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: 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: 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: dvd+rw-tools update [5.15.4.8.5, FreeBSD 5-current, DVD+R speed, Optorite]

2003-12-24 Thread James Finnall
the latter can only be addressed by user, see http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html for further details (thanks to James Finnall for feedback). For other changes see revision history. Season greetings to everyone. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-27 Thread James Finnall
Hello List, I am rather new to this video DVD type applications. I have been working with DVD+RW for a couple of years for just normal data applications. I burned a udf DVD-R this morning using growisofs, and the end of the burning output is below. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on why

dvd+rw tools error message

2004-01-28 Thread James Finnall
Hello, I upgraded to dvd+rw-tools-5.17 tonight and I seem to have found a new error message I have not seen before. # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video output Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video output | builtin_dd of=/dev/raw/raw1 obs=32k seek=0' :-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Bad file

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-28 Thread James Finnall
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:52, Andy Polyakov wrote: First of all note that 5.17 is strongly recommended update for those who deploy 5.14 through 5.16. It addresses problems with DVD-dash recordings performed with -dvd-compat option, i.e. very kind of recordings you're referring to. I

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-29 Thread James Finnall
On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:52, Joerg Schilling wrote: The cdrecord README clearly states that you _need_ working DMA in order to write DVDs. If you have burnfree ON the drive just dramatically slows down. Jörg This is the only information that I can determine from my system. If you

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-30 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 30 January 2004 02:59, Andy Polyakov wrote: Meaning that you can't reproduce the problem... Well, varying results might be indication of poor media support in firmware. I would still recommend to try -speed=1 option and maybe even stick to it for *this* media brand/batch, just to

Re: cdda2wav -e creates audio.wav

2004-03-16 Thread James Finnall
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 15:06, Thomas Klausner wrote: .. Description: When playing an audio cd via cdda2wav using the command: su root -c cdda2wav -t2 --dev /dev/rcd0d -e You can use the -N option to suppress the default file output. The manpage in my Linux system describes both the -e

Re: AW: Backup format to ISO?

2004-11-17 Thread James Finnall
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 11:29, Hermes, Stefan wrote: Do you know of any program which will accept tar or cpio format as input and generates an ISO-9660 image for burning? I have a large box full of 4GB 4mm DAT tapes which should go on DVD, and they are in tar or cpio format. Currently the

Re: [Dump-users] dump on CD (Linux only)

2005-01-16 Thread James Finnall
Maybe the dates here are just a machine with a real bad time clock, but they are from the year 2001. That was really a long time ago. Like possibly somebody brought up an old server or something? But I received two messages on the list from 27 July 2001 from the same sender. Just thought I

Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-14 Thread James Finnall
Hello all, I just joined the list so I hope this is the correct list for this type of problem. 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: dvd+rw-tools update [5.15.4.8.5, FreeBSD 5-current, DVD+R speed, Optorite]

2003-12-24 Thread James Finnall
the latter can only be addressed by user, see http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html for further details (thanks to James Finnall for feedback). For other changes see revision history. Season greetings to everyone. A.

Re: dvd+rw-tools update [5.15.4.8.5, FreeBSD 5-current, DVD+R speed, Optorite]

2003-12-24 Thread James Finnall
Not sure how else to describe them, except that perhaps they were purchased from CD LabelCorp, in 300 label packages. As far as the age of the labels for storage, I have been using them for about two years now. But one test I ran was to burn a blank CDR without any label and then verified the

Re: CD booting question

2003-12-29 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 29 December 2003 15:15, Rob Bogus wrote: I have been creating bootable (el torrito style) CDs since the capability was added to mkisofs ages ago. However, from time to time I find a system which doesn't know how to boot CD and must boot from floppy. With programs like Linux boot

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-29 Thread James Finnall
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:52, Andy Polyakov wrote: First of all note that 5.17 is strongly recommended update for those who deploy 5.14 through 5.16. It addresses problems with DVD-dash recordings performed with -dvd-compat option, i.e. very kind of recordings you're referring to. I

Re: cdda2wav -e creates audio.wav

2004-03-16 Thread James Finnall
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 15:06, Thomas Klausner wrote: .. Description: When playing an audio cd via cdda2wav using the command: su root -c cdda2wav -t2 --dev /dev/rcd0d -e You can use the -N option to suppress the default file output. The manpage in my Linux system describes both the -e

Re: Self-written DVD+Rs that cannot be read...

