cdrecord web site disappeared (was: Re: cdrecord doesn't appear to support high speed media (4x-12x))

2005-06-05 Thread Ambrose Li
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:54:27PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Sunday 05 June 2005 10:40 pm, Rob Bogus wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: Under FreeBSD ports, the description for cdrecord gives this web site:

Re: Linux kernel 2.6.x Raw device support

2005-05-21 Thread Ambrose Li
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:16:46AM -0400, James Finnall wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 05:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for curiosity: when did this raw device thingee start to work ? Is it a spinoff from udf-tools ? How official did it become inbetween ? I'm still using kernel 2.4

Re: blank=all only works in isolation

2004-10-21 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:08:06AM -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: If you found a bug in Linux which causes a panic I would be amazed if it doesn't get fixed. If you found an obscure feature which doesn't work, I can believe that without effort. Can you clarify? Yes. After the kernel panicked for a

Re: blank=all only works in isolation

2004-10-20 Thread Ambrose Li
I'd disagree about its validity. Blanking a CDRW disc before writing sounded reasonable enough to me. I always thought that it didn't work because Linux was buggy. (About my Linux was buggy comment: I started noticing this after mounting HFS CDROM's started causing kernel panics, and afterwards

Re: Burning an hfs filesystem without mkisofs

2004-08-23 Thread Ambrose Li
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Andy Polyakov wrote: Does the fact that you pose this question mean that hfsutils do not generate partition table? Once again, this kind of goes beyond the scope of discussions on this list. I mean hfsutils maintainer is probably more appropriate

Re: Linux 2.6.8.1 requires changes to cdrecord (and probably every other CD/DVD writing app)

2004-08-16 Thread Ambrose Li
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:13:23AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Linux(iirc since 2.2) supports a finer grained permission model than switching UID, POSIX capabilities[1]. Instead of switching to/from root bracketing each SCSI command you'd simply retain the necessary capability,

Re: cdrecord problems with TDK 440n DVD+/-rw

2004-07-18 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, when Joerg says volume management, he does NOT refer to LVM/RAID stuff; he means automounters and things like that. (And my untrained eyes don't see anything wrong with the ps output. But you don't want to trust me here.) On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Dan wrote: On Sat,

Re: 100% system CPU usage with cdrecord

2004-07-02 Thread Ambrose Li
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:15:31PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Ambrose Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] But note that if you use ide-scsi on 2.4, don't try to create HFS/ISO9660 hybrid disks. Otherwise your computer will lock up when you mount your disk to verify it. [...] I would not believe

Re: 100% system CPU usage with cdrecord

2004-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:21:24PM -0400, Rob Bogus mail account wrote: I *strongly* suggest using ide-scsi with 2.4 kernels. You want to boot with something like hdc=ide-scsi I believe, that what I use for all my working 2.4 systems. The device will probably be 0.0.0, but do check by looking

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-30 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:05:41PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: I just did run a test that verifies that the 708 in fact returns 36 bytes. So the problem is definitely caused by a Linux driver bug. I tend to believe that growisofs just does not check the SCSI status byte and for this

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch to make cdrtools 2.01a25 Linux compatible

2004-01-27 Thread Ambrose Li
I have a very high respect for Joerg. But please let me comment a little on this. Back in the former times (I started using GNU/Linux back when the only distros were SLS and Slackware), apps assumed that the kernel header files are in a linux directory in the system include path (the

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch to make cdrtools 2.01a25 Linux compatible

2004-01-27 Thread Ambrose Li
Yes, myself is to blame for not checking the updated FHS. But why would anyone upgrading from libc5 to libc6 suspect that a change in the FHS should affect the upgrade (esp. if the libc6 docs do not refer to the FHS)? So my main complaint will be that I'll need to dig around per se, in unknown

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch to make cdrtools 2.01a25 Linux compatible

2004-01-27 Thread Ambrose Li
I have a very high respect for Joerg. But please let me comment a little on this. Back in the former times (I started using GNU/Linux back when the only distros were SLS and Slackware), apps assumed that the kernel header files are in a linux directory in the system include path (the

Re: cdrecord-ProDVD and Liteon DVDRW LDW-451S?

2004-01-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:41:55PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: I tried reporting this, as Liteon actually has a problem report form on their website. Unfortunately it didn't work. I only understood the word 'Microsoft' from the error message, since my Chinese isn't very good. do you have

Re: cdrecord-ProDVD and Liteon DVDRW LDW-451S?

2004-01-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:41:55PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: I tried reporting this, as Liteon actually has a problem report form on their website. Unfortunately it didn't work. I only understood the word 'Microsoft' from the error message, since my Chinese isn't very good. do you have

Re: ide-scsi and 2.4 kernels

2003-12-13 Thread Ambrose Li
mode would use DMA instead of PIO. Curiousity only, the ide-scsi is working fine. -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ide-scsi and 2.4 kernels

2003-12-13 Thread Ambrose Li
the same problem with both my home and work computers. And both computers worked perfectly (with ide-scsi) when I used a 2.2 kernel. After upgrading to 2.4, at first I thought my computer broke down. -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ide-scsi and 2.4 kernels

2003-12-13 Thread Ambrose Li
mode would use DMA instead of PIO. Curiousity only, the ide-scsi is working fine. -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/

Re: ide-scsi and 2.4 kernels

2003-12-13 Thread Ambrose Li
the same problem with both my home and work computers. And both computers worked perfectly (with ide-scsi) when I used a 2.2 kernel. After upgrading to 2.4, at first I thought my computer broke down. -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/

cdrecord -scanbus strangeness?

2003-11-28 Thread Ambrose Li
Hello, sorry if this is a stupid question. I just downloaded cdrtools-2.01a20pre2 to try out its ATAPI support. (Linux 2.4's ide-scsi seems to be very broken.) I noticed the following: - cdrecord dev=help says bus scanning is supported for the ATAPI transport; - However, if I run cdrecord

cdrecord -scanbus strangeness?

2003-11-28 Thread Ambrose Li
Hello, sorry if this is a stupid question. I just downloaded cdrtools-2.01a20pre2 to try out its ATAPI support. (Linux 2.4's ide-scsi seems to be very broken.) I noticed the following: - cdrecord dev=help says bus scanning is supported for the ATAPI transport; - However, if I run cdrecord

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-14 Thread Ambrose Li
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:33:12AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If we're talking about ISO9660 layout prepared by mkisofs, then those more blocks are known to be insignificant and you can as well checksum every file instead of the whole filesystem image, can't you? No. Checksumming

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
think for the user, having to look there is a bit too much. -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-30 Thread Ambrose Li
, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-29 Thread Ambrose Li
it is not unreasonable to say that the docs *are* unclear. I did submit a bug report; the man page should mention this in the future... Best regards, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

[SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-23 Thread Ambrose Li
, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-22 Thread Ambrose Li
, a previously unknown bug, or it is something that I did wrong. The cdrtools version I have used are 2.00.3 (latest stable version) and 2.01a16 (latest testing version). Best regards, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL