Re: Samsung SH-S183A SATA on VIA VT6420 controller

2007-04-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, 2.6.20.4 no change... should I try testing kernels too? If that is the recently released official Etch then i think it is time to ask its maintainers for advise. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DVD works in Linux, not window

2007-04-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/hdc -R -J tbb/ Do you get different behavior if you omit option -dvd-compat ? That would keep the media appendable. Whatever is the reason on the Windows side, maybe appendables can sneak around it. (A mere guess, of course.) Have a nice day :)

Re: DVD works in Linux, not window

2007-04-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it just comes to me that -dvd-compat is deprecated with DVD+R and actually should be ignored in growisofs-7.0. (See growisofs.c : search for never finalize disc at) Your dvd+rw-mediainfo, nevertheless, indicates that the media is closed. READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status:

Re: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk

2007-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The fact that som Linux people are working against the usability of Linux makes you believe that there is a need for a second source? I want to be able to follow their moves by having own souvereignty over what is going on under my backup program. What really would be needed is more

Re: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk

2007-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: test -z 1 for ac_header in dummy Greg Wooledge: I don't understand this repair. test -z 1 will always return false, because 1 is not a zero-length string. So you might as well just comment out the for ac_header in dummy line altogether. If i disable the for line then the shell

Re: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk

2007-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Which version of bash is that? I can't reproduce that result at all. The SuSE 6.x is offline. But the result from the younger SuSE 7.2 from where i know the problem with libburn-0.2 should be more interesting anyway: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release

autotools. was: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk

2007-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I understand all about writing portable scripts with autoconf, Could you have a look into our autotools configuration ? The root directory can be inspected at http://libburnia.pykix.org/browser/libburn/trunk Can you spot the reason why our configure gets that empty loop list ? A pointer

autotools. was: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk

2007-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, This shell silently ignores for i in ; do something ; done. But this does not make the code portable For portability i now apply sed to the generated ./configure. But as said, a functional port demands a hand-made system adapter anyway. I can hardly expect autotools to know about

Re: autotools

2007-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, can't figure out how to download the files without all that HTML junk. The HTML view is for quick peeking. (I.e. Trac junk) SVN resides on a different URL. From http://libburnia.pykix.org : svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libburn/trunk libburn_pykix For building the libraries

Re: autotools

2007-04-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: There are two old forms of for-loops: Volker Kuhlmann: Current bash lists it as valid syntax, so it's not old. Old in the sense of not the new for (( expr1 ; expr2 ; expr3 )) ; do list ; done Old in the sense of being mentioned by S.R.Bourne in his book The UNIX System. Read the

Re: autotools

2007-04-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_009_004_002 First, the list of words following in will be expanded to generate a list of items. Then, the variable name will be set to each item, in turn, and the compound-list executed each time. If no

Announcing cdrskin-0.3.6

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, be invited to try the new version 0.3.6 of my program cdrskin, a burn backend for CD and DVD. System requirements: Linux with kernel 2.4 or 2.6. Changes: Version 0.3.6 switched on kernel 2.6 from using /dev/sg* to using /dev/sr*. (Eventual use of /dev/hd* is unchanged.) For more

Re: Problem with Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I have reported this as a kernel bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416388 since my research seemed to suggest that that is what it is. Looks serious. I am sending this message, first to make sure that wodim developers are aware wodim support list is [EMAIL

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Input/output error. get performance: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: AC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 64 03 00 Joerg told me this was a Linux issue. I tried contacting Linux 2.4 maintainer, but it was too difficult for me to follow this issue with him because I don't understand it. So I just

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ... GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE: Looks like a successful command execution. I would next try wether growisofs is able to burn with speeds 2.4 and 4.0. -- Dirty details: For the SCSI commands involved let's look into

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, growisofs 6.1 will error out with: # growisofs -Z /dev/scd1=test.iso :-( write failed: Invalid argument Oops. Indeed 6.1 seems to be buggy with this command. I can reproduce that failure on my machine. Funnily this gesture works dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 | \

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me (about dvd+rw-mediainfo): This stems from a CDB AC ?? 00 00 00 00 00 00 nn nn 03 00 MMC-5 says nothing about the Data Type (byte 1 of the CDB) with Type 03h. I would expect that ?? is still 04 from the previous command. Joerg Schilling: ??? Do you expect a bug in growisofs?

