Re: Cdrecord!

2005-11-28 Thread Markus Plail
Rüdiger Greeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>You are a victim of unplanned changes in the Linux kernel and it may >>be that you run software that is not used on Linux by default. > > Is there a plan about Linux changes? I just found a 'final word' about > udev vs. devfs th

Re: c2scan of DVDs??

2004-12-01 Thread Markus Plail
Thanos Kyritsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 01:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> As Plextor is the only company that includes a reliable way to check >> the errors, > > Yet, I cannot understand why it is Plextor specifically the only one > that includes a reliable way. P

Re: Recover DVD written too fast?

2004-04-08 Thread Markus Plail
Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What way could I know if my media is low quality? > In all cases I think my DVD could go to the thrash, yes? > dvd+rw-mediainfo gives me: > > INQUIRY:[SONY][DVD RW DRU-500A ][2.0h] > GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: > Mounted Media:

Re: Recover DVD written too fast?

2004-04-08 Thread Markus Plail
Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What way could I know if my media is low quality? > In all cases I think my DVD could go to the thrash, yes? > dvd+rw-mediainfo gives me: > > INQUIRY:[SONY][DVD RW DRU-500A ][2.0h] > GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: > Mounted Media:

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry.. that wasn't meant to show up here

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
Hallo Hendrik! Hendrik Hoeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Du hattest von etwa zwei Wochen auf drf Dein 80-200/2.8 angeboten. > Gibt's das noch, oder ist es schon verkauft? Das ist leider schon weg. In der Newsgroup hatte sich damals aber niemand gemeldet. Servus Markus > PS: Sorry, dass ich an

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry.. that wasn't meant to show up here -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
Hallo Hendrik! Hendrik Hoeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Du hattest von etwa zwei Wochen auf drf Dein 80-200/2.8 angeboten. > Gibt's das noch, oder ist es schon verkauft? Das ist leider schon weg. In der Newsgroup hatte sich damals aber niemand gemeldet. Servus Markus > PS: Sorry, dass ich an

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-19 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? >> >> Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some >> there a

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-19 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? >> >> Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some >> there a

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-17 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. regards markus

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-17 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. regards markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: linux 2.5/6 and cdrecord

2003-12-13 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A bit OT. But I received an email from someone who asserted that > "dev=x,x,x breaks on kernel 2.5, which requires dev=/dev/blaa." > Is this by any chance true? Does "cdrecord dev=0,0,0 cdrom.iso" > still work under linux 2.5+? It works if you use ide-scsi. If you don

Re: linux 2.5/6 and cdrecord

2003-12-13 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A bit OT. But I received an email from someone who asserted that > "dev=x,x,x breaks on kernel 2.5, which requires dev=/dev/blaa." > Is this by any chance true? Does "cdrecord dev=0,0,0 cdrom.iso" > still work under linux 2.5+? It works if you use ide-scsi. If you don

Re: cdrecord starts slow and speeds up later

2003-12-02 Thread Markus Plail
Gil Disatnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dvd/cdrw combo on my D600 laptop, when using cdrecord to burn > cds the burning process starts at x10 speed, after 168MB it goes up to > x16 speed and only after 502MB it finally reaches x24 speed. That's normal behaviour for certain cd writers.

Re: cdrecord starts slow and speeds up later

2003-12-02 Thread Markus Plail
Gil Disatnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dvd/cdrw combo on my D600 laptop, when using cdrecord to burn > cds the burning process starts at x10 speed, after 168MB it goes up to > x16 speed and only after 502MB it finally reaches x24 speed. That's normal behaviour for certain cd writers.

