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

2004-01-30 Thread Len Sorensen
take it you're recommending that I start with CD 1 and leave myself a single 3+GB partition? I think primary 3GB partition was the request.S Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does cdrecord turn burnfree off by default?

2003-11-19 Thread Len Sorensen
also slow their max speed if it is enabled, which may not be what is desired (ie 40x max with burnproof and 48x max without). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does cdrecord turn burnfree off by default?

2003-11-19 Thread Len Sorensen
also slow their max speed if it is enabled, which may not be what is desired (ie 40x max with burnproof and 48x max without). Len Sorensen

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-22 Thread Len Sorensen
haven't tried dvdrecord myself, I just stick to cdrecord-prodvd when I want to play with the DVD-RW. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: growisofs with -b problem

2003-08-20 Thread Len Sorensen
the copyrights that were there, they clearly state what it is based on. What more do you expect them to do? How about using cdrecord-ProDVD? Some people prefer opensource tools for what they do, even if they are not as good. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: dvd+rw-tools update [5.11, Pioneer DVR-x06]

2003-08-05 Thread Len Sorensen
for it in (and probably grumble about the mean programmer that didn't already supply support for it). :) It really does aid in many packaging and installation situations. A spec file only helps a few people. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Potential bug vs. New behaviour re: v1.11/2.00

2003-06-12 Thread Len Sorensen
does not. It clearly says you tried to write a CD-RW at too slow a speed as far as I can tell. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord copyed over recent nero copying

2003-06-12 Thread Len Sorensen
stuff showing working cdrecord] Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how many cds...

2003-04-03 Thread Len Sorensen
, but you generally have no need for any more than the first CD for most installs. It contains the most commenly used stuff. If you need the odd package later, just have it download it by http on the fly. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: cdrecord Yamaha CRW-F1 support?

2003-03-04 Thread Len Sorensen
file.pgm was a 8bit 3744x320 pgm (or lower height if I bothered to check the tattooinfo for the exact height left on the current disc first). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord-ProDVD-2.0.1 ready

2003-02-06 Thread Len Sorensen
, but I has been a while since I looked at it. I will try with a DVD in the drive. Well I just checked, and yep you are right of course. It sees the option now. Yay! So what restrictions are there on when you can use it? Can you do DVD video with it on, or only data or what? Len Sorensen

Re: cdrecord hangs system

2003-01-15 Thread Len Sorensen
on it, and try writing data from it. The hard drives are 68pin lvd and the burned is 50 pin scsi on an adaptec 2940u2w Is scsi disconnect enabled in the scsi bios for the drives (at least the burner)? What speed is the burner? Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CDRECORD Problem on Linux Kernel 2.4.18

2002-12-17 Thread Len Sorensen
though. [details removed] Given it started when you upgraded to redhat 8.0 I would suspect the kernel as most likely cause, and perhaps other system libraries (libc) as slightly possible causes. You could build your own kernel (2.4.20 is out) and see if that fixes it. Len Sorensen

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-28 Thread Len Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: Yes, ATAPI. acer CDRW 2010A (crappy), ECS KSS5A with Athlon XP1800+. SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS735ATA 100 controller As soon as I disable DMA I get the high loads

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-28 Thread Len Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:48:03PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: Haven't tried disabling the HD as well. I was refering to disabling DMA on the burner. Well I can't imagine why yours works an no one elses seems to. But what do I know. I only know what I read about it. Len Sorensen

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-27 Thread Len Sorensen
wrong ;-) With an ATAPI cd burner? Which IDE chipset, which CPU and speed? Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-26 Thread Len Sorensen
, as might hdparm device, by itself. Your method most certainly does not. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools-1.11a40 ready

2002-11-25 Thread Len Sorensen
just has to support it I guess. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Burnfree option

2002-10-29 Thread Len Sorensen
can cause any compatibility problems with picky readers either. Either one would be a good reason to not use it by default. If your machine is fast enough, you don't need it. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: linux graphical frontend for cdrecord?

2002-10-24 Thread Len Sorensen
that requires moving between the keyboard and mouse a lot, is inefficient, which is why I don't run X much, and when I do I stick to a window manager setup to allow keyboard navigation of most things. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: CDRecord-ProDVD

2002-10-24 Thread Len Sorensen
of media, etc. Give us something to work with. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drive recommendation?

2002-10-22 Thread Len Sorensen
expected given I put it in a pentium 100). With DMA on and burn-proof enabled, it burns just fine at full speed. I figured it would take more cpu speed than that to keep up. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Drive recommendation?

2002-10-22 Thread Len Sorensen
if drives have high failure rates, they are being abused. Well unless they were the old 2x and 3x NEC scsi drives in the early 90s (and late 80s), which seemed to last about 3 months in library use (which is rather abusive I guess). :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Usage of very old BASF rw-CD's

2002-10-15 Thread Len Sorensen
as compatible. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Write e2fs to CD

2002-10-09 Thread Len Sorensen
-zxvf /dev/sr2 I prefer readcd (comes with cdrecord). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Write e2fs to CD

2002-10-08 Thread Len Sorensen
or used one of those. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Write e2fs to CD

2002-10-08 Thread Len Sorensen
to mke2fs on, mount as loop device, copy files, unmount, write to cd. Not a good plan. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing images in substrate

2002-06-27 Thread Len Sorensen
the ECC data as well, if you want to be able to do an image. What Yamaha did was neat, but not very practical I suspect. I certainly don't imagine it doable in general on generic hardware. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: why can't I burn 2 cds at once any more?

