Re: DVD+RW/+R for Linux update

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Monday 04 November 2002 13:49, Frank Hage wrote: On 2002.11.04, Joerg Schilling wrote: : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media. One advantage I find is the ability to burn directly from NFS mounted partitions. It's slow but it works well. I've got gobs and

Re: External USB CD writer

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Monday 06 January 2003 10:06, Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Mukta Telang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I want to know which External USB CD writers are compatible with Redhat7.2 linux and how to configure one.. Thanks in advance, Mukta USB on Linux is a pure disaster :-( Try it and check if

Re: cdrecord 2.0 kernel 2.5.x

2003-04-01 Thread Rob Bogus
On Saturday 11 January 2003 15:28, Casey Scott wrote: I am using kernel 2.5.56 currently, and cdrecord is behaving strangely. For example, when blanking a disk, the system because totally unresponsive until the blanking is complete. Also, when actually burning a disk, the system completely

Re: Burning speed

2003-06-04 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have a Teac CD-W552E, which claims to be 52x writer. I have FUJIFILM 700MB media, that claims to be 1-52x multispeed capable. However, cdrecord only records at 16x speed. Why is that? Can I do anything about it? Also, how can I use 2 ATAPI writers in one

Re: cdrecord copyed over recent nero copying

2003-06-18 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] samir aziz wrote: This command below destroyed another windows copy WHY /./cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -v -speed=4 cdimage.raw Cdrecord 1.11a03 (i386-pc-solaris2.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J#1616;rg Schillin= g TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,1,0' scsibus:

Re: problems burning DVD-Rs

2003-06-22 Thread Rob Bogus
Mike Devlin wrote: Hi, I am trying to burn a DVD-R using a TDK IndiDVD 440N on a Suse Linux 8.2 system. I can burn DVD+R's fine, but when I try to burn a DVD-R using cdrecord-ProDVD I get this error: fez:/archive # ./cdrecord-ProDVD -dao dev=1,0,0 -v filename.iso Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-28 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone who does not use Linux, I would say it is not the user's fault. When that bit is set, it means the first extent is Macintosh resource fork data. That bit was put into the standard specifically for that purpose. Linux should make it _extremely_ difficult to

Re: Overburn protection

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...only if you need to have your files read on a Linux system. For other situations, writing large files might be quite reasonable and you might need to switch to a tool that will write such files. If Linux tools are aimed only at readers that are unable to honor the full

Re: dvd+rw-tools problems

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Dan wrote: Hi Andy, thanks for the response The hue's changed, the disc looks pretty much full except for a small rim around the outside of the disc. Also dvd+r-tools won't let me burn over it again so that seems to notice that it's already been recorded on. I've tried the burned dvd's in my

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] As someone who does not use Linux, I would say it is not the user's fault. When that bit is set, it means the first extent is Macintosh resource fork data. That bit was put into the standard

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

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Bogus
Monty wrote: Hi folks, I've found a peculiar behavior in the 2.4.x series (using recent Linux SG 3.1.2x) that I have to fix one way or another. I've tried 2.4.20 as shipped by Debian and my hand-built 2.4.21. In short, I've put together an audio editing workstation to replace the aging

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom" and the added option "-clone" (sample output appended below). The files in the CDR, however,

Re: CDR gone bad....is there a fsck.iso9660?

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
The trick Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Not solving your current problems, but there are reportedly severe differences in longevity depending on the dye (and thus the brand of CD-R blanks). I saw a recommendation for Kodak, so I record backups onto Kodak and also at least one

Re: dvd multi-session

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Even if you manage to put one tar per session, how would you access the second tar? If you want to tar-format DVD media, multi-sessioning is not an option, isofs is the *only* working option for multi-sessioning. Sure wish mkisofs would take as input tar and/or cpio, or

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:22:37 -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=

Re: dump on CD (Linux only)

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, because the Linux kernel doesn't support multi-session and restore reads the raw device. What? Linux has supported multisession since 2.3.4! Now as to what restore does, can't say. I want my backups in iso9660 format in most cases, so I use mkshadow to

Re: Plextor PX-708A growisofs works great!

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Please! Could you submit output from 'dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd verbose' with DVD+RW media in unit? As already mentioned on the list the question I seek answer for is in what extent does the unit in question support Mt.Rainier specification. In order to spare the subscribers

Re: Compile against 2.6-test5

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cant seem to compile cdrecord against 2.60-test5! is this a known issue? (in the code below i'm in the libscg dir, that seems to be the root of all the other errors, such as -lscg not found).