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just fine. >> Plase name the Pioneer mo

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just fine. >> Plase name the Pioneer mo

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: > Are we talking about the same thing? I need a writeable > _block device_. I have _no problems_ using cdrecord or > growisofs (w/ poor man's access method). Ah.. sorry. No I meant with cdrecord. regards Markus

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: > Are we talking about the same thing? I need a writeable > _block device_. I have _no problems_ using cdrecord or > growisofs (w/ poor man's access method). Ah.. sorry. No I meant with cdrecord. regards Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: > If I understand correctly, the use of ide-scsi under 2.6 > is deprecated. More or less, yes. > However, I am unable to write to /dev/hdx directly under 2.6.0-test8. With what kind of errors? > This works with the patched ide-scsi and sr_mod. Patched? W

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: > If I understand correctly, the use of ide-scsi under 2.6 > is deprecated. More or less, yes. > However, I am unable to write to /dev/hdx directly under 2.6.0-test8. With what kind of errors? > This works with the patched ide-scsi and sr_mod. Patched? W

Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-10-25 Thread Markus Plail
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Rob Bogus wrote: > I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been having > problems with 2.01a19 and audio as well. This week I have burned 17 > data CDs without *any* problem, and using the same media and burner > had to try eight times to finally get one single a

Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-10-25 Thread Markus Plail
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Rob Bogus wrote: > I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been having > problems with 2.01a19 and audio as well. This week I have burned 17 > data CDs without *any* problem, and using the same media and burner > had to try eight times to finally get one single a

Re: DVD in dummy write works, but not real mode? (linux 2.6.0-test7 ide-cd)

2003-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a11 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) >> 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited >> features: This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: >> private/research/educational_non-commercial_use TOC Type: 1 = CD

Re: DVD in dummy write works, but not real mode? (linux 2.6.0-test7 ide-cd)

2003-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a11 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) >> 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited >> features: This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: >> private/research/educational_non-commercial_use TOC Type: 1 = CD

Re: Burning audio disc literally 30x the system load of data disc

2003-08-20 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: >On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:17:36AM -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: >> No, there is a patch to the 2.4 kernel to use DMA when burning audio, >> at least for some earlier kernels. > > Where is that patch available then? I am quite sure that there's no such thing. Th

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: >On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:08:54PM +0200, Markus Plail wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:24:37AM +0200, Markus Plail wrote: >> >> > or that >> >> > * 2.4 ca

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:24:37AM +0200, Markus Plail wrote: >> > or that >> > * 2.4 can talk to burner in DMA, but only for 2048 block sizes. >> >> Yes, exactly. > > Why is it then that this problem seems to a

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Let me make an example: A few weeks ago, Jeff Garzik announced a new > SCSI interface for ATAPI. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10539253612&r=3&w=2 > > If you read this thread, you see that Linus obviously does not > understand the background

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Norbert Preining wrote: > What are the *theoretically* maximum speeds for audio, ie not DMA, > burning? It depends on too many things to tell the theoretically maximum speed. > I guess that it is around 12x, this is what I see at the final speed > result. Depending on the d

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
ble of doing this. > > On Mit, 16 Jul 2003, Markus Plail wrote: >> That's only true for non 2048 block sizes (audio, (S)VCD, RAW)). > > Does this mean > * 2.6+ can talk to burner in DMA for all block sizes When using dev=/dev/hdX, yes, but Jörg doesn't like that imp

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:54:03AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: >> I have two questions concerning burning with/without burn-free: >> >> The first: How fast is it theoretically possible with an UDMA100 >> harddisk to burn *without* burnfree p

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-04 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003, Markus Plail wrote: > [something that shouldn't have gone here, sorry.] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-04 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003, Andy Polyakov wrote: >> >> > This is also a mystery... Why do 51s come in pairs... >> > >> > Test this: >> >> Great! Not 100% but I could successfully record a DVD and read it >> afterwards :-) Seems like fixation isn't yet 100% ready. >> /dev/hdd: FEATURE 21h is not on, enga

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-02 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Seems to be the same as with cdrecord. > > The TEAC DV-W50E is a Pioneer A05 with only the inquiry string > changed. I know. > As the A05 is known to work perfectly wit

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-02 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003, Andy Polyakov wrote: > New version of dvd+rw-tools is on-line at usual location, > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/. Most notably new version: > > - adds support for Linux 2>=5 (do observe that an interim kernel patch > is required for kernels prior upcoming 2.5.71,

Re: Does someone know how to "cure" the 2.5.59 kernel?

