(I hesitate to intrude in this heated discussion, but.....)
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
I am not sure whether you did read the man page for cdrecord in depth
The very fact you have to read the cdrecord man page in depth is the issue.
[...]
but it seems that you don't know that it is not harder to use cdrecord
(you need to specify even less parameters in case you like to do the
simple tasks that cdrw only supports) than to use cdrw.
Overall I have to agree that cdrw wins on ease of use with "cdrw -i
file". But the good news may be that almost the only issue with
cdrecord is the need to specify dev=a,b,c. And to use -scanbus before
this to find the device.
So maybe a useful enhancement would be to do what cdrw does, i.e. if no
device is specified (and found via other defaults) then have cdrecord do
the equivalent of "-scanbus" internally, and then, assuming a single
recordable drive is found, pick that one. This might go 99% of the way
to fix the concerns.
Now, people may complain "what about the scan time on a system with
hundreds of drives". I think the same complaint may have been raised
during cdrw development, but the ease of use argument won out, as well
as "well in that case, specify dev=...".
The other issue would be the following error I get:
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
dependent defaults.
[........................]
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.
Ideally when choosing a default mode, it might be good to check the list
of supported modes first, and then don't pick TAO unless it's supported.
Joerg wrote:
cdrw only writes Track At Once.
Umm, from the man page:
Creating Data DVDs
[...] When making data DVDs, cdrw uses Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode
and Darren wrote:
Well I did use it without ever reading the man page (and neither you are
I can prove otherwise :-)). I know that with some level of certainty
since I'm pretty sure I used from bfu archives when it first integrated
and the man page wasn't integrated yet.
... but Darren may have remembered the options from the ARC case.
Hugh.
PS: on my system at least, cdrecord seems to win in the always-important
"not burning coaster DVDs" stakes though, unlike cdrw, which dies at the
start for some reason. So I'm grateful for this, but it would certainly
be nice not to have to specify "dev=whatever".
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