Re: Issues brining BD disks from the command line - write failures

2013-05-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 09 May 2013 19:01:12 NZST +1200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: This happens only with CDs which were written in write type TAO. Ehh, I'm very sure I've seen it with DVDs too, and the read-ahead size there was larger. Nevertheless, that is a _read_ problem. Dale has a pr

Re: 2-session DVD: Linux shows new session's data while windows shows old sessions

2012-04-24 Thread Rob Bogus
Zhang Weiwu wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Thomas Schmitt wrote: That might make a difference to the reading drive. Some drives present some types of closed DVD as "DVD-ROM". It might be that MS-Windows does not expect a DVD-ROM to have multiple sessions. So if the drive does this with DVD-R but n

Re: 2-session DVD: Windows show old content & Linux show new?

2012-04-24 Thread Rob Bogus
Gildor Oronar wrote: Hello. Using xorriso to burn DVD the second time (without -multi, a.k.a. there is no 3rd session). The image is created using genisoimage -C (but not using -M, a.k.a. the old and new content are not related). The burnt DVD - with Linux (gnome), new content is mounted. With

Re: Blu-Ray GUI burning tool

2012-01-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, which (GUI) tool do you use for burning Blu-Ray-disks? Since I don't use KDE nor GNOME, I'd prefer something like TkDVD or the good old xcdroast. What has to fixed for these tools to enable them burning a Blu-Ray disk? Is it just the missing capacities which are not l

Re: Q: state of the art in burning a BD

2012-01-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, since Christmas I have a blu-ray writer. Congrats. What is the state-of-the-art in generating a BD especially when it comes to generating files of size greater than 4 Gb? P.S. Nero-linux writes an UDF system which can be mounted by Linux. mkisofs says

Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: As we are at it, mkisofs can produce HFS images and simple UDF, which xorriso cannot. I am planning to remove HFS support in the future as it seems to be unlikely tha there is a noticable number of Mac OS 9 users left over today. A

Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Rob Bogus wrote: The one feature of cdrecord which seems to be unique is burning VCD and SVCD images. Since the price of DVD media has dropped and more people have hardware support, use of CD for video is a very special case. cdrecord and its clones

Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, If you imagine the difference between xorriso and older utilities, what do you think is the main difference that can be reflected on the user experience? That is, what difference does it make if a desktop DVD burning application make use of xorriso that it can offe

Re: problems with LG BH10LS30 BD-RE

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Tue 26 Apr 2011 04:22:24 NZST +1200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Hello Thomas and J?rg, thanks much for your fast replies! Well, i did not see Joergs's first one. Jörg has not posted to this list in many months. For a while now this list has

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2010-05-24 Thread Rob W
> > > > > > Could you try again with BD-RE media? > > > > > > > > > > Formatting error - please advise > > > > > I am going to write the missing format code soon > > > > > Would you be willing to test it with your unformatted blank? > > > > could you please test the preliminary 2.01.01a79 > > > >

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2010-04-28 Thread Rob W
> Could you please run cdrecord -atip bash-3.00# cdrecord dev=3,0,0 -atip Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a77 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10) scsidev: '3,0,0' scsibus: 3 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using USCSI interface. Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2010-04-27 Thread Rob W
> Could you try again with BD-RE media? Formatting error - please advise bash-3.00# cdrecord -v dev=3,0,0 speed=1 driveropts=burnfree image.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdr

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2010-04-22 Thread Rob W
> > Previously I was using the JMicron JM20336 USB-SATA bridge. > > Now I have the JM20329, apparently a simpler (and slower) chip. > > The BH08LS20 drive connected via USB 2.0, using blank BD-R disc > Cdrecord will be changed to work-around the firmware bug Tested last night with cdrtools a77 ve

Re: CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN CDB: not harmless?

