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Update the DVD-RAM section a bit. This avoids the usage of "you", "we"

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and things like that, which is consistent with the rest of the documention.

Also remove a paragraph that mentioned that the upcoming commands should be
executed as root, since the prompt should imply that already (like the rest
of the handbook has as well).
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Remko Lodder 2006-05-28 18:33:25 +00:00
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<title>Configuration</title>
<para>DVD-RAM writers come with either SCSI or ATAPI
interface. You have to enable DMA access for ATAPI devices,
this can be done in adding the following line to the
interface. DMA access for ATAPI devices have to be enabled,
this can be done by adding the following line to the
<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> file:</para>
<programlisting>hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"</programlisting>
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<sect3>
<title>Preparing the Medium</title>
<para>As previously said in this chapter introduction, a
<para>As previously mentioned in the chapter introduction, a
DVD-RAM can be seen as a removable hard drive. As any other
hard drive the DVD-RAM must be <quote>prepared</quote>
before the first use. In our example, we will use the whole
disk space with a standard UFS2 file system.</para>
<para>As <username>root</username> type the following
commands with the DVD-RAM in:</para>
before the first use. In the example, the whole
disk space will be used with a standard UFS2 file system:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/zero of=<replaceable>/dev/acd0</replaceable> count=2</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>disklabel -Bw <replaceable>acd0</replaceable></userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>newfs <replaceable>/dev/acd0</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>The DVD device, <devicename>acd0</devicename>, must be
changed according to your configuration.</para>
changed according to the configuration.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Using the Medium</title>
<para>Once you have performed the previous operations on your
DVD-RAM, you can mount it as a normal hard drive:</para>
<para>Once the previous opereations have been performed on the
DVD-RAM, it can be mounted as a normal hard drive:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount <replaceable>/dev/acd0</replaceable> <replaceable>/mnt</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Then you will be able to read and write on it.</para>
<para>After this the DVD-RAM will be both readable and writeable.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>