Bug#409005: wodim: Confusing error message when ISO image is too big

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Mas
Peter Samuelson, 2007-01-29 23:16:45 -0600 :

 Ah yeah.  It noticed the size of the image (i.e., greater than 720
 MB) and looked for a DVD writer on your system.  That is why you got
 the error about not finding a device.

 Thanks for reporting.  I'm pondering the best way to fix this...

  A simple printf saying just that would be good enough for me :-)

Roland.
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Bug#409005: wodim: Confusing error message when ISO image is too big

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wodim
Version: 9:1.1.2-1
Severity: normal

I accidentally had too much data to backup, and the ISO image my
scripts generated was about 750 MB.  I guess that's over the limit (my
CD-RW discs are rated at 700 MB), and wodim realised that.  However,
it failed to inform me about that, and chose to give me the following
error messages:

+ wodim -v archives.iso
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
Quickly guessing the name of a drive capable to write DVD-R, please wait...
Unable to guess the target drive. Please specify manually using
dev=... argument or other configuration methods, see wodim(1) for details.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '-1'
devname: '-1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
scsidev: 'ATA:-1'
devname: 'ATA:-1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
wodim: No such file or directory.
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

wodim blank=fast works fine without a device specification, and
bringing my ISO image back to a more reasonable size results in the CD
being written.  If that can help, here are the lines in kern.log
documenting my CD-RW drive:

Jan 29 08:06:41 mirexpress kernel: hdb: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B, ATAPI 
CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jan 29 08:06:41 mirexpress kernel: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB
Cache, UDMA(33)
Jan 29 08:06:41 mirexpress kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-xen-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages wodim depends on:
ii  libc6   2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1 1:1.10-14support for getting/setting POSIX.

Versions of packages wodim recommends:
ii  genisoimage   9:1.1.2-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

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Bug#409005: wodim: Confusing error message when ISO image is too big

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Samuelson

[Roland Mas]
 I accidentally had too much data to backup, and the ISO image my
 scripts generated was about 750 MB.  I guess that's over the limit
 (my CD-RW discs are rated at 700 MB), and wodim realised that.
 However, it failed to inform me about that, and chose to give me the
 following error messages:

Ah yeah.  It noticed the size of the image (i.e., greater than 720 MB)
and looked for a DVD writer on your system.  That is why you got the
error about not finding a device.

Thanks for reporting.  I'm pondering the best way to fix this...
Peter


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