Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 11:56 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > I am just forwarding information I got from the removable media group
> > in the way I did understand the information.
>
> Yes, but some of your claims are misleading or unclear to me. IOW, are they
> not going to fix a bug for the Pioneer drives because it is really a firmware
> problem and the fix is to upgrade the firmware? I don't know, and wasn't sure
> by your description.
I have been told that cdrecord works out of the box with these drives.
Most drives have some bugs in the firmware and the important fact about cdrecord
is that it has been coded very carefully in order to avoid problems with
different interpretations of the SCSI standard. In addition, cdrecord
implements a lot of workarounds for various well known firmware bugs in drives.
There is e.g. a workaround that allows you to write at full DVD speed with NEC
drives that return the wrong max. writing speed, there is a workaround
that deals with the well kown close session problems for DVD+RW media
with Pioneer drives...
I am not sure if there is any DVD drive that is free of firmware bugs.
If a writing software does not implement workarounds for well known firmware
bugs, I would call it not properly maintained.
Jörg
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