How to burn data to a raw CD, and problems therewith.

Information taken from FAQ.

Step 1 of several million in moving "tutorials" from FAQ to Handbook.

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 	details. That is also the place to look for information on writing
 	audio tracks, controlling the speed, and other things.</para>
     </sect2>
+
+    <sect2 id="rawdata-cd">
+      <title>Burning Raw Data CDs</title>
+
+      <para>You can choose to burn a file directly to CD, without
+	creating an ISO 9660 filesystem.  Some people do this for
+	backup purposes.  This runs more quickly than burning a
+	standard CD:</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>burncd -f /dev/acd1c -s 12 data archive.tar.gz fixate</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>In order to retrieve the data burned to such a CD, you
+	  must read data from the raw device node :</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>tar xzvf /dev/acd1c</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>You cannot mount this disk as you would a normal CDROM.
+	  Such a CDROM cannot be read under any operating system
+	  except FreeBSD.  If you want to be able to mount the CD, or
+	  share data with another operating system, you must use
+	  <port>sysutils/mkisofs</port> as described above.</para>
+    </sect2>
   </sect1>
   
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