2005-02-20 Thread James Finnall
I would highly suggest trying to read the DVD's under another OS. There is a Linux kernel bug regarding reading CD/DVD media related to the read-ahead cache. It attempts to read data before it has been requested to cache it. But on CD/DVD media the data can run out before the media actually

CDRecord proper dev specification w/2.6.x

2005-02-20 Thread James Finnall
Hello, Everytime I use cdrecord under Linux 2.6 kernel and reference the drive by the /dev/devid it responds with the following: Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/sr0' devname: '/dev/sr0' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2

Re: COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR when reading from pipe or stdin

2005-02-20 Thread James Finnall
On Sunday 20 February 2005 21:18, Mitch Davis wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use growisofs to write data to a blanked DVD-RW. If I point growisofs at an image file, everything works properly. But if I pipe in the image file via stdin or a named pipe, the write fails with the message COMMAND

Re: CDRecord proper dev specification w/2.6.x

2005-02-21 Thread James Finnall
On Monday 21 February 2005 05:17, Maik Zumstrull wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: James Finnall wrote: Everytime I use cdrecord under Linux 2.6 kernel and reference the drive by the /dev/devid it responds with the following: Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported

Re: Errors with 8x media, works in other OS

2005-02-27 Thread James Finnall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 09:37, Joerg Schilling wrote: .. I am the author of cdrecord and I definitely know that cdrecord DOES support DVD writing. Jörg Perhaps you can help me with cdrtools-01.01a01 to build it for DVD-R /RW support. An output below is provided that states the

Re: How to identify the DVD device for recording data

2005-05-04 Thread James Finnall
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 22:58, Graham Freeman wrote: I am trying to use growisofs to backup data to DVD-R on my Fedora FC3 IBM ThinkCentre machine, running Gnome. I have successfully used cdrecord with the command mkisofs -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -R -d -allow-leading-dots -l . | cdrecord

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-05-13 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 13 May 2005 14:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would have expected that what was true of CDs would be true with DVDs. So let us assume for now that DVDs are still safe in that aspect. At least no real problems have been reported. (Nevertheless i pad 300 kB) If you are

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-05-13 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 13 May 2005 20:07, James Finnall wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 14:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would have expected that what was true of CDs would be true with DVDs. So let us assume for now that DVDs are still safe in that aspect. At least no real problems have

Re: Problem on recording DVD-Rs.

2005-05-14 Thread James Finnall
On Sunday 08 May 2005 18:49, Luis Sousa wrote: Hi all, I'm using Debian Sarge with: - kernel: 2.4.26 - mkisofs: 2.01+01a01-2 - dvd+rw-tools: 5.21.4.10.8-1 - window manager: kde 3.3 - Drive LG DVD DVDRAM GSA-4163B dmesg: CSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-05-14 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 13 May 2005 20:34, James Finnall wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 20:07, James Finnall wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 14:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, snip I just thought of another possible solution I need to test. The write operation using sdd with 32k byte aligned structures

Linux kernel 2.6.x Raw device support

2005-05-20 Thread James Finnall
Hello All, When configuring a Linux kernel 2.6.x series to enable the raw device support, it states this as being obsolete and deprecated. The suggestion is to use the O_DIRECT flag when opening the device name. I can see how this could be possible from inside an application where the system