2009-12-08 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, me: Such a message is rarely harmless. Jens: Well, that's what I thought, but Andy Polyakov commented here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/msg12106.html Oh indeed. Now i remember. I stepped into that puddle previously. So fo

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-30 Thread Rob W
> > I believe it was the JMicron USB-SATA bridge > > JM20329 versus JM20336 > Did it have positive effect on Solaris machine? Yes, only windows has a good driver for JM20336 So cdrecord will work after Jörg prepares his workaround for the LG drive firmware bug. :-D > > To use SRM with no spares

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-26 Thread Rob W
Just wanted to follow up with more experimentation ... > Previously I was using the JMicron JM20336 USB-SATA bridge. > Now I have the JM20329, apparently a simpler (and slower) chip. > The BH08LS20 drive connected via USB 2.0, using blank BD-R disc. Using this drive connected to my CentOS machine

Re: Looking for porting account on AIX and others

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi, the next final release for cdrtools is close and I am of course interested in giving the best possible. I unfortunately did not have access to some pf the supported platforms for a long time and it seems that AIX may be the most important platform from this list. Is

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-15 Thread Rob W
Jörg, thank you for looking at this problem again. > Please send the output from cdrecord -minfo and cdrecord -atip # cdrecord dev=5,0,0 -minfo Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a61 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10) scsidev: '5,0,0' scsibus: 5 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using USCSI interface. Using libscg

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-14 Thread Rob W
> Do you still have problems with cdrecord on Solaris ? Thank you for asking Jörg. Today I made some progress. Sorry I have not had time to look at the USB driver bug. Previously I was using the JMicron JM20336 USB-SATA bridge. Now I have the JM20329, apparently a simpler (and slower) chip. The BH

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-13 Thread Rob W
>>> The iso file has size of 15635996672 bytes >> Can you read all 7634768 blocks? > Wow, dd is really slow # date Tue Oct 13 16:18:12 EDT 2009 # dd bs=2048 if=/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s0 of=/dev/null 11826176+0 records in 11826176+0 records out # date # Tue Oct 13 17:43:11 EDT 2009 That would be 242200084

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-13 Thread Rob W
> USB1 full-speed is 12Mbps or 1.5MBps, right? I am using USB 2.0 ports - 480 Mbps or 60 MBps. Burning DVDs on the Plextor PX-716UF drive using cdrecord from my Solaris10 (sparc) machine is pretty fast.

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-13 Thread Rob W
Thank you Thomas for suggesting things to try. > ... spoil your joy of success Let us not digress too much - remember my definition of success: # cdrecord dev=3,0,0 speed=2 driveropts=burnfree image.iso >>> try to burn it via growisofs >> I have no idea how long it took > Probably rather 4 to 5 h

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-13 Thread Rob W
>> try to burn it via growisofs > Seems to be working for growisofs > started it tonight with a 15+ GB iso Checked it this morning, seems to have finished, and I have no idea how long it took. The iso file has size of 15635996672 bytes. 15577645056/15635996672 (99.6%) @0.3x, remaining 1:05 RBU 10

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-12 Thread Rob W
> try to burn it via growisofs Seems to be working for growisofs. I started it tonight with a 15+ GB iso file. Will follow up with error messages, if any. Got to go now ... # growisofs -Z /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0=image.iso Executing 'builtin_dd if=image.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0 obs=32k seek=0' /dev/rd

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-09 Thread Rob W
>> Will dvd+rw-mediainfo work on solaris 10 (sparc) ? > you ought to use character-type device entry OK, it looks like it worked, and the results are below However, cdrecord -minfo still reports End Addr = -1 Maybe I have some installation problems solaris10 came with an older version of cdrecord

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-07 Thread Rob W
Thanks again Jörg. I have not given up on solaris yet. > > Here are the errors I see with cdrecord -atip ... > In this case ... is not related to the media but to the USB drivers > This is a Solaris USB kernel driver bug ... Do you remember the bug tracking ID so I can look at it? Perhaps someone

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-07 Thread Rob W
> > Will dvd+rw-mediainfo work on solaris 10 (sparc) ? > It hasn't been tested on SPARC Solaris 10, but ... Andy, thank you for your helpful suggestions. Unfortunately, I could not get dvd+rw-mediainfo to work. It fails on one of the ioctl() calls in Scsi_Command::associate() # dvd+rw-mediainfo /

