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Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling wrote: > The data needed to identify a specific UDF session does not > fit into 32 sectors. For now the trick is explicitely restricted to ISO 9660 images (i.e. with Volume Descriptors as of ECMA-119). If libisofs ever supports UDF and especially the Bridge Format which is ve

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > me: > > > So with a BD-R +POW with first ISO-session written > > > with 32 sector offset and LBA-0-patching one would > > > get a Table Of Content as follows: > Joerg Schilling: > > As I mentioned before, 2 sectors is not enough. > > I assume

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: > > So with a BD-R +POW with first ISO-session written > > with 32 sector offset and LBA-0-patching one would > > get a Table Of Content as follows: Joerg Schilling: > As I mentioned before, 2 sectors is not enough. I assume you meant 32, not "2". Ok. But what data other than the first 3

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > me: > > > "A SRM disc with POW shall be initialized by > > > the formatting process as a single session disc with > > > a single Logical Track." > Andy Polyakov: > > It only says how it should be *initially* formatted, > > but says nothing ab

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Customer Service
I'm trying not to throw away *too* many of these darn expensive discs. Hey. Your boss could afford a BD burner two years ago ! It must have cost a little fortune. ;) That may be, but it is still painful to me to be tossing these babies in the rubbish bin! :'( Matt Schulte Commtech, Inc. Voi

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: > > "A SRM disc with POW shall be initialized by > > the formatting process as a single session disc with > > a single Logical Track." Andy Polyakov: > It only says how it should be *initially* formatted, > but says nothing about that it shall stay that way for eternity. Ahum. Sounds re

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Andy Polyakov
SRM+POW recordings are *not*. SRM+POW recordings are multi-track, but not multi-session. Meaning that even multi-session aware OS will look for volume descriptor at LBA#16 for SRM+POW recording. [...] I leave session open in SRM+POW [...] appropriate to refer to recording as "increment", not "sess

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > This is a bad advise as it will not work with UDF enabled. Good point. growisofs should watch out for that mkisofs option before deciding to do the 32 sector life saver offset. > BTW: The reason why I call the "multi-session" method used by growisofs > a dirty trick is because it destroy

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
rogrammers have decided to forget about the MMC prescription and to feed POW by spares and not by orphans ?i It seem so much more natural. Just not as usable for bulk overwrites. --- > > export MKISOFS="xorrisofs" > > to lift the ban on options like "-outdev&quo

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you leave the track open ? > I assumed you fork a new track, write the > session, use POW to patch LBA 0 to 31 and > then close the track. > (I did not examine growisofs.c for that, > i have to confess.) > > > > With overwriteables i write the first

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-26 Thread Andy Polyakov
It's just that last- and first-session mounts will be equivalent. Apparently we have to rewind the discussion a bit, because there is one thing I said/implied that was *wrong*. Sorry. Rewind backwards to the question about if BD-R is like DVD+R. I said "yes, with POW twist" and then discussi

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > It would appear that dvd+rw-format has never been able to format a BD-R > That would mean that when I did it the last time, I used growisofs which > itself performs a format Still questionable whether there is enough difference between both FORMAT commands to explain the difference in succ

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Unfortunately it has been about two years since I created this disc. Did you test whether your burner is still able to format a BD-R to default spare size ? No, I haven't done it again, I'm trying not to throw away *too* many of these darn expensive discs. It would app

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > It's just that last- and first-session mounts will be > equivalent. Yes. And thus the real first session will not be mountable because its volume descriptors are overwritten. > First session effectively grows and it has nothing to do with drive > recognizing multi-session. So you leave th

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: He used a very old cdrecord to read the data and for this reason, the mail did not include all information My cdrecord reports that it is build 2.01.01a33. The latest version is a53

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Polyakov
> But doesn't the POW gesture make session 1 > unmountable as soon as a further session > is recorded ? ??? Why should it? It's just that last- and first-session mounts will be equivalent. > Even on a drive which would recognize and > handle multi-session ? First session effectively grows and it

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > It is as if > it burned up to the scratch, hopped over it, and started burning again. Eww. Do we know how Logical Block Addresses map to real dye spots geometrically ? That's not in MMC. Unless one could assume that the "Physical Adresses" really form a simple chain of media imprints. But i

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Matt Schulte wrote: I don't mean to say that it located the bad spot before hand. I understood your report of yesterday that there is a visible difference on the surface of the recorded media caused by the scratch. (Like a ring of different reflectivity or so.) This

