Re: Re: [Cdrecord-support] using cdrecord varirec and gigarec option together

> Where is the related info on how to do this? VariREC: The CDB is 0xE9 0x10 0x02 Flag1 setting strategy 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x00 Flag 1 is Bit 4=1 => set varirec DVD Bit 4=0 => set varirec CD Bit 1=1 => enable Bit 1=0 => disable Although Plextor pretends otherwise in PlexTools,

Re: "logical unit communication failure" c2scan NEC ND-4550A 1.07

Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you understand my paragraph you quoted? > I'll take it apart for you: > 1. I am not interested in your operating systems "known to work", >and you know as much. Installing OSs may be your hobby, it's not >one of mine. > 2. I am not intere

Re: "logical unit communication failure" c2scan NEC ND-4550A 1.07

Joerg Schilling wrote: Wasn't there, some time ago, a problem with Linux and DMA transfers with sizes that were not a power of two? Could you patch growisofs in order to use like 17 or 23 sectors per transfer and see what happens? I believe that the problem was only related to size % 512 != 0

Re: "logical unit communication failure" c2scan NEC ND-4550A 1.07

Matthias Andree wrote: Alexander Noé schrieb am 2006-02-11: Change the UDMA mode to a lower setting and try again. Try a better IDE cable and try again. As UDMA/33 works properly for everything else like growisofs reading or writing a DVD (16X) or such, and FreeBSD (same computer, multi-bo

Re: Re: "logical unit communication failure" c2scan NEC ND-4550A 1.07

Matthias Andree wrote: > I'm not interested in "known to work", but as the drive works with > FreeBSD 6-STABLE, is there a better way to isolate the problem than > running readcd with -v -V -d under strace(1) supervision? Change the UDMA mode to a lower setting and try again. Try a better IDE c

Re: Re: cdrtools cdrecord/cdrecord.c

Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Hold it right there, Jörg. The hexadecimal rubbish dumped on the > screen by cdrecord for "no problems, everything's fine" (and other > things) is a lot bigger than what you're complaining about here. Could you give an example where cdrecord dumps hexadecimal rubbish to

Re: Re: cdrtools cdrecord/cdrecord.c

> Well possible. But why did the media work in september 2004 and die > a quick and reliable dead in november 2005 ? The same spindles. Two > brands with two different media infos. There is not much -RW media besides Mitsubishi that even has a chance to work properly. On the +RW side, some drive

Re: Re: cdrtools cdrecord/cdrecord.c

Geoffrey > Actually Jörg, I tend to agree with Steve, but it could well be > a cultural issue. You do come across rather blunt. Although this is true, let me tell you some things: * the difficulties to express such notions in a foreign language are unknown to some (actually, too many) english

Re: growisofs will not write at 8x with NEC 3540A

Joerg Schilling wrote: "Alexander Noe'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "George P Nychis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry, I removed the alarm feature by getting the newest binary, I >> use gentoo and an old alpha binary was in portage. I d

Re: Re: growisofs will not write at 8x with NEC 3540A

"George P Nychis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry, I removed the alarm feature by getting the newest binary, I >> use gentoo and an old alpha binary was in portage. I don't get the >> alarm, but it still says writing at 6 speed: > Does it stay at 6x in the "verbose printing while writing

Re: bug in cdrecord-2.01.01a03

Thomas Klausner wrote: Hi! On NetBSD-3.99.15/i386, with cdrtools-2.01.01a03, writing an ordinary FUJI 1-4x CD-RW broke. The same command line, drive, and medium works with cdrtools-2.01... There was indeed a bug in this media check (and, even worse, the bug was my fault), Jörg already found

Re: DVD+R DL writing failed

Dorin Lazar wrote: INQUIRY: [_NEC ][DVD_RW ND-3500AG][2.16] This firmware version is ancient [NEC fails to write on crap discs] What does the error actually mean? While most drives waste money by trying to record Ritek DVD+R DL, NEC drives are among the fews ones which save ti

Re: DVD+R DL writing failed

/From/: Dorin Lazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > INQUIRY: [_NEC ][DVD_RW ND-3500AG][2.16] This firmware version is ancient > [NEC fails to write on crap discs] > What does the error actually mean? While most drives waste money by trying to record Ritek DVD+R DL, NEC dri

Re: DVD DL woes...

I'm noticing the following behavior using two different types of DL media (Ridata and Memorex). How are RITEK-D01 and RITEK-D01 2 different types?? Your drive is among the few ones which show this correct behaviour with this media: it blacklists it. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Re: NEC ND-3520A - Speed issues in cdrecord-prodvd and growisofs

Ismail Donmez wrote: >> mode_sense page 2A vs get_performance Wonder if Joerg and/or Andy will comment on this? Like using get_performance instead of mode_sense would work all devices? Does it have any drawbacks? Maybe a link to RTFM? :) Plextor PX-712, Fw 1.06 -> reports broken lists on *both*

Re: NEC ND-3520A - Speed issues in cdrecord-prodvd and growisofs

Rodney Gordon II wrote: I recently picked up a NEC ND-3520A and I am having speed problems with this drive under linux. A quick "just to make sure" test in WinXP shows that these errors are indeed specific to cdrecord-prodvd and growisofs. NEC 35x0 drives report crap answers on mode_sense page 2

Re: Re: Bitsetting for LG GSA-41XXB drives

Ville Syrjälä wrote: I wrote: 4120B flashed to 4160B -> same as genuine 4120B. This suggests that the limitation of the LG 4160B comes from the EEPROM and not from the firmware. That's weird. Does 4120B flashed to 4160B identify itself as 4120B or 4160B? Drives identify themselves always via fir

Re: Bitsetting for LG GSA-41XXB drives

Ville Syrjälä wrote: You can change booktype for DVD+R or DVD+R DL discs. For DVD+R discs you can choose DVD+R or DVD-ROM booktype and for DL discs you can choose DVD+R DL or DVD-ROM booktype. Those restrictions were present in the Windows utility source. I haven't tested what will happen if you

Re: Re: Re: Errors with 8x media, works in other OS

I'm one of the people who tried to get a response from Joerg about obtaining a license for cdrecord-ProDVD for our HP-UX 10 systems here at the Cleveland Clinic. I never received a reply. Following ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/cdrecord/ProDVD/README ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/RE

Re: Re: Errors with 8x media, works in other OS

How stupid can one single person actually benot long ago, a certain "takeshima" broke the record one sourceforge (read about that here: http://linuxfr.org/~zeb/17243.html ), but you are some serious competition for that guy. Your email address suggests that english is your native language, so y