Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas J. Magliery, Ph.D.
Volker, I can burn DVD+Rs using growisofs, but I get the above error with cdrecord-ProDVD. I can smell a dead simple solution here... === The original problem I was trying to solve was to get xcdroast to work, which requires cdrecord-ProDVD to burn DVDs. I actually had thought of your

DVD incompatibility

2004-01-28 Thread jxavier
I can not play dvd that was recorded in a sansui 4005 in other machines or in a pc. Thanks Joe xavier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-01-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
True, but having an automounter like autofs would be an easy way of implementing this, and it has the advantage that it'll also work from outside of the DE. Hm, true. Any distro actually using autofs though? SuSE isn't, don't know about others. Can one assume that people who use the command

Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
The original problem I was trying to solve was to get xcdroast to work, which requires cdrecord-ProDVD to burn DVDs. I hear k3b is better anyway? You could try a wrapper script which magles -prodvd arguments into something useful for growisofs, but I'm unable to help (no time). I assume Yes

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

2004-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:58:45PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: It may be a little tricky on distributions not coming from a commercial source, like Debian. Maybe, but it remains entirely Debian's problem and responsibility to sort out. It's by no means impossible. In any case, as you say, not

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
-a broken drive. Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, while cdrecord is? Recall that cdrecord is

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
cdrecord development was then suspended for a while, and Andy Polyakov made dvd+rw-tools (growisofs) which is mainly meant for DVD+ drives, and is open source under the GPL. cdrecord release schedule was never a driving force for dvd+rw-tools, it was availability of technology and personal

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
First of all note that 5.17 is strongly recommended update for those who deploy 5.14 through 5.16. It addresses problems with DVD-dash recordings performed with -dvd-compat option, i.e. very kind of recordings you're referring to. I apologize for inconvenience, but do upgrade. Now to wrap up

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
-a broken drive. Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, while cdrecord is? Recall that cdrecord

Unidentified subject!

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a broken drive. Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, while

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

2004-01-28 Thread Robert S. Dubinski
Hi, It may be a little tricky on distributions not coming from a commercial source, like Debian. Maybe, but it remains entirely Debian's problem and responsibility to sort out. It's by no means impossible. In any case, as you say, not J?rg's problem. Sorry, _what_ remains Debian's problem

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

2004-01-28 Thread Lourens Veen
On Wed 28 January 2004 16:07, Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 27 21:08:37 2004 Aha, thanks for explaining that. This does pose a bit of a problem though if you have both: say I insert a CD, then the volume manager sees it and mounts it. Then I go to my magic

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

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 27 21:08:37 2004 Aha, thanks for explaining that. This does pose a bit of a problem though if you have both: say I insert a CD, then the volume manager sees it and mounts it. Then I go to my magic automounter directory and it tries to mount it too. Problem.

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * YOU ARE A SPAMMER because you use an illegal mail address * WHEN WILL YOU FINALLY follow the nettiquette? Note that because you don't follow usual agreements, I usually don't reply to your mails.

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] that cdrecord-ProDVD This is commercial binary-only software. Looks like you confuse binary with commercial. Or was dvdrecord just some Red Hat package of cdrecord-ProDVD? No. Various distributions shipped dvdrecord some while ago, because it

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
Does this answer mean that cdrecord fundamentally checks some data that is always going to give me an error, Let me re-phrase. Growisofs pulls DISC INFORMATION (that's what the command 0x51 in question does) in a way different from cdrecord, which I believe is/offer as the explanation for why

Re: SONY DVD+/-RW, DWU14A under RHE

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: christine trame [EMAIL PROTECTED] we got a SONY DVD+/-RW model DW14A and try to write with it 2x dvd's under RHE (with the kernel version 2.4.21). The errors we are getting: dvdrtools v0.1.3 Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

Re: UDF writing in kernel 2.6

2004-01-28 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I asked this in debian-user and got no answer so I thought this is a better place. How do I get udf writing working in kernel 2.6? I have udftools installed. However when I try a pktsetup, it complains that the kernel does not have pkcdvd device. What menu option/patch do I have to

RE: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas J. Magliery, Ph.D.
Did I say that cdrecord squeezes the drive? No! If I wanted to say that, I'd say Unlike cdrecord, growisofs... But I said nothing of that sort! I said that growisofs asks only for information I consider required for intended purpose in a colorful way. I was basically answering Thomas'

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

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
It seems that the Sun volume mamager performs a dummy mount for empty medium and remains quiet until you call eject cd. Upon CD/DVD media load Solaris volume manager arranges kind of bypass device entry under /vol and then invokes rmmount. Rmmount analyzes the media to identify the file system

