NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a19:
Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.
***************** Important news ****************************
For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM
***************** Please Test *********************************
All:
- Add hints that compiling on unknown platforms wil only work if
"smake" is used.
- Autoconf code for Large file support now handles Linux system include
file bugs that prevented correct behavior on 64 Bit Linux systems.
Libscg:
Hints for the Packet code:
Thanks to Alexander Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the idea and first
code fragments for supporting the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() from
the cdrom.c kernel driver. Please note that this interface in principle
is completely unneeded but the Linux kernel is just a cluster of
code and does not support planned orthogonal interface systems.
For this reason we need CDROM_SEND_PACKET in order to work around a
bug in the linux kernel that prevents to use PCATA drives because
the kernel panics if you try to put ide-scsi on top of the PCATA
driver.
The code is currently in "status nascendi" but usable with some trade offs.
To use: call e.g.
cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:
cdrecord -dao -v speed=24 dev=ATAPI:0,0 ....
Be careful! This code is only needed in order to be able to use
PCATA CD-writers on notebooks because there is a severe kernel bug.
Unfortunately, this bug causes the kernel to hang (and force you
to reboot) if you try to call:
cdrecord -scanbus
without the dev=ATAPI: option.
In this case cdrecord will hang infintely and unkillable
in open("/dev/sg1", 2) => you need to reboot :-(
Repeat by: Insert a PCATA CD-Writer in a Sony VAIO notebook and run
cdrecord -scanbus.
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- DVD-R code (undisclosed) now supports:
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM LF-D310 '
Revision : 'A116'
- Support for SCMS from *.inf files
Note that you need to use cdda2wav/cdrecord that have fitting versions
because of this change. Otherwise cdrecord may add SCMS copy
protection.
- RAW mode now honors COPY bit and SCMS coding.
- Avoid coredump with "cdrecord textfile= non/existant ..."
- New CD-text *inf file Tag Albumperformer=
NOTE later versions of cdrecord will ignore
Albumtitle= and Albumperformer= if the value is not identical
for all tracks.
For CD-text Autoring support read README.cdtext
CD-text TODO:
- Check whether the *.inf files are all from the same CD
and clear some CD-text fields that are only valid if
they relate to one CD only.
- Add some more fields (mainly a deficiency of cdda2wav)
- Support multi language text
- Support character coding other than ISO-9959-1
******************************************************************
NOTE: Read README.cdtext
NOTE: Read README.raw
******************************************************************
Cdda2wav (By Heiko Ei�feldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
- Better TOC ADDR/CRTL (red book) handling
- Better method to scan for indices.
- Support for SCMS in *.inf files
- Better SUID/SGID handling
Readcd:
- Better behavior with extreme badly readable media.
- List number of completely unreadable sectors in addition to
the C2 error count.
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs (By J�rg Schilling and James Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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 be 100% correct as there is no relation
between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
untranslated with respect to the original files on the
master (UNIX) filesystem.
- implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes
- add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.
This may not be needed if we ise VCDimager and recent
cdrecord versions.
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
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
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URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
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