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-05 Thread Rob W
Thomas, thank you for suggesting dvd+rw-tools-7.1 Will dvd+rw-mediainfo work on solaris 10 (sparc) ? I am definitely interested in the capabilities of growisofs. Hope to try it soon - if not solaris, then on linux. > Do you get a different -minfo output from a BD-R > which never was involved in a

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-05 Thread Rob W
Jörg, thank you for answering the formatting question. Note that my blu-ray drive is connected to my system via USB 2.0 I do not understand why DMA settings may be a problem for cdrecord. With cdrecord I can write to DVD (Plextor PX-716UF) over USB 2.0 Memorex (actually RITEK) is definitely not t

solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-01 Thread Rob W
Trying to burn ISO9660 image to blu-ray disc, and not having much luck. Any help on how to do this on solaris 10 using cdrecord would be appreciated. I noticed some discussion about formatting BD-R discs. Do I have to format new discs before using cdrecord? If so, how? My system is loaded with one

Re: ide-scsi -> write_g1: scsi sendcmd: fatal error

2009-05-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus wrote: Unsupported, undocumented, self-written, run as root... for problems any method which provides useful information is appropriate. This is not I am sorry to see that you seem to be interested to further increase the confusion. Let me try to

Re: ide-scsi -> write_g1: scsi sendcmd: fatal error

2009-05-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: cdrecord -scanbus Full record. Something like this ? scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S203B ' 'SB00' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * .. (This is a SATA attached drive. It appears as SC

Re: ide-scsi -> write_g1: scsi sendcmd: fatal error

2009-05-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: Hi, Fog_Watch: cdrecord using ide-scsi returns an error that I don't understand. ... cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl. Joerg Schilling: This is a Linux kernel problem, please ask the rel

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-02-03 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Joerg Schilling wrote: If a burner does not like some media, cdrecord usually prints a related SCSI error message. There was no such message in the log send to this list. Parker Jones wrote: Track 01:0 of 4391 MB written.Errno: 5 (Input/output error),

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: >From zoubi...@hotmail.com Fri Jan 30 21:07:19 2009 You did not install cdrecord correctly as you see from this messages. Cdrecord needs to be installed suid root in order to be able to open all needed devices and in order to send all needed SCSI commands. When ar

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Norbert Preining wrote: On Fr, 30 Jan 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: that are responsible for introducing various bugs and license violations call themself "Debian packet maintainer". Stop talking nonsense and lies on a debian list, or I will try to get you banned from that list. Wh

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, There always was only one cdrecord source code since it's creation in late 1995. The first DVD support code was added in February 1998 but could not be made OpenSource due to an NDA. Anyway, the DVD support in cdrecord code became OpenSource long before the fork "

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: Hi, The fork (when started in september 2006) removed the original DVD code and replaced it by something that does not work. I have no idea why the initiators of the fork replaced working code... To my observation the timeline w

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Parker Jones wrote: Hi Thomas, > It is advisable to use a different program > for DVD purposes. E.g: > growisofs, cdrecord, cdrskin, xorriso. > (I am author of the latter two.) > > DVD+RW should be simply writeable via their > device file. Try: > > dd if=newworld.iso bs=2048 of=/dev/dvd > > Mayb

Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Dave Platt wrote: Unfortunately, determining the end-of-data (end-of-track) location on a data CD is one of those things which is difficult-to-impossible to do reliably. This is actually a matter of the device driver and not so much of drive and media. The si

Re: What does this error mean ?

2008-12-23 Thread Rob Bogus
Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello, How about telling us which software you used and which OS? And if you use something called "cdrecord" is it the version from the author, or the fake some Linux distributions include which is confusingly called by the same name, so scripts would use their softwa

Re: cdrtools-2.01.01a42 ready

2008-07-24 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]): - Fixed array index overrun in L1 coder. Thanks to Heiko Eißfeldt. The problem was reported by the coverity test. Note th

Re: cdrtools-2.01.01a42 ready

2008-07-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: NEW features of cdrtools-2.01.01a42: *** NOTE: cdrtools is currently in a state just before a new major release. *** All: Libschily: Libparanoia (Ported/enhanced by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Sc

Re: RSCSI and the 2.6 kernel?

