Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, it seemed like a good idea to sort of follow-up on my previous message, so here it is. Unlikely what Andy seemed to think, I really wasn't asking this list for kenrel support. I was actually trying to find out if anyone else was having the same problem. That problem is under ide-cd

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
The first drive identified itself as Generic 2.15 and the second drive identified itself as Optorite DVD RW DD0203 2.11. Might be same OEM, meaning that they might be sharing firmware [and consequently firmware bugs]. It's a djungle out there... I have located a firmware update for the

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.14.4.7.4.tar.gz

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterday I bought a DVD+R media (brand Creation). It burned and plays without any errors or warnings. Does it mean DVD+R are less problematic than DVD-R in combi burners? This statement doesn't hold *universally* true, but DVD+ is less problematic in

Re: patch: cdrecord: realtime priority

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] --SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline This is a patch that allows to set a different realtime priority for cdrecord. Is usefull if other realtime processes are running. Not needed.sorry Jörg --

Re: cdrtools-2.01a20 ready

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 13 17:47:36 2003 I have tried the ProDVD version and I got Alarm Clock... The key in the README is the same as the one I use with /cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a11-i586-pc-linux-gnu This (alpha) binary is not yet one year old so it should work. Do you have a wall clock

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg I haven't used this program for a long time. But I will update my installation and test it tonight. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: cdrtools-2.01a20 ready

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:59:24PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 13 17:47:36 2003 I have tried the ProDVD version and I got Alarm Clock... The key in the README is the same as the one I use with /cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a11-i586-pc-linux-gnu This (alpha) binary

free DVD+RW patch to cdrecord

2003-12-15 Thread Warly
I have improved the DVD patch to cdrecord. It should be able to format and burn DVD+RW media (altough I have only one DVD+RW blank media to test, and surely have done incomplete tests). http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/index.html You can find binary packages either in the

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as high load all the time. The comment is

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as high load all the time. The

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but

Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I am just trying to burn a DVD with: #!/bin/tcsh setenv SIZE `mkisofs -dvd-video -q -print-size -V $1 $2` setenv CDR_SECURITY 8:dvd... mkisofs -dvd-video -V $1 $2 | cdrecord-prodvd -v dev=2,0,0 fs=64m speed=4 -eject -dao tsize={$SIZE}s - And I got: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20

Re: Problems with mkisofs and file size (solved)

2003-12-15 Thread Svante Signell
Problem solved: Finally I saw the difference between growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=file.large and growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J file.large DVD+RW-tools works great on my HP 300n DVD+R/RW at least with DVD+R with speeds up to 4x. On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:20, Svante Signell wrote: When trying to burn a

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:54:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Track 01: data 4398 MB Total size: 5051 MB (500:30.04) = 2252253 sectors Lout start: 5052 MB (500:32/03) = 2252253 sectors A du -m -s of the dir gives 4399 I really try to burn

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am just trying to burn a DVD with: #!/bin/tcsh setenv SIZE `mkisofs -dvd-video -q -print-size -V $1 $2` setenv CDR_SECURITY 8:dvd... mkisofs -dvd-video -V $1 $2 | cdrecord-prodvd -v dev=2,0,0 fs=64m speed=4 -eject -dao tsize={$SIZE}s - And I got:

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Hello Jörg, I got cdrecord-ProDVD to run after a bit. It burned the DVD+RW and it is mounted and readable. No errors at present. The ouput from cdrecord-ProDVD

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, I finally found a DVD-ROM to test on, though I'm not 100% sure if it's free of CSS (mplayer doesn't seem to indicate it's using CSS, so that's a good sign). The read speed for the disk ends up topping out at around 3MB/s with the CPU using about 80%-90% CPU time in kernel space. A test

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg The drive appears to back to functioning once again. I had to reboot several times. I was able to do what I wanted to do though and that was to burn the

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, I finally found a DVD-ROM to test on, though I'm not 100% sure if it's free of CSS (mplayer doesn't seem to indicate it's using CSS, so that's a good sign). The read speed for the disk ends up topping out at around 3MB/s with the CPU using about 80%-90% CPU time in kernel space. A test

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.14.4.7.4.tar.gz

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
I assumed that hardware / software does automaticly set the speed to a reasonable value. And you assumed correctly. If media is *properly* supported by firmware you have *all* rights to expect that firmware automatically picks reasonable speed for it. And now after playing around a long time

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.14.4.7.4.tar.gz

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pictures growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0=fotos-backup.iso :-( /dev/scd0: unsupported MMC profile 10 now it says doesn't look like recordable media to me. I like your program, but a more user friendly error message would be usefull. Not every linux user is a

Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, it seemed like a good idea to sort of follow-up on my previous message, so here it is. Unlikely what Andy seemed to think, I really wasn't asking this list for kenrel support. I was actually trying to find out if anyone else was having the same problem. That problem is under ide-cd

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
The first drive identified itself as Generic 2.15 and the second drive identified itself as Optorite DVD RW DD0203 2.11. Might be same OEM, meaning that they might be sharing firmware [and consequently firmware bugs]. It's a djungle out there... I have located a firmware update for the

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Kuwanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it seemed like a good idea to sort of follow-up on my previous message, so here it is. Unlikely what Andy seemed to think, I really wasn't asking this list for kenrel support. I was actually trying to find out if anyone else was having the same problem.

