On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:32:58AM -0500, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: > On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 09:38 PM, Josh Kuperman wrote:
Chris, Please don't be insulted by this. I do appreciate the work you've done to port this. But the man pages and the documentation are not enough to make this an easily useable application for me. It may enough for those who have used it other systems. This is far from the only ported app where I have problems with the documentation but it is one where the OS X differences show up dramatically. I figure at the very least I should have been able to figure out if I could gain anything over using DiskCopy. [snip] > >Basically, of OS X, Roxio, and cdrecord -- iTunes burns fine, but I probably should have also added hdiutil as something for burning CDs I want to try. It is not a high priority for me. > >Roxio Titanium always hits buffer underuns and I haven't been able yet > >to figure out how to do basic tasks, copy from my internal to the > >burner, with cdrecord. [snip] > man cdrecord is your friend, also try looking at the docs in > /sw/share/doc/cdrecord As man pages go, I wouldn't say that. There is really not enough info to use this easily from the command line simply by glancing at the Man pages because it is more difficult to determine the devices in OS X. The man pages and the README.macosx file, make cdrecord look more and more as an application in need of a custom interface to detect devices and explain the options. The man pages are mostly SCSI with next to nothing on using Firewire devices and there is nothing saying if I need to insert a CD-R into the burner to get the device mounted before I start, or if it will ask, or what to do about the OS X interface when it asks about preparing a CD-R. The main reason I follow threads on CD burning is to figure out what is going on with my burner (why it works from the OS builtins but not Roxio when I try to copy a CD - I suspect my iMac 400Mhz machine is too slow to support a direct copy to a high speed burner, an option not offered by the OS programs - at least iTunes and the Finder). Instructions to run 'ioreg -l' from the README.macosx file are interesting; I think it wonderful that little bits of info that might generate curiosity and move one more toward wanted to do hardware design and system programming and a wonderful thing. Basically, it is difficult to determine which devices are being referred to either from a command line 'dev=' or from the contents of /sw/etc/default/cdrecord and how to do a CD to CD-R copy. As far as I can tell these instructions might do it if my system were faste enough and or I had buffer underun protection.. [snip] -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