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Yes, but with optional +POW twist (see my Blu-ray page). Plus the code of your tools :)) But doesn't the POW gesture make session 1 unmountable as soon as a further session is recorded ? Even on a drive which would recognize and handle multi-session ? Accessing older sessions is helpful w

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Is my impression right that their sequential > personality is much like DVD+R ? Yes, but with optional +POW twist (see my Blu-ray page). > My understanding from specs is that it is Defect > Management. I.e. the drive will write a portion > of its buffer to media. Then it will checkread as > lon

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Matt Schulte wrote: > I don't mean to say that it located the > bad spot before hand. I understood your report of yesterday that there is a visible difference on the surface of the recorded media caused by the scratch. (Like a ring of different reflectivity or so.) This would have indicated

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Matt Schulte
Andy: I sent you a couple of messages off the list, did you get them? Matt Schulte Commtech, Inc. Voice: 316-636-1131 Fax: 316-636-1163 http://www.commtech-fastcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > He used a very old cdrecord to read the data and for this reason, > > the mail did not include all information > My cdrecord reports that it is build 2.01.01a33. The latest version is a53. a33 is from August 2007 Jörg --

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: My understanding from specs is that it is Defect Management. I.e. the drive will write a portion of its buffer to media. Then it will checkread as long as the data is still in the buffer. If a read error occurs, then it will take relocation measures and write the content aga

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: The way I understand the problem, you will not get benefits from setting up spare areas for a BD-R that is written in a single shot. Jörg That would be the wrong way to look at the problem. If you burn in the mode that is "Live Verify" it will absolutely make a differ

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: He used a very old cdrecord to read the data and for this reason, the mail did not include all information My cdrecord reports that it is build 2.01.01a33. Exactly what version do you think I should be using? Matt Schulte Commtech, Inc. Voice: 316-636-1131 Fax: 316-636-1

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Indeed. I was not aware of that. Did you post the "READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:" of a dvd+rw-mediainfo run on such a media ? NO, but if you'd like to see it, here it is. Matt Schulte Commtech, Inc. Voice: 316-636-1131 Fax: 316-636-1163 http://www.commtech-fastcom.com INQUIRY:

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: maybe you missed the _point_ of the riddle Indeed. I was not aware of that. Did you post the "READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:" He used a very old cdrecord to read the data and for this reason, the mail did not include all information That may be, but it also did not

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Polyakov wrote: > BD-R[E] format capacity descriptors are more like guidelines. > Specification permits you to specify any value between minimum and maximum > ... > Indeed, here is output for media formatted with -ssa=4G: Thanks for the info. It will be very interesting to explore BD-R a

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Polyakov
Releases turned to be feature driven lately and as no new features were required (e.g. HD-DVD was dismissed) I had no immediate plans so far. But as option to specify TDMA allocation is of apparent interest, it might be appropriate to consider release in foreseeable future, i.e. from week to month

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Polyakov
When it is finished you can definitely tell where the burn approached the scratch and kind of skipped over it and moved to the next viable area. Interesting. How did it know in advance where the bad sectors are before trying to write to them ? But how did you manage to engage Defect Management ?

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Polyakov
maybe you missed the _point_ of the riddle Indeed. I was not aware of that. Did you post the "READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:" of a dvd+rw-mediainfo run on such a media ? I remember to have seen some which report "unformatted" as state and offer some formatting descriptors. (None with 4 GB, though.)

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > maybe you missed the _point_ of the riddle > > Indeed. I was not aware of that. > Did you post the "READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:" He used a very old cdrecord to read the data and for this reason, the mail did not include all information. Jörg -

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > When it is finished you can definitely tell where the burn approached the > > scratch and kind of skipped over it and moved to the next viable area. > > Interesting. How did it know in advance where the > bad sectors are before trying to writ

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > maybe you missed the _point_ of the riddle Indeed. I was not aware of that. Did you post the "READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:" of a dvd+rw-mediainfo run on such a media ? I remember to have seen some which report "unformatted" as state and offer some formatting descriptors. (None with 4 GB, though

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > When it is finished you can definitely tell where the burn approached the > scratch and kind of skipped over it and moved to the next viable area. Interesting. How did it know in advance where the bad sectors are before trying to write to them ? But how did you manage to engage Defect Mana

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, When it is finished you can definitely tell where the burn approached the scratch and kind of skipped over it and moved to the next viable area. Interesting. How did it know in advance where the bad sectors are before trying to write to them ? But how did you manage

