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 year

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

2008-02-15 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

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

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 Eric Wanchic
Sorry I haven't responded back sooner. I needed to switch gears and work on my employer's email/open ticket project. I was able to continue on yesterday late afternoon. Good news and same news. I was able to burn a multi-border DVD+R using cdrskin. The down side, it still does this funny thing

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 also

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 need to reload

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I've moved from growisofs [...] to wodim, finally to cdrecord cdrecord 2.01.01a37. What was the reason to give up growisofs ? It is supposed to do multi-session on DVD+R if you do not use options -dvd-compat or -dvd-video. cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0,0 -eject -multi -tao -data

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

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Wanchic
Thanks for replying.(^_^) Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, I've moved from growisofs [...] to wodim, finally to cdrecord cdrecord 2.01.01a37. What was the reason to give up growisofs ? It is supposed to do multi-session on DVD+R if you do not use options -dvd-compat or -dvd-video.

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

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Wanchic
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 locate cannot find it. I didn;t recieve any errors durning the ./configure, make, make

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

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4288486 You have a problem with the formatter program genisoimage, a clone of mkisofs. growisofs uses mkisofs (or a clone of it) as formatter. It obtains multi-session info from media, operates mkisofs accordingly, and directs the resulting image to

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

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 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 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 one

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 besides

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 Thomas Schmitt
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 severely challenged with a 18 MB DVD+R which is not closed.

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

Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Wanchic
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 installed cdrecord

Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Wanchic
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 installed cdrecord