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, # test/telltoc --drive /dev/scd1 Initializing libburnia.pykix.org ... Done Aquiring drive '/dev/sg4' ... nothing more, doesn't return Ahum. Obviously the examination of the drive gets stuck. Do you have rw-permission on /dev/sg4 ? ioctl(3, CDROMAUDIOBUFSIZ, 0xbfffa148) = 0

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, but we need to find out first whether it helps at all. Yes. This drive behavior is riddling. I really wonder at what occasion libburn's drive examination gets stuck. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Giulio Orsero wrote: cdrskin/cdrskin -vvv dev=/dev/scd1 -atip cdrskin: scanning for devices ... I presume you then pressed Ctrl+C. UNIX-SIGNAL: SIGINT errno= 2 There was no SCSI command failing until the stall occured. telltoc test: - 12

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bill Davidsen wrote: Is there some way [...] the right value for i can be determined? If it is really true that Giulio's system+drive demand a Maximum Number of Descriptors which is not larger than the available number of descriptors, then the method of dvd+rw-tools would be such a way: -

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, have a summary of findings with the exploration of cdrskin's stall on USB with Linux kernel 2.4: I attached a PHILIPS SPD3300L USB DVD writer to my system with kernel 2.4.21-215-athlon. That drive works well with cdrecord and libburn on several kernel 2.6 systems. The stall occurs as with

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my experimental version of cdrskin is now working with kernel 2.4 USB. (Whew ...) The driver(s) disliked libburn announcing a generous size via sg_io_hdr_t.dxfer_len with commands which fetch (meta-)data from the drive. This size was backed by allocated buffer space but never used to its

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i uploaded http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin-0.3.7.tar.gz which is able to cope with a USB connected DVD burner on my Linux 2.4.21 system. For getting rid of write errors with -audio tracks without putting my fingers deep into the operating system i had to reduce the size of the

Re: cdrecord and get performance scsi errors

2007-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I confirm it can now write to the USB LG E10L. :)) Also, it correctly writes DVD-RWs on the USB LG 2166D where cdrecord fails (cdrecord is ok for DVD+RW on that). I guess that is the command # /tmp/cdrecord dev=$cddev -v -data blank=fast you reported Thu, 17 May 2007.

Re: dvd rw

2007-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I have redhat linux 9 running. I have attached DVD+RW to this machine. Now I have to backup some data , but it is giving error dvdrecord: Cannot open new session Some programs which are known to burn DVD+RW : growisofs from package dvd+rw-tools

Re: dvd rw

2007-05-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: You should know that wodim uses the same dvd code as this dvdrecord does, so this would not work either. I don't know where wodim got its DVD code from, but i do know that the following command works with a DVD+RW: $ wodim -v dev=0,0,0 /dvdbuffer/fertig.iso That's with

Re: growisofs - Invalid argument

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, WARNING: /dev/hda already carries isofs! Are you using overwriteable media ? (DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, formatted DVD-RW) If not, then the error might be caused by using on appendable media option -Z rather than -M. About to execute 'mkisofs -quiet -A Bacula Data -input-charset=default

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

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, C:\dvdttgrowisofs -Z e:=/dev/zero :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=02h] From http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/mmc5/mmc5r03c.pdf : 5 21 02 INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] is decimal block address 2295104 (if i did the computing right this time).

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

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Subject: Re: growisofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] error blanking DVD+RW media Also, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being hidden with EMAIL PROTECTED. Obviously some software mistakes the message for a mail address. Only good we are into CD/DVD writing and not into mailing list software :)) I subscribed

Re: Unidentified subject!

2007-07-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bill Davidsen: * avoid having to write an image to disk when space is tight * allow overlapping of image creation and burning time * allow burning data which changes in size between observation Joerg Schilling: growisofs uses mkisofs! Mkisofs is definitely not

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I want to use cdrecord to burn a CD, wodim: No write mode specified. You are actually using the cdrecord fork of the cdrkit project, which is affiliated with Debian. Original cdrecord is available at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Most recent is cdrtools-2.01.01a31.tar.gz

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I have tried all these modes such as tao, sao, dao, raw, etc. but none of these would work , I think may be linux kernel support to my new drive is not very good The Linux kernel does not provide support for a particular drive. It rather forwards the MMC commands of our burn programs

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi all, Joerg Schilling: Correct, but it does not make sense at all to try wodim. Chris Ahlstrom: Give it up, man! Let me clarify the technical side of the problem. It is interesting enough. Number one of the try-to-do list is original cdrecord. Nevertheless i rather do not expect it to have

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vladimir Nadvornik: It might be this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413960 This does not match the current problem. pengsens' drive refuses on any write mode which yields this message in wodim's output Supported modes: while in bug=413960 the according message is:

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chris Ahlstrom: Perhaps I am talking out of turn here, but isn't this mailing list restricted to covering the Debian fork (reference http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg2.html)? cdwrite@other.debian.org is an unmoderated support and discussion list about burning

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chris Ahlstrom: But are there any other CD/DVD writing engines out their? Yes. libburn supports CD and single layer DVD with capabilities according to MMC-5. (That is about what growisofs can do - minus the capability to fabricate ISO-9660 multi-session on random access media which got no

