From: "David Green" <david@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: [OSX/SYSADMIN] Command lines for burning CD / DVD under OSX
   Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:58:56 -0400

Hey Greg,

This is great.  This will also be good to burn a bunch of CD's at the same
time on the farm :)

Thanks for the tip!

David

On 22 May 2006 19:50:13 -0000, Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> wrote:
>
> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Here are some useful commands for burning DVDs/CDs from the OSX command
> line.
>
> To burn a DVD (I just made one today), I don't think one could ask for
> clearer syntax:
>
>          drutil burn /var/tmp/foo.iso      # Burns an ISO image to DVD
>
> You can also open and close the CD tray from the OSX command line
> with that same tool:
>
>          drutil eject            # Eject the CD
>          drutil tray close       # Close the CD tray
>
> As nice as the Finder GUI is at burning CDs/DVDs, I prefer the command
> line
> because it's just more predictable and easier to automate.
>
> Also, my Finder often crashes/hangs with the spinning beachball 'o death
> when trying to work with DVDs (Tiger 10.4.6, dual G5 with DVD R/W).
> I don't get these problems from the command line.
>