2002-06-18 Thread Len Sorensen
into 2.4.18 by downloading it from the maintainers site (easy to find using google). Since you use an aic7xxx, it might affect things too. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: With all this DVD talk..

2002-06-18 Thread Len Sorensen
the new program tartest that comes with the latest star alpha. Also check the testscripts anf archives from: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ Hmm, interesting. May be worth considering. apt-get install star. All done. :) I wonder if 1.5a02 is fairly up to date. Len

Re: CD-WRITE: DVD-RAM - cdrecord: Cannot write CD's = 100 minutes.

2002-05-17 Thread Len Sorensen
it to be a very large floppy. Also I have no idea if any system can boot from it. Maybe if you partition it, and then create a filesystem on a bootable partition, you could boot it. Maybe not. given the geometry is so different. Basically, why use cdrecord, when dd works? Len Sorensen

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-16 Thread Len Sorensen
how I would do that yet), I can use it as a block device? That would be neat. I have done that with DVD-RAM drives. Not sure if the DVR-A03 would support that though. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-15 Thread Len Sorensen
drive other than the DVR-A03 around I would try it. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-15 Thread Len Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Markus Plail wrote: Hi Len! * Len Sorensen writes: I expect DVD+RW to die a quick death, or at least don't care if it survives. It hasn't delivered any of what it promised, and offers nothing as far as I can tell that DVD-R(W) doesn't already

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-14 Thread Len Sorensen
alter models write DVD+R as well. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools-1.1a21 ready

2002-05-02 Thread Len Sorensen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:27:30PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 1 18:05:15 2002 From: Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mit, 17 Apr 2002, Anssi Saari wrote: - fprintf(stderr, \nUse %s -help\n); + fprintf(stderr, \nUse %s -help\n,

Re: VIA 686 vs cdrecord = slow!

2002-03-07 Thread Len Sorensen
for doing fast writes, and also makes the system much much faster. Check /proc/ide/hda/settings, and make sure dma is currently on, and make sure the kernel is new enough to support your chipset fully. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Does cdrecord support packet writing ??

2002-02-28 Thread Len Sorensen
format and mount a cd-rw yet. DVD-RAM on the other hand works perfectly with UDF. Perhaps somebody has some paches that add support for CD-RW UDF, but it certainly isn't standard in the kernel yet. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: help

2002-01-04 Thread Len Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:16:40AM -0500, SIS Carlos Williams wrote: Can I do this: # cdrecord dev=1,0 dev=2,0 -dao *.wav to burn on 2 writers at once I doubt it. I sure wouldn't want to implement a multi threaded cd burner program when running two copies will work just fine. Len

Re: ide-scsi question - Sorry

2001-12-11 Thread Len Sorensen
rc.modules or /etc/modules or whatever your distribution has, to force load ide-scsi on boot, then sg and sr_mod should auto detect the drives when needed. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to write SVCD?

2001-11-26 Thread Len Sorensen
silver discs, or get a DVD player that explicitly handles generic media (a 2 laser model). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation on DVD writer scsi commands?

2001-10-30 Thread Len Sorensen
-openDVD or cdrecord-freeDVD? cdrecord-machedvd maybe works? Or dvdrecord :) Hard to come up with names that are different yet indicate what it is. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord and solaris volume manager

2001-10-29 Thread Len Sorensen
that seems to be it. OK, so it's not being overly briliant and doing something very hard. :) Too bad. Maybe someone can write a mail client that reads the quoted part and compares it to other messages and sorts by threads it discovers. Then again maybe not. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: cdrecord and solaris volume manager

2001-10-26 Thread Len Sorensen
. Couldn't you use cdrecord's --eject option instead of eject cdrom? Getting it back in could probably also be done with software. Something like cdrecord -atip, loads the drawer and reads a bit form the disk. There must be tools that just close the cdrom drive drawer. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Pioneer S201 vs A03

2001-10-25 Thread Len Sorensen
the center of the disc. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pioneer S201 vs A03

2001-10-25 Thread Len Sorensen
ide controller for the DVD. Puts less load on the scsi bus too. Not sure. I suspect a native scsi version of the drive must exist, since pioneer intends to support it in their CD/DVD jukebox machines soon, and the jukeboxes are scsi only. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Cdrecord--ProDVD test versions

2001-10-19 Thread Len Sorensen
to the cdrecord home page to a page that just has basic information about cdrecord-ProDVD? It seems many people have looked and failed to find information about it, just the occasional reference to it or rumour about it on the occasional mailing list archive. Len Sorensen OpenGraphics