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: growisofs claims to be able, cdrecord claims to be able. Joerg Schilling: I cannot speak for growisofs but cdrecord is definitely able to correctly copy DVD-Video with DVD+R/DL and driveropts=layerbreak=# claims does not mean i doubt it. I just did not test it myself. Different from

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The failure depends on timing between wodim and hal. IMHO there is a chance that it fails earlier if hal polls the drive in the right moment. Not impossible, i have to confess. But reading wodim's source for write-mode detection i have to conclude that hald would have to _reliably_

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bill Davidsen: I did recently discover that it [cdrskin] has limitations doing odd raw burns, but that's not a usual requirement, Would it be indiscrete to ask for the use case and what cdrecord write mode option you wanted to apply ? libburn contains code for raw write modes and i

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vladimir Nadvornik: I think that updating wodim is a good idea anyway, me: Agreed. Joerg Schilling: NO Independend of the question wether to use cdrecord, wodim or cdrskin, it makes sense to upgrade from earlier wodims to 1.1.6. It eases the hald problem if one uses the block device

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: Eduard Bloch was told that there is no problem if only we userland applications coordinate neatly. Joerg Schilling: Alan Cox [...] with his answers to Mr. Bloch, he was correct, but I did not see him writing this claim. That's what i understand from this statement by Alan Cox

Re: Linux problems

2007-07-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Seth Kurtzberg: If you are willing to tolerate deadlock, a simple kernel patch suffices. Such a solution is, surely, ugly, but may be a better alternative than no solution at all. By deadlock you mean that both contestants are denied access ? Not that anything gets stuck if it wants

Re: VCD (was: cdrecord problems)

2007-07-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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 cannot expect better results than with cdrecord -raw. During my adventures in google i

Re: Linux problems

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: Do you believe you will get a description for a solution? I am open to any proposal. Maybe i learn something which encourages me to submit this issue to LKML again. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Announcing cdrskin-0.3.8

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, be invited to try the new version 0.3.8 of my program cdrskin, a burn backend for CD and DVD. It marks the first anniversary of the revived development of libburn. System requirements: Linux with kernel 2.4 or 2.6. Changes: * Now able to cope with the peculiarities of Linux 2.4 USB *

Re: Linux problems

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Did you try to understand why there are problems on Linux but not on Solaris? I tried to understand why there are problems on Linux. I did only watch one older instance of hald and i did no research in Solaris. But i considered conflicts other than those with hald. if you believe me

Re: How to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw?

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I'm trying to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw that has previously had data written to it, so that I can give that dvd-rw to someone else and they wont see the data. (NB I'm _not_ worried about magnetic/optical history, the FBI, the CIA etc). Please note that I DO NOT necessarily want

Re: Linux problems

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, There is a potential problem with your idea about doing something in open(). Open() is a C library call, not a kernel API call. Oh, not for general open(). But for the code of the hd , sg , and sr drivers which they perform on open(). The same code that is able to spoil our burns. To my

Re: How to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw?

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, j t: just found http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ which explains the same subject, I think) Yep. This puts some emphasis on readability by entertainment hardware. Video players, game consoles. Cool, i did not know the paragraph about DVD-R Dual Layer yet. Gives me something

Re: How to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw?

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 blank=fast -sao tsize=$sizes - ... cdrecord: Cannot write CD's = 100 minutes. Joerg Schilling: This is problem I've seen so far only with wodim. You should upgrade to recent original software install it suid rood Well, cdrecord-2.01.01a23 is original

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: If you still think about record locking, you are on the wrong way. I think about locking the whole device, not a record. And i do not think that any existing locking mechanism in Linux is able to perform this. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw?

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: I am not sure if you know this but a DVD-RW needs to be blank before writing to it. As does a CD-RW. With all my drives it works fine to blank and burn a CD-RW in the same cdrecord run. If I did ever see this problem, it would not exist. Are you sure you tested this

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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 which, yet. There is code to

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Polyakov: ??? -dvd-compat or -dvd-video do close the disk! Well, if used already at 1st recording. Oh. I misunderstood that. Thanks for clarifying. Now i have to ponder if and how i should keep people from closing appendable +-R . I tested such DVD+R and DVD-R with several computer

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rob Bogus: However, I used -dvd-compat, not -dvd-video, if you think that has any chance of helping I'll try that. I understand -dvd-video is an option of mkisofs which growisofs does forward. It also triggers growisofs option -dvd-compat for the burner part of growisofs. So it would

Re: dvd+rw-tools multisession recording fails after a few sessions

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i would say the media is worn off by too many write sessions. It [growisofs within script] works fine for a few sessions and it then fails to write. ... This is the output of the mediainfo: ... READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: appendable Number of Sessions:95

