /dev/acd0 data file1 fixate
The typical usage for burning an audio CD-R:
burncd-f /dev/acd0 audio file1 file2 file3 fixate
The typical usage for burning an audio CD-R in DAO mode:
burncd-f /dev/acd0 -d audio file1 file2 file3
The typical usage for burning a mixed mode CD-R:
burncd-f /dev/acd0 data file1 audio file2 file3 fixate
The typical usage for burning from a compressed image file on stdin:
gunzip -c file.iso.gz | burncd-f /dev/acd0 data - fixate
In the examples above, the files burned to data CD-Rs are assumed to be
ISO9660 file systems. mkisofs(8), available in the FreeBSD Ports Collec‐
tion, as part of the sysutils/cdrtools port, is commonly used to create
ISO9660 file system images from a given directory tree.
HISTORY
The burncd utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
The burncd utility and this manpage was contributed by Søren Schmidt,
Denmark ⟨sos@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BUGS
Probably, please report when found.
BSD December 21, 2009 BSD