Re: Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas J. Magliery, Ph.D.
I assume Yes was the answer to have to do this by hand? Ugh. Correct, sorry. It's not possible to say in one sentence how to do this, and I don't know of any howto. Don't do it again... You could look at files with about the same timestamp and delete those after venturing a guess whether they

dvd+rw tools error message

2004-01-28 Thread James Finnall
Hello, I upgraded to dvd+rw-tools-5.17 tonight and I seem to have found a new error message I have not seen before. # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video output Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video output | builtin_dd of=/dev/raw/raw1 obs=32k seek=0' :-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Bad file

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-28 Thread James Finnall
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:52, Andy Polyakov wrote: First of all note that 5.17 is strongly recommended update for those who deploy 5.14 through 5.16. It addresses problems with DVD-dash recordings performed with -dvd-compat option, i.e. very kind of recordings you're referring to. I

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

2004-01-28 Thread Lourens Veen
On Wed 28 January 2004 00:28, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: or whatever. Then when the user actually opens the drive, the automounter kicks in and it is mounted. In this case, you simply don't need an automounter, and SuSE shows that nicely. User wants to open hard disk? - Click harddisk icon.

Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas J. Magliery, Ph.D.
Volker, I can burn DVD+Rs using growisofs, but I get the above error with cdrecord-ProDVD. I can smell a dead simple solution here... === The original problem I was trying to solve was to get xcdroast to work, which requires cdrecord-ProDVD to burn DVDs. I actually had thought of your

DVD incompatibility

2004-01-28 Thread jxavier
I can not play dvd that was recorded in a sansui 4005 in other machines or in a pc. Thanks Joe xavier

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

2004-01-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
True, but having an automounter like autofs would be an easy way of implementing this, and it has the advantage that it'll also work from outside of the DE. Hm, true. Any distro actually using autofs though? SuSE isn't, don't know about others. Can one assume that people who use the command

Re: Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
The original problem I was trying to solve was to get xcdroast to work, which requires cdrecord-ProDVD to burn DVDs. I hear k3b is better anyway? You could try a wrapper script which magles -prodvd arguments into something useful for growisofs, but I'm unable to help (no time). I assume Yes

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
-a broken drive. Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, while cdrecord is? Recall that cdrecord is

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
cdrecord development was then suspended for a while, and Andy Polyakov made dvd+rw-tools (growisofs) which is mainly meant for DVD+ drives, and is open source under the GPL. cdrecord release schedule was never a driving force for dvd+rw-tools, it was availability of technology and personal

Re: DVD Compatiblity issue

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
First of all note that 5.17 is strongly recommended update for those who deploy 5.14 through 5.16. It addresses problems with DVD-dash recordings performed with -dvd-compat option, i.e. very kind of recordings you're referring to. I apologize for inconvenience, but do upgrade. Now to wrap up

Unidentified subject!

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a broken drive. Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, while

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

2004-01-28 Thread Lourens Veen
On Wed 28 January 2004 16:07, Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 27 21:08:37 2004 Aha, thanks for explaining that. This does pose a bit of a problem though if you have both: say I insert a CD, then the volume manager sees it and mounts it. Then I go to my magic

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * YOU ARE A SPAMMER because you use an illegal mail address * WHEN WILL YOU FINALLY follow the nettiquette? Note that because you don't follow usual agreements, I usually don't reply to your mails.

Re: SONY DVD+/-RW, DWU14A under RHE

2004-01-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: christine trame [EMAIL PROTECTED] we got a SONY DVD+/-RW model DW14A and try to write with it 2x dvd's under RHE (with the kernel version 2.4.21). The errors we are getting: dvdrtools v0.1.3 Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Based on: Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
that cdrecord-ProDVD This is commercial binary-only software. Looks like you confuse binary with commercial. I believe it's being sold, which makes it commercial. (Note I never criticized this.) I assume you're not refuting the binary-only. DVDs. Not quite accurate, but it goes along

Re: UDF writing in kernel 2.6

2004-01-28 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I asked this in debian-user and got no answer so I thought this is a better place. How do I get udf writing working in kernel 2.6? I have udftools installed. However when I try a pktsetup, it complains that the kernel does not have pkcdvd device. What menu option/patch do I have to

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

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Polyakov
It seems that the Sun volume mamager performs a dummy mount for empty medium and remains quiet until you call eject cd. Upon CD/DVD media load Solaris volume manager arranges kind of bypass device entry under /vol and then invokes rmmount. Rmmount analyzes the media to identify the file system