2008-06-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Fog_Watch wrote: Hello, I would like to burn from my client to my server. I used to be able to when the server was kernel 2.4, but it's changed recently to 2.6. The client refers to the burner as /dev/hda, but the server refers to it as /dev/hdb. There is clearly something wonky going on here.

Re: WRITE@LBA=3e0c30h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error (DL)

2008-05-19 Thread Rob Bogus
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: If you get a write error, this is an incompatibility of the drive and the medium. That is likely to be true, but I was able to avoid this behavior with manual layer break. Maybe it's what

Re: WRITE@LBA=3e0c30h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error (DL)

2008-05-15 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, I would like to just try to burn one big file into a DVD+R DL (about 8Gb), what command using cdrskin would you recommend ? In general it should work on DVD with the same options as cdrecord accepts for DVD and some options known from cdrecord with CD. Well,

Re: WRITE@LBA=3e0c30h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error (DL)

2008-05-15 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:20:31PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I asume that cdrecord works also? If you speak about single layer DVD, yes, cdrecord works just perfectly :-) But if we speak about DVD+R DL no it

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, What is it with desire to bypass defect management? I mean I can perfectly understand Thomas's curiosity, but why would end-user such as Giulio want it off? I can squeeze some scenarios out of my phantasy. Like: 1 hour 40 minutes is too long for a backup win

Re: Blanking/Formating a BD-RE

2008-02-22 Thread Rob Bogus
Arnold Maderthaner wrote: Hi ! I applied the patch and now I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./cdrecord dev=3,0,0 blank=all Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a37 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 J?rg Schilling scsidev: '3,0,0' scsibus: 3 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver v

Re: Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

2008-02-13 Thread Rob Bogus
Eric Wanchic wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: With program cdrskin these options would do multi-session resp. leave the media appendable. cdrskin (i am its author): http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html Source tarball http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin-0.4.2.pl00.tar.gz Instal

Re: [dvd+rw-tools] problem erasing DVD+RW

2008-02-13 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, on_: I'm having problems with a few of my DVD+RW, after only 1 to 3 burn Joerg Schilling: To erase, use a _recent_ cdrecord and call "cdrecord blank=fast" Now i am curious what SCSI commands you issue on a DVD+RW for blanking it fast. The sou

Re: Dual-Layer DVD Burn Failure

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my reality running multiple commands and copying the cryptic numbers output by one into the command string of another and then creating an iso to be used by a third is a lot harder than one simple giving the device nam

Re: Dual-Layer DVD Burn Failure

2008-01-13 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I never had the need to try growisofs besides cdrecord Cdrecord does all I need (CD/DVD/BluRay) in a single program. It may do all you need, but growisofs is vastly easier to use for multiple sessions. It

Re: Dual-Layer DVD Burn Failure

2008-01-13 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is one of the rare times I would agree with Joerg that trying cdrecord is desirable, even though there may be a need to create a huge ISO image and burn from that. I have not had a problem with either program, but w

Re: Dual-Layer DVD Burn Failure

2008-01-10 Thread Rob Bogus
CJ Kucera wrote: Hello - I'm having some issues burning a dual-layer DVD. Yesterday I burnt my last DVD+R DL disc (Memorex 2.4x) so I got another pack of essentially the same, though this was rated at 8x. It looks like that's the one difference between the two packs of discs. Now, whenever I t

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Wodim does not support writing DVDs. The existence of half baken code does not proof usability. Oh please... AKAIK it's the only way to write udf DVD under linux now. Under gentoo I can't easyly hav

Could someone turn the bozo filter back on?

2007-12-24 Thread Rob Bogus
Was the filter for crap turned off deliberately, or ??? In any case a Merry Christmas or seasonal holiday to all the real users of the list. I'm happy to report that I finally got the SVCD creation under Linux going, and have been knocking out various projects for non-profits as a result. Unfo

Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?

