>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 30 15:36:18 2001

>Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> 
>> >From: Nicolae Mihalache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 
>> >As promised, I released a new patch that adds incremental (and
>> >multisession)
>> >support for dvd writing. It can be downloaded from:
>> >http://www.abcpages.com/~mache/cdrecord-dvd.html
>> 
>> Please remove the fals claims from you web page:
>> 
>> >-Because cdrecord is broken in the sense that it thinks that packet -> TAO, and 
>because Joerg Shiling seems to completely ignore my mails about these issues, I had 
>to modify cdrecord such that incremental
>> >writing will work on DVD but it will probably not work on CD. Otherwise using 
>-packet
>> >option would result in "drive does not support TAO writing mode" error (this is 
>stupid).
>> 
>> I am neither ignoring your mail, not does cdrecord think packet is TAO.
>> 
>> I send a correction to this fals assumption about a week ago.
>What correction have you sent? I did not receive it :(
>At least for cdrecord1.11a08 it is true that if the drive does not 
>support TAO but support packet, when you try to use -packet it will give
>"this
>drive does not support TAO" error.
>Am I missing something?

Cdrecord reports what the drive returns in my test:

cdrecord dev=2,0 -checkdrive
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 1.11a09 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg 
Schilling
scsidev: '2,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC 
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-103 '
Revision       : '1.44'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R

cdrecord dev=2,0 -checkdrive
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 1.11a09 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg 
Schilling
scsidev: '2,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC 
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-103 '
Revision       : '1.44'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R

As you can see, there is no difference whether there is a
DVD or a CD in the drive :-(


J�rg

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