Re: Liteon DVD+R/W

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw an advertisement for a really cheap Lite-On DVD+R/W/CD-R/W drive. Has anybody gotten such a drive to work? http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/english-product.htm http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/new_p_e/english--p-drw4412.htm The interesting product

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660 filesystem from a cd or dvd, I often get I/O errors within the last blocks of the filesystem. Using cat

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-08 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 05:09, Rob Bogus wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660

Re: Bad media?

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 20:28, Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello, a DVD burn ended like this: Track 01: 4387 of 4449 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 100%] 2.0x. See below. Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total

Re: Using readcd to read 3rd party discs

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: I guess this is a novice level question. I am planning to use readcd to read from a data CD/DVD. I understand that for discs written with -dao flag, readcd will read exact number of sectors, whereas for those written w/o -dao flag, readcd tries to read 2 sectors more than

How to get burner speed info

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there some way to get the speed capabilities of a drive? I've tried options like -atip, -prcap, and -checkdrive, and there doesn't seem to be a list of supported speeds available for human use. Since various media will result in a burn at some small number of speeds ignoring the speed=NN

Re: Extracting file system from an iso image

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: Once I have read an ISO9660 image with or without Joliet/Rockridge extns, is there a way to simply extract files, directory sturcture from it (analogous to tar extraction), without actually mounting the iso image? Is there a utility to do this? Let me ask the silly

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

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 24 05:28:44 2003 Each time I try to burn an Audio CD in DAO mode using Cdrecord and my QSI Combo CD-writer (I tried speed=4,8,12,16) I receive an error as the one in the attached file and the CD writing process fails with the waste of a

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 25 15:44:25 2003 What do you expect when you use low quality media on a low quality drive? I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been having problems

Re: DVDs created with too large files

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size, as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB. Careful - the comment was about

Re: Incorrect Mail set up please correct!

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:33:40PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I *had* asked not to be cc'ed for list postings, if you ignore that, you'll have to put up with the bounce. If that's so important to you, then you should configure your mail software to add the

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If you like to buy a single format writer, buy DVD-, it is standard has less readibility problems As you keep on propagating this nonsense (one might also call it FUD), for the record: DVD+ isn't any less standard than DVD-. Anyone can call themselves the standard.

Re: problems with xcdroast + ide-scsi

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
If you like to buy a single format writer obarrot wrote: Hi, I can't use my CD-ATAPI cdrom with xcdroast + the ide-scsi.o module I had to disable DMA on this CD drive as any operation on the device freezed totally the machine! now I can mount acccess this /dev/sg1 device ok but readcd does

Re: Why does cdrecord turn burnfree off by default?

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] The manpage of cdrecord says: The default is to turn BURN-Free off, regardless of the defaults of the drive. What is the rationale for doing that? Shouldn't burn-free be turned on by default, or at

Re: Write problems with unbranded DVD[+-]RW drive...

2003-11-26 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]MacArthur, Ian (UK) wrote: Hi Jörg, As this happens after 1 MB (= than the RAM size) it may be a buffer underrun. Check transfer speeds. It however looks like the drives does not like the medium. Call cdrecord -atip Hmm, I'm not sure - I managed

growisofs for cd-RW and DVD-RW?

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there a tool like growisofs which workds with CD-R and/or DVD-R? I have had no problem using cdrecord and dvdrecord, but growisofs looked like a convenient tool to reduce the effort of multisession. I have no problem with dvdrecord other than it seeming to use PIO instead of DMA for

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord writes in SAO mode so it needs to know the sizes. - Currently using the pipe-scheme mkisofs | cdrecord I would have to specify tsize, which I cannot do. So I cannot use the pipe but have to create an

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Florian Lindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something I did learn friday night by studying the Win32 binaries using strings on my Solaris machine... If you look close enough at the binaries you should be able to extract the firmware yourself. Well. I know

Re: New Lite-On 4X DVD plus/dash RW drive

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Clarence Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I was trying out my new Lite-On DVD writer this last weekend ( $80 after rebates at Best Buy ). With dvdrecord, it would not detect as a dvd, but only as a cd. It also gave me certain scsi command errors. Is this a

Re: cdrecord starts slow and speeds up later

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Markus Plail wrote: 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

Re: Spam from Gil Disatnik gil@disatnik.com

2003-12-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: I just received this: /*--*/ Hello, Due to the high amount of spam I am getting - I have to filter all incoming emails. The mail you have just sent is being held until you verify that you are a real

Interesting DVD behaviour

2003-12-05 Thread Rob Bogus
I have a Pioneer DVR-104 with a recent firmware upgrade. I note from the -prcap output that cdrecord identifies this as a 1X top speed drive. However, since I upgraded the firmware, growisofs burns with it at 2X (using 4X media). Would someone really sharp care to clarify how/why that happens?