2007-10-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I have a debian box and a Lite-On SHM-165PS cd/dvd drive. I'm having a devil of a time burning bootable DVDs - they seem to burn, be readable, but when I try to boot, the system crunches a bit, the drive lite flashes, then boots from the hard drive. (It boots

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-10 Thread Rob Bogus
Joe MacDonald wrote: I've seen a couple of discussions about similar problems to mine with different models (the H30N seemed to be a hot topic about six weeks ago) but I haven't seen any suggestions that make things work (or at least point to a cause of the failure) for me. First, the facts.

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't work in most readers. You used growisofs, i assume. Afaik it does not close DVD+R even if option -dvd-compat or -dvd-video is given. Seems Andy Polyakov had some bad feedback about closed DVD+R. I don't know

Re: VCD

2007-07-29 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, How about if I just try a burn with raw96r and see if that works? Worth a try. But man cdrecord says: " -raw Set RAW writing mode. Using this option defaults to -raw96r" So probably you canno

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But reading wodim's source for write-mode detection i have to conclude that hald would have to _reliably_ sabotage at least half a dozen consequtive attempts to set the write parameters by mode page 05h. If this part o

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Vladimir Nadvornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 27 July 2007 12:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Vladimir Nadvornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, It might be this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413960 (LG drive on /dev/sg) It i

Re: Unidentified subject!

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recommend you to read the documentation from cdrtools to learn that your claim is not true: cdrecord of course can burn from a pipe. To be more correct, cdrecord can not burn from a pipe with anything useful writi

Re: growisofs WRITE@LBA=230540h error blanking DVD+RW media

2007-07-09 Thread Rob Bogus
BitBucket wrote: Thomas Schimitt has it right -- the LBA=230540h is 2,295,104 decimal, which is the total number of blocks on the DVD+RW medial Since the LBA addressing starts from zero, an attempt to address that block is trying to address on past the last LBA block on the DVD. (I originally

Re: cdrecord-2.01.01a21 refuses work on Linux 2.4 if non-ide-scsi DVD-ROM is present

2006-11-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, update and probably final report about the setuid problem on SuSE 9.3 : Joerg was right: with setuid bit the program is not running as "root" but geteuid() returns the UID of the previous owner of the file "thomas". The problem seems bou

Re: dvd+rw-tools: DVD-RW discs are burned as "protected" on LG GSA-4163B

2006-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Piotr Paw³ow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have a problem with burning DVD-Video on a DVD-RW media. Burned discs won't play on most software and hardware players. While it plays in Windows Media Player, it won't play in VLC on Windows, neither VLC or Xine or Mpl

Re: problem with dvd-rw on Plextor PX-704A

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3- Only if I use dvdrecord I can blank the dvd, but if I do it in fast mode, gnomebaker gives me this error if I attempt a new burning: "dvdrecord" does not exist Please stop assuming that everything you didn't write i

Re: mkisofs bug? creating cdrom image for bulk files with -old-root -> enter infinite loop?

2006-09-23 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: å¼ é?¡æ­¦ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Further report in case it is helpful for debugging it: Because I am a bit in hurry (now is 23:55, better finish today's backup before 00:00) I tried to issue command to mkisofs replacing '-M /dev/hdd' with '-M /tmp/first.iso' wher

Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling

2006-09-05 Thread Rob Bogus
It appears that Debian has become disenchanted with Jorg... I'm sorry it had to happen, but presumably there will now be a burning program which makes an effort to work with the reality of the kernel and not just tell everyone they are doing it wrong. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06

Re: In defense of TAO

2006-08-14 Thread Rob Bogus
bill wrote: I understand that the author of cdrecord is considering dropping support for TAO ? I would like support for TAO to continue based on the following arguments. Most newer units support TAO Overwrite for CD-RWs if there is only one track/session recorded ( the case at least for me whe

Re: Problems when writing DVDs with growisofs

2006-07-06 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I did a blockdev --setra 8 /dev/hdd as root ( 8*512 byte = 4k ). Unfortunately the problem remains the same. It is necesssary to first test whether you're running into said kernel bug, before considering other possibilities. For this, you will need to set read-ahea

Re: Repeatability of mkisofs?

2006-05-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Old versions put command line info in the image, creation date is preobably there, and quite likely the atime has changed on parts. I use "sumdir" to embed md5sums in the directory(s). Old versions did not

Re: Repeatability of mkisofs?