2003-02-09 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: >On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:24:33PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: >>Why do you use a development kernel in the first place? >Well, I don't see the connection with my problem... >Because that way, I have preemt, ALSA, DVB, XFS and that way I could >&qu

Re: Does someone know how to "cure" the 2.5.59 kernel?

2003-02-07 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: >On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:19:06PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>And I cannot help any further as long as I don't get more information >>why the scsi command did fail :-( >Could I do something? Why do you use a development kernel in the first place? regards Markus -

Add nero CD/DVD speed functionality to readcd

2003-01-19 Thread Markus Plail
Hi all, especially Jörg! As there is no such thing as C2-scans for DVD at the moment, I added an analyze funtion to readcd. It displays a variable count of read speeds when using readcd. In the end it can be used to display a nice graph using gnuplot. This is at least a better indication of the DV

Re: Status of ide writing?

2003-01-12 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: >is it possible to burn without idescsi under 2.5.56? It would be a good idea to tell us what command line options you used. You could also try to burn CDs and see if that works. All I can tell you is, that I succesfully burned some CDs without ide-scsi in 2.5 kernels. B

Re: Condition to burn DVD in speed 2?

2003-01-08 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: >great, I thought I should change the license of cdrecord-prodvd... You can burn at least 4x with the free key provided in the README. That's mostly a limitation for the clone features of cdrecordPRODVD. regards Markus PS: I am quite sure you won't get the source code,

Re: mkisofs DVD-Video problem Help wanted

2002-12-20 Thread Markus Plail
* Andy Polyakov writes: >BTW, Markus! Can you confirm that remaining files are not renamed. I >mean when it deletes 0-sized VTS_02_00.VOB, does it rename >VTS_02_01.VOB to VTS_02_00.VOB or is it so that VTS_02_00.VOB is not >present at all? They are not present at all. regards Markus -- To UN

Re: mkisofs DVD-Video problem Help wanted

2002-12-20 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: >as you might have noticed, there still is a problem in mkisofs: >With at least one DVD-Video (ice age as sold in Germany) there is >a problem when you try to create a UDF DVD from the file tree. >If you call: >mkisofs -o /tmp/DVD.out -dvd-video DVD-Video/ >and get: >T

Re: TEAC DV-W50E

2002-12-16 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: >>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Today I got the DVD writer, which is a clone of the Pioneer A05. I could >>flawlessly burn an ISO to a DVD-RW at speed 1x. I got an error messages >>though. Don't know if it is of any inte

TEAC DV-W50E

2002-12-14 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Jörg! Today I got the DVD writer, which is a clone of the Pioneer A05. I could flawlessly burn an ISO to a DVD-RW at speed 1x. I got an error messages though. Don't know if it is of any interest. regards Markus PS: Do you have already decided on how to handle the free license noncommercial af

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-12-04 Thread Markus Plail
* Markus Plail writes: >* Len Sorensen writes: >>use 2048byte blocks, can't use dma on current linux kernels >>(supposedly it will be possible in 2.6 kernels). Audio would fit that >>category and hence use a lot more cpu. >It is already possible in 2.5 kernels and I

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-28 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: >>Yes, ATAPI. acer CDRW 2010A (crappy), ECS KSS5A with Athlon XP1800+. >> >>SIS5513: chipset revision 208 >>SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later >>SiS735ATA

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: >>It is already possible in 2.5 kernels and I am still convinced that >>it's also possible with 2.4 kernels. Just tested it once again. Audio >>CD at 20x speed with less than 3% CPU loa

