I suppose I should add some details on the positive side: min buffer full
never goes below 90%, and many other files are ok.
I think I have gotten cd-cdr to work using dd.
Carl
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From: Philippe Moutarlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: mkisofs -> cdrecord
>
> Just about piping : writing CD's is a real ONE time job.
> Better be sure the program PROVIDING the data is real time .. and I don't
think mkisofs is anything but a "normal" unix (no-real-time) process. No
suprise if doing
> it in two steps (writing an image on hard disk, then burn it) tends to be
more reliable ...
>
> for example, I could never get a direct burn cd-to-cdr to work properly.
It is supposed to work, but I just could not get it.
>
> Philippe
>
> "Carl Karsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > two things:
> >
> > 1. I always seam to have trouble piping mkisofs into cdrecord. In the
> > past: try, fail, break it into two steps, works fine, don't worry about
it,
> > repeat next week. I have decided to try and figure out what is going
on.
> >
> > Today I did this:
> >
> > # mkisofs -J -V DataJunc ./ | cdrecord -v dev=0,4,0 speed=6 -
> > (burns ok)
> > # mount /mnt/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/scd0
> > (mounts ok)
> > # diff djwin32.650/setup.exe /mnt/cdroms/cdrom0/djwin32.650/setup.exe
> > Binary files djwin32.650/setup.exe and
> > /mnt/cdroms/cdrom0/djwin32.650/setup.exe
> > differ
> >
> > So that didn't work.
> >
> > Here is what did work:
> >
> > # mkisofs -J -V DataJunc -o dj.iso ./
> > # losetup /dev/loop0 dj.iso
> > # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdimg
> > # diff -v djwin32.650/setup.exe /mnt/cdimg/djwin32.650/setup.exe
> > (diff dosn't report a diff)
> >
> > At this point, I could write the image out to the cd, and I am sure it
would
> > work. it has in the past. I am trying to figure out what I am doing
> > wrong.
> >
> > thing #2: so that I don't make as many coasters, how can I do multi
session
> > cds? how do I mount them? Right now I am only burning about 100 meg, so
I
> > should be able to take 6 shots at it on one disk, right? I realize that
may
> > make things even more complicated, but I may as well use this as a way
to
> > learn about multi sessions cd's anyway.
> >
> > TIA
> > Carl
> >
> >
> >
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