2006-05-06 Thread Rob Bogus
Michael Shell wrote: I've got an interesting one. I keep track of the md5sums of all the images I burn. Now, it just so happened that I had deleted an image file that I later needed. So, I rebuilt a new image via mkisofs from the exact same directory structure used to create the old image. Now,

Re: startsec problem?

2006-04-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alexey Toptygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alexey Toptygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I have built cdrecord from this source: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/cdrtools-2.01.tar.bz2 and I have changed t

Re: [SPAM] Re: growisofs 6.1 fails to allocate shared memory beyond 16m

2006-04-23 Thread Rob Bogus
Robert Demski wrote: growisofs ... -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:16M ... I run with growisofs ... -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:8M ... It's a great program, but personally I find that the cuteness of "-use-the-force-luke" faded LONG ago! -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good

Re: Burning Problem

2006-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Dan Smythe wrote: I am using growisofs on OpenBSD 3.8. I am using a USB DVD burner that only averages .3x speed. My DVDs always burn fine if I am using a DVD+R or DVD-R that goes from 1-4x. However, when I use the new 1-8x DVDs, it always seems to burn fine, but I can't copy the information or

Re: mkisofs gives 'file too large for defined data type' error on 4.3GB file

2006-02-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi, How can I write a single file to a DVD+R(W)? I tried to use mkisofs's -stream-media-size 2291000 option (2291000 giving me just under the DVD's full capacity), but it would not work (after 500MB, it would stop reading standard input.) Buggy to say the least. I

Re: Plextor PX-750A/DVD+R/DVD+RW/growisofs

2006-02-21 Thread Rob Bogus
David Jobet wrote: Hello, I've ran into problems burning DVD with growisofs. As a summary : * growisofs DVD+R : works but at 0.5X (instead of 16X) * growisofs DVD+RW : fail with message --- :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type :-( media is not formatted

Re: dvd+rw-tools update [6.0, DVD-R DL]

2006-01-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My belief is that if O_DIRECT is in the kernel headers it works. I would love to have time to test timing of O_DIRECT on (a) disk, (b) partition, (c) file on disk, and alignment on minimal vs. page size boundaries. Doing O_DI

Re: PX-716SA growisofs won't write DVD

2005-10-02 Thread Rob Bogus
Steve Adeff wrote: updated to 2.6.13 kernel (was using 2.6.11) and now the drive will burn the three media types I couldn't before. I'm surprised, but great. Glad you found a solution. Steve On Friday 30 September 2005 23:11, Rob Bogus wrote: Steve Adeff wrote:

Re: PX-716SA growisofs won't write DVD

2005-09-30 Thread Rob Bogus
September 2005 10:01, Rob Bogus wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Robert, with the media that previously failed to write: # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd1 INQUIRY:[PLEXTOR ][DVDR PX-716A ][1.06] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID:

Re: PX-716SA growisofs won't write DVD

2005-09-17 Thread Rob Bogus
Steve Adeff wrote: Robert, with the media that previously failed to write: # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd1 INQUIRY:[PLEXTOR ][DVDR PX-716A ][1.06] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID: CMC MAG/E01 Current Write Speed: 8.0x1385=11

Re: PX-716SA growisofs won't write DVD

2005-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Steve Adeff wrote: drive is a SATA drive that works fine for CDR's. growisofs -Z /dev/dvd1=file.ISO Executing 'builtin_dd if=file.ISO of=/dev/dvd1 obs=32k seek=0' /dev/dvd1: "Current Write Speed" is 8.2x1385KBps. 32768/4008509440 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 14271:43 32768/4008509440 ( 0.0

Re: What is the failure here when growisofs'ing a new disk?