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:56:21PM -0600, David Bell wrote: >>On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:37, Len Sorensen wrote: >>> I see NOTHING there that indicates if dma is on or off, only what is >>> supported. The * does NOT indicate linux is using dma. >>> /proc/ide/hd?/settings does

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-26 Thread Markus Plail
* David Bell writes: >Yes, DMA is enabled on all drives: >[12:50:51][root@david:/home/david]# hdparm -i /dev/hda hdparm -i isn't really appropriate here. You should use -v. man hdparm: -i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at boot time, if available. This is a fe

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-26 Thread Markus Plail
* David Bell writes: >[high system load when doing anything other than burning plain data >discs] >Is this an issue in the kernel or cdrecord? Kernel. >Is it expected to be fixed soon? Kinda fixed since 2.5.47 IIRC. ide_scsi isn't needed anymore, but readcd doesn't work yet. >If not, if I put

Re: Problems with readcd and Aopen CDROM drive

2002-11-02 Thread Markus Plail
* Lourens Veen writes: >On Friday 01 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Crane wrote: >> >>I followed up Jorg's suggestion of firmware updates for the Aopen >>but there appear to be none for that drive. Any suggestions for a >>workaround to force readcd to read only the true data/2048 >>sector-size? >Failing t

Re: Linux DMA-issues (was: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready)

2002-10-14 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Frederick! * Frederick Page writes: >Markus Plail wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002: >>>Again: the idle time is important. >>I'd say system time is important. >I simply don't know (you might be right). I just watched the "idle" >time and got quite a go

Re: Linux DMA-issues (was: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready)

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Frederick! * Frederick Page writes: >Hi Joerg, >Joerg Schilling wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002: >>The fact that Linux does not use DMA with ATAPI has ben reported by >>may people! >For example in the Linux Kernel Mailing List, and one would assume, >that those guys know what's going on. Yes, they

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: >>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I have about 18% load at 16x with the new version. It says libedc is >>able to do 147x speed. The closed source version does 422x and a36 was >>about 125x IIRC. I am using a Athlon XP1800+ with C

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Jörg! * Joerg Schilling writes: >>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>* Joerg Schilling writes: >>>Note that the encoding speed is content dependant. Also note that due >>>to a kernel design bug, Linux does not enable DMA for ATAPI drives if >&g

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Jörg! * Joerg Schilling writes: >Note that the encoding speed is content dependant. Also note that due >to a kernel design bug, Linux does not enable DMA for ATAPI drives if >the sector size is != 2048 (as with RAW sector size 2448). This results >in a high system load and may cause a buffer

Re: Bug in ide-scsi transport?

2002-09-19 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Paul! * Paul R Culmo writes: >I've been having some issues with CDrecord and cd burning in general >with cdrecord and redhat 7.3 with the 2.4.19 kernel but it happens with >the 2.4.18-3 kernel too. >I have a HP CD-RW 24x10x40 and when burning at speeds higher than 8x the >following error show

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-15 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Len! * Len Sorensen writes: > I expect DVD+RW to die a quick death, or at least don't care if it > survives. It hasn't delivered any of what it promised, and offers > nothing as far as I can tell that DVD-R(W) doesn't already offer. The only advantage I see at the moment for DVD+R(W) is that

Re: Creating .inf files

2002-04-15 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Bill! * Bill Davidsen writes: > I have some .wav files without and info files. These are not CD RIPs, > the source predates CD by decades. Is there a good software to > generate .inf files from the .wav files, other than the titles and > artists, so I can fill them in? Platform is Linux. What

Errors in one of the last sectors

2002-03-08 Thread Markus Plail
Hi! Burning CDs with the latest cdrtools (same behaviour with a13) I always get one unreadable sector. This sector is always one of the last and it's always only one defect sector. It's the same with two different CDR media (Kodak Ultima 80 (1-24x) and Memorex 80 16x) and two burners (Teac CDR-5