Re: Linux kernel 2.6.x Raw device support

2005-05-21 Thread James Finnall
On Saturday 21 May 2005 05:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Perhaps someone here could offer some suggestions. I take that for any suggestions and (again) advise DVD writer programs like growisofs or cdrecord-ProDVD. With growisofs i roughly use formatter_program | \ growisofs

USB Port speeds

2013-06-24 Thread James Finnall
Hello All, I have uBuntu systems and running 3.2 kernel. I also use K3B software version 2.0.2. The DVD drive I am using is Pioneer BDR-208D in a USB 2.0 enclosure. When I burn a DVD+R I can get 14222 KB/s throughput rates and a DVD burns and verifies OK. When I burn a BD-RE at 2x speed

Re: USB Port speeds

2013-06-25 Thread James Finnall
Hello Thomas, and thank you for your response and consideration. The format option of -spare=none did help to at least double the performance as you thought. I was able add the parameter to the command in K3B settings as well. However, I was not able to modify any of the selected programs

Re: USB Port speeds

2013-06-27 Thread James Finnall
Hello Thomas, Responses below for the suggested commands. stream_recording seems to have nailed the issue down. I did check for firmware updates on Pioneer website but none available at the current time. I read the man page regarding stream_recording but not sure that I fully understand

Re: USB Port speeds

2013-06-27 Thread James Finnall
interest and consideration of my problem. James On 06/27/2013 10:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Finnall ja...@finnall.net wrote: Hello Thomas, Responses below for the suggested commands. stream_recording seems to have nailed the issue down. I did check for firmware updates on Pioneer

BD Drive performance

2014-03-24 Thread James Finnall
manufacturer and model if you know of any units that actually perform at rated performance levels. If certain media is required then please specify what is known to work for you. Thank you for your consideration, James Finnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org

Re: BD-R burn errors

2014-04-17 Thread James Finnall
On 04/16/2014 04:16 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, My drive setup is returning an error on all BD-R media just at the very end of the burn. [...] The media appears to be mountable and usable like the burn completed normally. System description is Ubuntu Linux12.04LTS with KDE desktop using K3b.

Re: BD-R burn errors

2014-04-17 Thread James Finnall
On 04/17/2014 09:16 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, I did attempt to format the BD-R last night. No good. It would not attempt it. The program would run and then terminate. The BD-R sounds like you tried to format the already written BD-R. That won't work. The workaround has to be applied

Re: BD-R burn errors

2014-04-17 Thread James Finnall
On 04/17/2014 09:39 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, The workaround has to be applied to the unused BD-R _before_ K3b resp. growisofs get to see it. These were unused (brand new) media I attempted to format. Strange. In order to get to the bug, growisofs must have succeeded with formatting.

Re: BD-R burn errors

2014-04-18 Thread James Finnall
I did have =ssa:none on the growisofs argument. Changed it to =spare:none and then burned two BD-R at 21 GByte. Both finished normally and verified. The log reports did not include the background format message either. Performance was also significantly increased. It started at 3.4x and

BD-RE DL write failures

2017-08-16 Thread James Finnall
Hello, I have been using xorriso for sometime now.  Recently the tar file exceeded a single layer media and so I purchased double layer media.  I have not been able get reliable burns on the double layer.  The media was labeled "for Video".  So I found some Maxell that was labeled "for Data" and

Re: BD-RE DL write failures

2017-08-16 Thread James Finnall
On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 19:34 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > sorry, i did not react properly on this piece of info: > > > > > The format, erase, and burn processes all complete normally with no > > issues or errors. When I mount and attempt to read the tar file it > > aborts with an error

Re: BD-RE DL write failures

2017-08-17 Thread James Finnall
I set stream_recording off yesterday and did a run at the end of the day.  The screen output appeared that it worked OK.  Then the cron ran the script this morning and it took over 2 hours.  But it failed again, however in different locations. xorriso : UPDATE : 2375392 blocks read in 951 seconds