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: As for Matt's idea with the scratch demo: I have DVDs which look like an ice stadium and they work perfectly. Others have no scratch and they failed to verify after one or two burns. One can hardly drill holes without endangering the drive. But how about a few dots with a b

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Andy Polyakov wrote: Releases turned to be feature driven lately and as no new features were required (e.g. HD-DVD was dismissed) I had no immediate plans so far. But as option to specify TDMA allocation is of apparent interest, it might be appropriate to consider release in foreseeable future, i

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Polyakov wrote: > The real problem is that we don't > know how TDMA is used exactly To be heretic: Did anybody see Defect Management work with any type of media (MRW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE, BD-R) in a way that is not worse than a plain bad block ? My experience is with DVD-RAM and there the a

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Andy Polyakov
>> The source code change mentioned in originating post is correct and >> will be included [though in modified form] to next dvd+rw-tools update. > Great, any idea when you are planning your next release? Releases turned to be feature driven lately and as no new features were required (e.g. HD-DVD

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Andy Polyakov wrote: The source code change mentioned in originating post is correct and will be included [though in modified form] to next dvd+rw-tools update. Great, any idea when you are planning your next release? This I can't reproduce. In other words I managed to format BD-R disc with -ss

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: OK, thank you. BZW: it seems that the spare size if your other disk was not changed Yes, that is kind of the problem. dvd+rw-format doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. Matt Schulte Commtech, Inc. Voice: 316-636-1131 Fax: 316-636-1163 http://www.commtech-fastcom.

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: I assume you have disabled all automounters and similar programs which could access the drive. So this could come from the device driver trying to learn about the present media. In the embedded 2.4.32 install, there is no automounter. Nothing happens unless I explicitly ru

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-24 Thread Andy Polyakov
I am trying to make the spare area of a BD-R be something larger than the default. I was hoping to run something like: ./dvd+rw-format -ssa=4G /dev/dvd But when I execute this command, it says that it is invalid for the detected media. This is not intentional. In other words it's a bug and it

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is bullshit. If you write to the media as it was at that moment, it If you like to be taken for serious, it would be apropriate to use a less offensive language. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > OK, so this medium holds 200704 spare sectors. I am not sure whether this > > is the default or whether this is a result of a format call. > > > > BTW: Is this a Philips Medium? > > > > Jörg > > > Attached is the output of cd

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > That particular error message was being printed by a very pared down 2.4.32 That should be young enough to run the drive anyway. But my 2.4 kernels never reported errors directly to the user space terminal. The errors reported are probably due to the uninitialized status of the BD-R. > N

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: I can by no means find a potential origin of that message in dvd+rw-tools. Nor would my local Linux kernel print me these messages Did you already tell what operating system and version you use ? (I assume "sr0" is Linux That particular error message was being printed by a

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Andy Polyakov
>>> Sorry, please add a -v >>> this should give you the formatted capacity list in addition. >>> >> As you wish... >> >> I am not sure whether you guys like attachments or whether you want >> things inline, so I just attached it. > > > OK, so this medium holds 200704 spare sectors. This is bul

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > > sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 > > > Deferred sr00:00: sense key Medium Error > > This does not look as if it was from dvd+tools but > > rather from the kernel. Do you see that in a log file > This actually shows up in the log as well as on the terminal

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Customer Service
Thomas Schmitt wrote: ./dvd+rw-format -ssa=4G /dev/dvd But when I execute this command, it says that it is invalid for the detected media. || (mmc_profile != 0x12 && mmc_profile != 0x43 &&mmc_profile != 0x41 && ssa) ) After making the above change, it then gets past this portion If i get

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: OK, so this medium holds 200704 spare sectors. I am not sure whether this is the default or whether this is a result of a format call. BTW: Is this a Philips Medium? Jörg Attached is the output of cdrecord -v -minfo on a fresh-from-the-cellophane BD-R. Yes, these are

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, please add a -v > > this should give you the formatted capacity list in addition. > > > > Jörg > As you wish... > > I am not sure whether you guys like attachments or whether you want > things inline, so I just attached it. OK, so this med

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Can it be that the BD-R was already treated with a format command previously ? MMC-5 4.5.3.5 "BD-R Recording Models" says " Once the recording mode has been esta

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Customer Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > "Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Can it be that the BD-R was already treated with > >> a format command previously ? > >> MMC-5 4.5.3.5 "BD-R Recording Models" says > >> " Once the recording mode has been