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.14.4.7.4.tar.gz

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterday I bought a DVD+R media (brand Creation). It burned and plays without any errors or warnings. Does it mean DVD+R are less problematic than DVD-R in combi burners? This statement doesn't hold *universally* true, but DVD+ is less problematic in

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
X-Original-To: cdwrite@other.debian.org I just purchased a new dual format DVD burner. It is an Utmost Technology unit. As I understand this drive is distributed by several manufacturers. I purchased the first unit on Friday and I was not able to get it to work correctly so I returned it as

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 05:53, Andy Polyakov wrote: These errors are typical of the burned DVD+RW from other drives as well. The media can be erased and then reused. I have confirmed that the media is usable in another drive. So it can't read media recorded in *other* recorders

Re: cdrtools-2.01a20 ready

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 13 17:47:36 2003 I have tried the ProDVD version and I got Alarm Clock... The key in the README is the same as the one I use with /cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a11-i586-pc-linux-gnu This (alpha) binary is not yet one year old so it should work. Do you have a wall clock

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg I haven't used this program for a long time. But I will update my installation and test it tonight. Thanks, James

Re: patch: cdrecord: realtime priority

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] --SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline This is a patch that allows to set a different realtime priority for cdrecord. Is usefull if other realtime processes are running. Not needed.sorry Jörg --

Re: cdrtools-2.01a20 ready

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:59:24PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 13 17:47:36 2003 I have tried the ProDVD version and I got Alarm Clock... The key in the README is the same as the one I use with /cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a11-i586-pc-linux-gnu This (alpha) binary

free DVD+RW patch to cdrecord

2003-12-15 Thread Warly
I have improved the DVD patch to cdrecord. It should be able to format and burn DVD+RW media (altough I have only one DVD+RW blank media to test, and surely have done incomplete tests). http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/index.html You can find binary packages either in the

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Unlikely what Andy seemed to think, I really wasn't asking this list for kenrel support. Don't take things which are said in public personally. At least not what I say:-) What I've said was pretty common commentary, in certain degree addressing rest of the croud and merely denoting what

New ProDVD key for Linux needed

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi all, as the most recent Linux binary for cdrecord-ProDVD has been compiled on a machine with is i686-pc-linux instead of i586-pc-linux, a new key is needed. Please fetch it from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as high load all the time. The comment is

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as high load all the time. The comment

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Andy Polyakov
Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but as high load all the time. The

Re: New ProDVD key for Linux needed

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi all, as the most recent Linux binary for cdrecord-ProDVD has been compiled on a machine with is i686-pc-linux instead of i586-pc-linux, a new key is needed. Please fetch it from:

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like you dont have DMA :-( Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 0.4x. Requestor's computer (which was described in originating post) should perform over 2x without DMA. Lack of DMA doesn't manifest itself as 1 to 2 CPU spikes per second, but

Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I am just trying to burn a DVD with: #!/bin/tcsh setenv SIZE `mkisofs -dvd-video -q -print-size -V $1 $2` setenv CDR_SECURITY 8:dvd... mkisofs -dvd-video -V $1 $2 | cdrecord-prodvd -v dev=2,0,0 fs=64m speed=4 -eject -dao tsize={$SIZE}s - And I got: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20

Re: Problems with mkisofs and file size (solved)

2003-12-15 Thread Svante Signell
Problem solved: Finally I saw the difference between growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=file.large and growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J file.large DVD+RW-tools works great on my HP 300n DVD+R/RW at least with DVD+R with speeds up to 4x. On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:20, Svante Signell wrote: When trying to burn a

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:54:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Track 01: data 4398 MB Total size: 5051 MB (500:30.04) = 2252253 sectors Lout start: 5052 MB (500:32/03) = 2252253 sectors A du -m -s of the dir gives 4399 I really try to burn

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Jörg, I don't care about silly arguments about who's right, but I have to agree 100% with Andy's assessment of the situation. He gave sound reason for his conclusion. I am still very interested in your detailed technical explanation on why a fast CPU with 0% load only manages a 0.4x DVD burn speed

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:25:15AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Shure? I bought 200 no name with case and I have already burn about 50 without problem... I have some other I could try with... Well, with a Princo DVD-RW it start to burn ;-) So unfortunately for me you should have right: all

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 05:53, Andy Polyakov wrote: One thing comes to mind. It's possible that Nero applies OPC, Optimal Power Calibration procedure even to DVD+RW, which might do the trick. Note that OPC is defined in DVD-dash context only, but there is a chance that some firmwares

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am just trying to burn a DVD with: #!/bin/tcsh setenv SIZE `mkisofs -dvd-video -q -print-size -V $1 $2` setenv CDR_SECURITY 8:dvd... mkisofs -dvd-video -V $1 $2 | cdrecord-prodvd -v dev=2,0,0 fs=64m speed=4 -eject -dao tsize={$SIZE}s - And I got:

Re: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a20 problem

2003-12-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try a medium that is accepted by the writer. It is known to be a bit specific abut media it likes. Well, I always use the same media??? Shure? What kind of media do you use? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Hello Jörg, I got cdrecord-ProDVD to run after a bit. It burned the DVD+RW and it is mounted and readable. No errors at present. The ouput from cdrecord-ProDVD

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, I finally found a DVD-ROM to test on, though I'm not 100% sure if it's free of CSS (mplayer doesn't seem to indicate it's using CSS, so that's a good sign). The read speed for the disk ends up topping out at around 3MB/s with the CPU using about 80%-90% CPU time in kernel space. A test

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-15 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg The drive appears to back to functioning once again. I had to reboot several times. I was able to do what I wanted to do though and that was to burn the

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-15 Thread Kuwanger
Well, I finally found a DVD-ROM to test on, though I'm not 100% sure if it's free of CSS (mplayer doesn't seem to indicate it's using CSS, so that's a good sign). The read speed for the disk ends up topping out at around 3MB/s with the CPU using about 80%-90% CPU time in kernel space. A test