NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a02:
NOTE: There are 2000 new lines of code and aprox. 1000 lines of code did
change within the last two weeks.
Although I thoroughly tested every line of my code, there may be bugs...
Please report if you have any problem that is not present with
cdrtools-1.11a01.
All:
Libscg:
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- I hope that the 90 minute CD capacity warning now will finally
disappear for DVD writers.
- Old test code removed that prevented cdrecord from being able
to write manually configured indices. Note that the index lists
from the *.inf files with using the -useinfo option alway worked.
- -force will force cdrecord to ingnore any failed forced OPC.
currently this is only done if the drive does not support
forced OPC.
- Do forced OPC before blanking a CD-RW
- Driveropts "burnproof" renamed to "burnfree".
This has been done as this technology now appears in the MMC standard.
Currently, I know of the following similar technologies:
BURN-Proof Sanyo
Just-Link Ricoh
Super-Buffer Philips
Write-Proof TEAC
Safe-Burn Yamaha
Buffer Underrun Free MMC-3
As I do not yet own Philips, TEAC or Yamaha drives with the technology,
I cannot tell whether they are MMC-3 compliant.
- Cdrecord now shows whether BURN-Free is active. This makes
sense as Ricoh's "Just-Link" is enabled by default.
Unfortunately, the way "Just-link" is implemented is not compliant
with the MMC standard. We will have to wait until I get the needed
information from Ricoh.
- Support for MMC RAW mode writing.
This allows to do disk at once recording on Philips drives that
do not support SAO.
You may write audio tracks in RAW mode. There are some new
and most likely transient options:
-raw16 Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+Q Subchannel
-raw96r Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in raw mode)
-raw96p Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in packed mode)
Indices are fully supported in RAW mode.
MCN & ISRC are not yet suported in RAW mode, they are silently discarded.
I know that cdrecord currently does not work in RAW/R96P mode.
It is not clear whether this is a bug in cdrecord or in the Plextor
firmware as I did not yet found another drive that claimes to support
RAW7R96P.
If you find other problems in RAW mode or if you find
new bugs introduced in old write modes, please send a bug report.
- Cdrecord now checks the properties of the writer. If a specific write
mode is not supported by the writer, cdrecord warns you and makes
a suggestion for a similar alternate write mode.
With the curent structure of cdrecord, it is not possible to silently
e.g. change the write mode from -dao to -raw96r
- MMC compliant drives are automatically scanned for supported write modes.
This should help to make cdrecord work without manual static configuration.
My hope is still to have no need to know all drive properties in
advance, so new drives will continue to work as long as they
are standard comliant enough for cdrecord.
NOTE for GUI implementors:
the line starting with the text:
"Checking possible write modes:"
will go away in the near future.
The line starting with:
"Supported modes:"
will remain and should be checked for possible write modes.
Cdda2wav:
Readcd:
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs:
TODO:
- read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task:
Peter Berendi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> announced that he likes
to be the volounteer for this task.
Unfortunately, I did no hear again from him, but I got
a proposal from
"Krisztian Gede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
who also likes to do the job.
Note that this can never 100% correctly as there is no relation
between the names on the master filesystem, the ISO-9660 names
and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are untranslated
with respect to the origina files on the master filesystem.
- implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes
- add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.
- add UDF support
CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:
To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it.
For more information read README.win32
The files are located on:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
tar may get some minor trouble.
WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file!
All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
J�rg
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