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Customer Service
Andy Polyakov wrote: This is not intentional. In other words it's a bug and it will be looked into. Suggested code modification might be appropriate, but I'd rather not say it without double-checking. In a course of few days. Meanwhile please submit dvd+rw-mediainfo output (even garbled one you

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Customer Service
You indicated it's BDB2 firmware? Is it latest? We both know that there is BZE6 available for SW-5582. Do you know how they number their releases? For example is BZxx later than BDxx? What I'm implying firmware upgrade might be due to make it work with arbitrary ... Cheers. A. I completely forg

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Andy Polyakov
Hi, Matt! > I'm monkeying around with the blu-ray drives again (though now it is a > SATA interface) and I've come upon something that I don't quite > understand. > > I am trying to make the spare area of a BD-R be something larger than > the default. I was hoping to run something like: > > ./d

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: "Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can it be that the BD-R was already treated with a format command previously ? MMC-5 4.5.3.5 "BD-R Recording Models" says " Once the recording mode has been established, it is not changeable." This is why I asked him to run

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Customer Service
Joerg Schilling wrote: What does cdrecord -minfo show for this medium? Hello, I'm at a different email address, but it's still me. So here is the cdrecord -minfo output: Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a33 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'sc

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can it be that the BD-R was already treated with > a format command previously ? > MMC-5 4.5.3.5 "BD-R Recording Models" says > " Once the recording mode has been established, > it is not changeable." This is why I asked him to run cdrecord -minfo

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > ./dvd+rw-format -ssa=4G /dev/dvd > But when I execute this command, it says that it is invalid for the > detected media. > || (mmc_profile != 0x12 && mmc_profile != 0x43 &&mmc_profile != > 0x41 && ssa) ) > After making the above change, it then gets past this portion If i get the code

Re: BD-R formatting help

2008-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Matt Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm monkeying around with the blu-ray drives again (though now it is a > SATA interface) and I've come upon something that I don't quite > understand. What does cdrecord -minfo show for this medium? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schill

BD-R formatting help

2008-11-18 Thread Matt Schulte
I'm monkeying around with the blu-ray drives again (though now it is a SATA interface) and I've come upon something that I don't quite understand. I am trying to make the spare area of a BD-R be something larger than the default. I was hoping to run something like: ./dvd+rw-format -ssa=4G /dev/d

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

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eric Wanchic: > "BTW, I hope that is never the > case. That would really suck if I had to -eject the DVD and re-inject it > back into the drive everytime I did a backup :)" Urm ... how to say it ... hem, hem: Better -eject or use xorriso. - I made experiments on my SuSE 10.2 (one y

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

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dave Platt: > You could also try an ioctl with a code of BLKFLSBUF, I see this one in the code of growisofs. Will have to study. > CDROMRESET This one i will have to explore without growisofs guidance. > capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) and so might require superuser It might not be too large a cal

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

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Platt
Any bystander here who knows how to refresh the i/o cache of /dev/sr0 ? Best without the need to be superuser. :)) A quick look at the generic CD-ROM layer code in 2.6.24 suggests that issuing an ioctl with a code of CDROMRESET may very well do the job. This code path calls invalidate_bdev()

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

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > cdrskin dev=/dev/scd0 -v padsize=300k -multi -tao track_02.iso > ... > I finally unmount, eject the disc, re-inject the disc, remount and bingo: Good news: cdrskin works as it should. Intermezzo: growisofs would do about the same for you. You would have to talk it into using the mkisofs wh

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

2008-02-15 Thread Eric Wanchic
thanks for the info, as well as more clarification on the licensing issue. Since I am really concerned about creating multi-border (multi-session) DVD+R, I'm assuming that for now, until the code for burning multi-border DVDs are more stable, cdrecord won't be able to help me in that area?

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

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > MMC-5 4.3.6.2.2 Bill Davidsen: > Thanks, I saved that bit so I can quote it Overview of media and write types: CD-R[W] - Packet fixed. Could allow non-seamless writing without burn-proof. Used for formatted Mt.Rainier media which allow random access writing.