Re: highest priority?

2003-12-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] It may be that you are hit by Linux ps missfeatures :-( And what are Linux ps missfeatures ? (I'm running cdrecord and cdda2wav on FreeBsd.) It ignores that

ide-scsi and 2.4 kernels

2003-12-13 Thread Rob Bogus
I saw a claim that recent versions of cdrecord could use the ATAPI interface added for 2.6 in 2.4 kernels. Has anyone actually found this to be the case? As of 2.01a19 it seems to think the unit needs power cycling and can't do any operations. Why do I care? I wanted to see if audio burning

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
James Finnall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg The drive appears to back to functioning once again. I had to reboot several times. I was able to do what I wanted to do though

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: May be the firmware of the drive is not very stable or Linux did hang. I would suspect the firmware first. I had a similar problem with my A104 before I upgraded the firmware, which doesn't prove it IS the firmware, but that firmware can cause just these problems.

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: PS: Andy, I guess I didn't make it clear in my original post but the system was kernel panicing. Since I never was at console all those times, I never had seen the actuall OOPs, but caps and scroll lock were flashing which told me it was a kernel panic. After your comment,

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: Given all this, My question is should I test out another IDE cable given how ide-scsi works but has issues and ide-cd is horribly slow, or does the behavior rule out it being the ide cable's fault? I can always try out another cable if someone thinks it'll help. Of course!

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: OK, requestor has reported that readcd performs at 2-3x accompanied by irresonsiveness of the system. This *does* appear as lack of DMA and it agrees pretty well with those reports from NEC users I mentioned yesterday. Yes, DMA must be off (or not being used on that

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.14.4.7.4 / BTC - sequence error

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Keep in mind that autofs daemon is not the only culprit. There're magicdev, supermount, who knows what else... If anybody can provide additional clues, I'll only be grateful:-) If I may offer a suggestion for a link on your useful description page, if there were a VERY short

CD booting question

2003-12-29 Thread Rob Bogus
I have been creating bootable (el torrito style) CDs since the capability was added to mkisofs ages ago. However, from time to time I find a system which doesn't know how to boot CD and must boot from floppy. With programs like Linux boot disks that's not a problem, one is included. My

Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready

2004-01-09 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: And this is definitely wrong! Unfortunately, Linux-2.6 did change iterfaces in a way so it is impossible to run all applications compiled under earlier releases. To avoid confusion you probably should say not all applications... will run since clearly you don't mean

Re: cdrecord and scsi-3 compliance

2004-01-09 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, portability in a quality as with my software takes a lot of effort. Speaking for cdrecord, the change not really needed as no writer uses something differnt from lun 0. Does this mean that if a real SCSI burner is used with a LUN of 0 it doesn't work with your

Re: cdrecord and scsi-3 compliance

2004-01-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Carsten Neumann wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Rob Bogus wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, portability in a quality as with my software takes a lot of effort. Speaking for cdrecord, the change not really needed as no writer uses something differnt from lun 0

Re: cdrecord and scsi-3 compliance

2004-01-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have some (admitedly old) CD readers with micro-jumpers about 2mm wide to set the LUN, and I've used SCSI drives with pads to solder a jumper, so I would not be surprised to find that some SCSI burners still have LUN jumpers. I

Re: cdrecord and scsi-3 compliance

2004-01-14 Thread Rob Bogus
Carsten Neumann wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Rob Bogus wrote: Looks like you confuse the Target ID with the lun. I'm not sure what would lead you to that, I haven't even opened the boxes to see if these drives *have* LUN jumpers. Typically they are on the drive electronics board

Re: [Cdrecord-video] Re: Cdrtools-2.01a25 ready

2004-01-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is, that the compilation process done by the makefile system of cdrecord does not break hard on compilation errors. The compilation error was in line 69 of

Re: [Cdrecord-video] Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch UPDATED ! Last was wrong !

2004-01-23 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to Joerg, my last patch to cdrtools 2.01a25 wasnt correct. The corrected patch is attached to this mail. Even this one is not needed. It you _relly_ need to compile against

Re: wave file size -pad option doesn't work.