2005-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
David Bullock wrote: Hi folks, I'm wondering if someone would characterise my growisofs problem for me, since I am not making much of the diagnostic output. What's going on here? First up, some background on the system, in case it's relevant (sorry about not using Debian!): arwen# uname -

Re: CLOSE SESSION failed on DVD+R only

2005-09-05 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Thomas, Op 23 Aug 05 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED] aan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s> i just see that you considered to try other s> media but had no opportunity up to now. Alas, using different media did not help a lot :( At this point I suspect firmware. -- E. Robert B

Re: cdrecord doesn't appear to support high speed media (4x-12x)

2005-06-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE and I have a Toshiba SD-R5002 (DVD-RW) but I'm using it to create a CD. High speed media, i.e., Memorex 4x-12x doesn't generate any error messages until I try to mount it. Memorex 1x-4x media works fine. I even tried speed=4 with cdrec

Re: Is there a way to backup large file ?

2005-05-26 Thread Rob Bogus
Grégoire Favre wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and you have to expect operating systems where the ISO filesystem driver cannot cope with >2GB ? How about a raw 1:1 copy on DVD media then ? Like growisofs ... -Z /dev/sr0=/my/mpeg.mpg

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Re: support for dual-layer dvds?

2005-04-30 Thread Rob Bogus
Geoffrey wrote: I've been googling around and such, but can't find anything on this. Is there support for burning dual-layer dvds? I'm running SuSE 9.2 and Red Hat Workstation 4. Pointers to any docs would be appreciated. Seeing no reply after all this time I assume you're on your own. -- E. R

Re: Speed problems with PX-716A

2005-01-29 Thread Rob Bogus
Roberto Sebastiano wrote: I sent two mails in the past on this list about recording speed problems. I repost it here .. Hi, I have a NEC 3500 Dvd Writer. I have problems with the recording speed. I tried two different brand of dvd-r (one from princo that is certified for 4x recording, and one from

Re: Speed problems with PX-716A

2005-01-29 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: If you did not use cdrecord-ProDVD in the first case, then you did not use cdrecord but a hacked command that is NOT cdrecord. Do not expect any help for bastardized cdrecord variants here. Jörg Put a sock in it! This mailing list is not reserved to your personal private

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-12-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, I'll put them on a web site and send them off to a few vendors who have their own version anyway. That way you won't have to worry about losing it. It looks as if using a trailing dot will be more natural: Ex:

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-11-26 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If that's what you want "-graft-points var.www.1=/var/www/1" (you will need options for having multiple dots). And what I said works, at least here, "-graft-points /var/www/1=/var/www/1" preserves ever

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-11-20 Thread Rob Bogus
_N4R3N_ wrote: hi all If i have a dir named /var/www/1.If i make an image using mkisofs with common options and write it on a cd I will see a copy of directory '1' on a cd . But i want to preserve the entire path such that the directory i m going to get should have the name 'var.www.1' P

Re: give me the command to write DVD to DVD directly

2004-11-11 Thread Rob Bogus
robinboby . wrote: hai , i have to take a copy of one DVD using dvdrecord command my DVD write is SONY DVD RW secdary Master and one samsung DVD R Secondary Slave let me know how to take a copy of DVD directly (DVD to DVD copy) with creating an image to disc... i try with this is the detaisl wh

Re: :-( allocation length isn't sane

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Bogus
Carsten Neumann wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Wayne Topa wrote: Carsten Neumann([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, RonGroen wrote: Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Conten

Re: Need help splitting a directory

2004-10-21 Thread Rob Bogus
_N4R3N_ wrote: hi I want to split a directory in to two sub directories If my home dir is 1000 Mb I can't write it completely on one cd So i want to split it in to two directories namely 1)naren.bak.1 2)naren.bak.2 so that my /home/naren directory will be split in to two temporary directories ..

Re: blank=all only works in isolation

2004-10-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Ambrose Li wrote: I'd disagree about its validity. Blanking a CDRW disc before writing sounded reasonable enough to me. I always thought that it didn't work because Linux was buggy. (About my "Linux was buggy" comment: I started noticing this after mounting HFS CDROM's started causing kernel panic

Re: dvd+rw-tools Write Error

2004-10-20 Thread Rob Bogus
Bikrant Neupane wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 18:07, Rob Bogus wrote: Bikrant Neupane wrote: Hi, I have been using dvd+rw-tool for writing data in dvds for more than 7-8 months without any problem. I am running Red Hat Linux 7.2 with 2.4.24. I have no problem

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