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

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Eric Wanchic: Looks Great ! TAO was executed. Rob Bogus: Thomas, perhaps you can clarify the SAO vs. TAO options and actual Actually it is a packet write type. "TAO" and "SAO" are rather aliases for a certain behavior as it is known from good old CD

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

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: > What do you understand by "not closed"? Again quoting from the description in MMC-5, 4.3.6.2.3 (Models, DVD, DVD+R): "If the user wishes to disallow further writing after the session is closed, it is possible to select a close function to finalize the disc." This is not d

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

2008-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > okscratch that. Test 4 was mountable but no output too. I moved out of > > my mounted directory and back into it again...files. I remounted Test > > 5...files. Thats strange. > > Ouchers. Either your drive or your operating > system is se

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

2008-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > There is nothing on the disk? I can mount it, but there is nothing there. > > Pitfall theory: > Did you eject it and load it again ? > Possibly the block device did not take notice > that there are data available now. Did you ever see the ne

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

2008-02-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > There exist several similar attempts on writing libraries for tasks that > cannot > exist on platorms other than Linux because other platforms better check > privileges/security. All these other libraries are derivates from cdrtools > code > and all

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Wanchic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, man all of you guys are awesome! Thanks. I'm still having issues, > Thomas Schmitt: > - I've got some more stuff, but as soon as I post this, I'll write > another one mentioning what I've done so far. Thanks (^_^) Please note that Thomas (in c

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
block device only for tunneling SCSI commands. But if the drive is confused, then this will hardly help. One clumsy remedy could be to write as first track at least one GB of dummy data to media. How about this for the first track: cdrskin dev=/dev/scd0 -v tsize=1000m \ -mult

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > There is nothing on the disk? I can mount it, but there is nothing there. Pitfall theory: Did you eject it and load it again ? Possibly the block device did not take notice that there are data available now. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Wanchic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/sdc1/raws# cdrskin dev=/dev/scd0 -v padsize=300k > -multi > -tao track_01.iso > cdrskin 0.4.2 : limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn > cdrskin: verbosity level : 1 > cdrskin: NOTE : greying out all drives besi

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eric Wanchic: > Looks Great ! TAO was executed. Rob Bogus: > Thomas, perhaps you can clarify the SAO vs. TAO options and actual Actually it is a packet write type. "TAO" and "SAO" are rather aliases for a certain behavior as it is known from good old CD media. With DVD+R there is only this

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

2008-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whined again and trolled: I think [1] is a hint, I bet you used a vendor hack of growisofs instead of downloading and building the real program from source. That doesn't mean I promise it will work for you, just that you know what you

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge: > that file, run ldconfig. (See "man ld.so" and "man ldconfig".) Eric Wanchic: > There nothing wrong with your auto-install, > [...] after all is done run the "ldconfig" command, Hrmpf. I would have expected ./configure to have recognized what is needed on the system. It is a

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

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Wanchic
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 Installation instructions:

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

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Wanchic
Oh, man all of you guys are awesome! Thanks. I'm still having issues, but I feel I have to apologize for not replying fast enough here (^_^). Thanks for all of your help. I don't know where to start, so I'm going to try and answer everyone on this post: Thomas Schmitt: Ther

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whined again and trolled: > > > I think [1] is a hint, I bet you used a vendor hack of growisofs instead > > of downloading and building the real program from source. That doesn't > > mean I promise it will work for y

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whined again and trolled: > I think [1] is a hint, I bet you used a vendor hack of growisofs instead > of downloading and building the real program from source. That doesn't > mean I promise it will work for you, just that you know what you have. > Oh, and it w

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
de. > 2. Sorry, I can't help you. I've never worked with multisession DVD +Rs. > 3. Why don't you try > http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite@other.debian.org/info.html. They > might be able to help you. Well, there is no project activity on "cdrkit" since May 6

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > cdrskin: error while loading shared libraries: libburn.so.4: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory Sigh, this is what i earn if i try to cope with dynamic libraries. The packagers want is so. As a shortcut, try the static 32 bit binary which is the only file in http

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

2008-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
at or -dvd-video. Reason 1: I read the man page and I did exactly what it stated, and it wasn't working for me. Please see my current posting (5 days old) on ubuntuforums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4288486 No body could really help me with this issue. But as you

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

2008-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Eric Wanchic wrote: Summarizing a Long story: I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy, and I've been working/researching for almost one week on how to create a multisession DVD+R for backing up. I've moved from growisofs to genisoimage to wodim, finally to cdrecord cdrecord 2.01.01a37. I manually installe

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

2008-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:21:48AM -0600, Eric Wanchic wrote: > Slight install issue :( I tried a simple command: cdrskin and recieved > this error: > > cdrskin: error while loading shared libraries: libburn.so.4: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory If this is on Linux,

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

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Wanchic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Summarizing a Long story: I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy, and I've been > working/researching for almost one week on how to create a multisession > DVD+R for backing up. I've moved from growisofs to genisoimage to wodim, genisoimage is extremely buggy and

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