2004-01-23 Thread Rob Bogus
Ignatius Cheng wrote: I am having problem with the size of the wave file.. I put -pad option but it is not padding and I don't know why. Just want to see if anyone know why -pad option is not working at all. Sincerely, Ignatius [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cdrecord-video] Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch to make cdrtools 2.01a25 Linux compatible

2004-01-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Please don't comment things you obviously don't really understand. 1) The include files on /usr/src/linux have been absolutely needed for a long time to be able to compile at all. 2) The include files under /usr/src/linux are definitely more recent resp.

Re: [Cdrecord-video] Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Cdrtools-2.01a25: Patch UPDATED ! Last was wrong !

2004-01-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 23 14:28:34 2004 Using kernel headers is inherently broken, a clever programmer would have avoided creating version-dependent executables. You fail to understand that Linux kernel series are in many cases as unlike as HP-UX You

Re: Problems burning CD-R's with Plextor PX-708A and cdrecord

2004-01-25 Thread Rob Bogus
jeff beck wrote: I'm sure I am doing something wrong and am only allowing myself to get yelled at by Mr. Schilling by posting, but I can't seem to write CD-R's successfully with my new Plextor PX-708A. I am using SONY CD-R 80's which are 32 speed. Nearly all the burns I try fail unless I use

Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Tue 27 January 2004 11:16, Lourens Veen wrote: On Tue 27 January 2004 08:06, Lourens Veen wrote: Then there is autofs (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/?topic_id=142, can't find a real homepage) and KDE uses fam

Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, if you do it right, then then the automounter is the wrong place for this functionality: - The task os an automounter is to watch where you try to step in. If you step into some magic land, it opens a door for you. If you go out of the magic land, the

Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: What I meant was those autothingies should keep their hands off a disk while a burn process is happening. Dunno whether it's possible to detect this, but isn't that the way it should be? The burner software can open exclusive - see man open. -- E. Robert Bogusta It

Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO, if you like to check for a media change you need to access the TOC. Thanks, but that's not what I was asking. What I want to know is, if I were writing a volume

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-02-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: The cdrecord README clearly states that you _need_ working DMA in order to write DVDs. If you have burnfree ON the drive just dramatically slows down. If the DVD unit were set to 4x, but data underrun were reducing the effective transfer speed to 2x, would cdrecord

Re: Automounters - more info wanted (was Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type)

2004-02-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Rob Bogus wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: What I meant was those autothingies should keep their hands off a disk while a burn process is happening. Dunno whether it's possible to detect this, but isn't that the way it should be? The burner software can open exclusive - see man open. After

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-02-04 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: It prints both as far as I understand. Requestor should be able to clarify which one, intended velocity in the beginning or average summary at the end, he was referring to. Cheers. A. cdrecord prints the average on a track or session at the end of that burn, and with -v

Re: growisofs hangs on DD0203

2004-02-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Daniel Tessier wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 05:28, Rob Bogus wrote: Or at least try another supported media brand. Maybe... Although the discs I have now are RICOHJPN/W11, which are supposed to be pretty good, and are on the campatibility page for my drive. I've used

[Fwd: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.2.0]]

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Bogus
For people writing software against Linux 2.6, this info may be useful. -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time ---BeginMessage--- Send to mn/l -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: how to read second track of a multisessioned dvd+r, in the burner ?

2004-02-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andrea Tasso wrote: Hi all, I burn a dvd+r, with multisession. The commands I issued were: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J firstfile growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J secondfile how can I access secondfile ? I am trying to do it in the same recorder I used to burn the dvd, not in a dvd-ROM ... if I try

Re: Interesting DVD behaviour

2004-02-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Dan The Carpetman wrote: I have the same problem. After spending 5 hours with Sony tech support all the way up to their engineers, I found that once you upgrade the firmware to 1.40 + your drive will burn 1X 2X DVD at 1X only. 4X DVD will burn at 2X. The upgrade cut back the speed

Re: Compilation problem under SuSE 9.0

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Plamen Neykov wrote: Hi all, I have problem compiling the cdrtools 2.01a25 under SuSE 9.0. The error message is: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lscg No clue, although adding the location of the library to the exvironment symbol

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Patrick Ohly [EMAIL PROTECTED] The patch to the man page indserts things disordered Where would you like me to insert the description of the new options? A while ago, I did try to have the options in alphabetical order. This seems to be the best

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus [EMAIL PROTECTED] The alternative would be to group them by function, such as putting things which affect the device (dev=, speed=, burnfree, etc) in one group, things which affect format (-D -R -N, etc) in another, things which affect how

Re: Updated DVD patch for cdrecord

2004-03-06 Thread Rob Bogus
Warly wrote: Available at http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/ Updated DVD patch (at present against a25) with a better DVD+RW formatting and burning support. scanbus will also display dev=ATA scanning if no dev option is passed on the command line, mostly because we are

Re: LF-D311 support?

2004-03-20 Thread Rob Bogus
Colette Dryden wrote: We are looking for a repair place that fixes these dvd ram drives? Also for the older style LF-D211V. Is there a place that does repair on panasonic dvd drives? You may want to investigate the cost of repair vs. the cost of a new unit. If there is a new unit which you

Re: cannot setup HP7200 anymore

2004-04-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was suddenly hit by recent changes in linux. I tried today to use my old HP 7200 parallel port CD-Writer and there is no way I could make it appear as scsi device. I manage to load all the modules and I get pg: pg version 1.02,

Re: Best way to write DVD+R?

2004-04-22 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Normally, I use this script to write my DVD (video): #!/bin/tcsh setenv SIZE `mkisofs -dvd-video -f -q -print-size -V $1 $2` setenv CDR_SECURITY 8:d ... mkisofs -dvd-video -f -V $1 $2 | cdrecord-prodvd -v

Re: Best way to write DVD+R?

2004-04-24 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The same command as above Note that with dev=ATAPI: you will never get DMA and writing is s slow. I thought that had been fixed, I would swear that cdrecord uses DMA with ATAPI and 2.6 kernels. Now I have to go back and check, I

Re: 100% system CPU usage with cdrecord

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus mail account [EMAIL PROTECTED] I *strongly* suggest using ide-scsi with 2.4 kernels. You want to boot with something like hdc=ide-scsi I believe, that what I use for all my working 2.4 systems. The device will probably be 0.0.0, but do check

Re: Backup thousands of files 1 at a time with growisofs?

2004-07-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I would particularly like to have my music uncompressed, untarred so I can just put the dvd into a machine and play them. This would require each disk to have an in itself complete iso fs with a subset of the files. Each disk may be slightly underfull.

Re: cdrtools-2.01 ready

2004-09-10 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: After nearly 2 years of hard work for Free Software, i am proud to announce the final version of cdrtools-2.01. Check ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ for the sources. Jörg Thanks! -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dvd+rw-tools Write Error

2004-10-17 Thread Rob Bogus
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 with HP dvd+rw 4.7GB (1x/2x) disc. But I came into this problem with new Memorex DVD+RW 4.7 Gb discs. I am

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

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: :-( 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

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

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'

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 everything. That's the whole point

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: /usr/local/src

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom" and the added option "-clone" (sample output appended below). The files in the CDR, however,

Re: CDR gone bad....is there a fsck.iso9660?

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
The trick Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Not solving your current problems, but there are reportedly severe differences in longevity depending on the dye (and thus the brand of CD-R blanks). I saw a recommendation for Kodak, so I record backups onto Kodak and also at least one

Re: dvd multi-session

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Even if you manage to put one tar per session, how would you access the second tar? If you want to tar-format DVD media, multi-sessioning is not an option, isofs is the *only* working option for multi-sessioning. Sure wish mkisofs would take as input tar and/or cpio, or

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:22:37 -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=

Re: Plextor PX-708A growisofs works great!

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Please! Could you submit output from 'dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd verbose' with DVD+RW media in unit? As already mentioned on the list the question I seek answer for is in what extent does the unit in question support Mt.Rainier specification. In order to spare the subscribers

Re: Compile against 2.6-test5

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cant seem to compile cdrecord against 2.60-test5! is this a known issue? (in the code below i'm in the libscg dir, that seems to be the root of all the other errors, such as -lscg not found).

Re: Liteon DVD+R/W

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw an advertisement for a really cheap Lite-On DVD+R/W/CD-R/W drive. Has anybody gotten such a drive to work? http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/english-product.htm http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/new_p_e/english--p-drw4412.htm The interesting product

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660 filesystem from a cd or dvd, I often get I/O errors within the last blocks of the filesystem. Using cat

Re: Script problem with growisofs

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Klaas-Henning Mueller wrote: There's a script-problem with growisofs which makes it nearly impossible to use for automated backup purposes: if you invoke growisofs at commandline or from an script directly with -Z option, all ist fine, it works great. But if you invoke it from cron directly or

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-08 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 05:09, Rob Bogus wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660

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