Re: dvd+rw-tools multisession recording fails after a few sessions

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Farshad at Farco: Looks like I am indeed wearing out the media by too many (95 seems to be the limit at least for this media) sessions. The MMC model specs for DVD-R talk of 2302 RZones, of which each constitutes a MMC logical track. So if 95 is too much then this seems rather a physical

Re: cdrom burning problems

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the problem is in writing. ... Trying to mount the very same blank disk creates a following error message: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use You seem to expect

Re: cdrom burning problems

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i oversaw your attempt to do a single sweep write. Tuomas Jouhten : dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/hdc Linux 2.6 should do this with DVD-RAM and DVD+RW. DVD-RW should work after being treated by dvd+rw-format -force /dev/hdc or cdrskin -v dev=/dev/hdc blank=format_overwrite The burn

Re: Potentially serious bug in mkisofs

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the program failed to check the available hard drive space. it crashed my computer. I don't know how the specifics of space checking work, This is not specific to mkisofs. Many commands would fill up your disk if you order them. E.g.: cat /dev/zero FreeDisk.iso Only few check wether

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

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (On 3rd, 4th try: My previous messages seem not to have reached the list. On 2nd try: I sent this message to list and poster a few hours before but it did not show up on the list.) Joe MacDonald: I've seen a couple of discussions

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

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: We don't [know the trick] - yet. Joerg Schilling: ??? Who is 'we'? The users, the Linux people, me, and who else tried to find out what's wrong with those systems. Joerg Schilling: in general, you need root privileges on Linux. But for what ? Make me smarter. I do not know a

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

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: The user exchanged the SATA controller Joe MacDonald: I'm not completely opposed to that, but I've been considering that a non-solution so far since it appears that the controller isn't completely defective, just not completely functional in Linux. I will hardly tell you to throw

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

2007-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joe MacDonald: So I'm guessing this is an indication of a problem in the Linux device driver, maybe at the SATA level, maybe in SG? I would assume that SG is not to blame but rather the SATA specific code. Possibly even specific to the VIA VT6240 SATA controller. Burning seems to work

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

2007-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: Non-technical hint: It will be psycho-dynamically helpful if you can point to growisofs or cdrskin as failing Joerg Schilling: If other programs do not fail, this does not verify a problem in cdrecord. This is well understood. Vice versa the failure of other programs would be a

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

2007-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i see one potential MODE SELECT with page 05h succeeding in the cdrecord command trace. It is the first of all: Executing 'mode select g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s Shortly after, the setting gets

Re: cdrom burning problems

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thanks, there seems to be much more in cd or dvd burning that I ever imagined, it isn't that straightforward as I thought. Feel free to ask for particular advise. The pitfalls are various and entertaining for us bystanders. Constant source of joy: DVD drive-media compatibility. Current

Re: Writing Dual Layer DVD-RW using Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I use a 10GB HP Colorado tape drive to backup my personal Linux PC every week/month. I backup to the tape using GNU tar in compress mode, thereby allowing me to back up to approximately 20GB of files. The closest alternative to the 10GB tape is the 8.5GB DVD-RW DL (i.e. dual layer).

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

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, So am I doing something wrong, or is this behaviour consistent with what we might expect out of the problem, based on what we were seeing in cdrecord? It is the same failure as with cdrecord: cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: no error ... Sense Key: 0x5

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

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mike-a: I have a pioneer 212 (sata) DVD running Fedora 7 Neither cdrecord nor growisofs work WIN XP works, but only if DMA is disabled for the drive Both machines have a VIA VT6420 I tried my burner on a friends machine with nvidia sata controller and everything worked fine. This

Re: Writing Dual Layer DVD-RW using Linux

2007-09-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, So if I want to overwrite an old back-up on the DVD with a new back-up, I would just use the above command? I won't need to format the DVD again? If it is a formatted media then it can be overwritten without any further blanking or formatting. DVD-RAM are sold formatted, DVD+RW get

Re: Writing Dual Layer DVD-RW using Linux

2007-09-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: Unformatted DVD-RW need to be blanked before re-usal: dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/hdc Joerg Schilling: This is nonsense! Unformatted DVD-RW media may be used without special preparations. Unused unformatted media: yes. But my statement was about re-usal after previous use for

Re: Errormessage(s) index?

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error Is there any index/list where i can take a look what exactly went wrong? Those numbers are the SCSI error codes as returned by the drives. They are listed e.g. in MMC-5, Annex F. dvd+rw-tools provides a list at

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, # growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/hdc=myDVD.iso # dd if=/dev/hdc bs=2048 count=2002922 | md5sum dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error 1938744+0 records in 1) Is this the dreaded readahead bug again? I doubt it strongly. 2002922-1938744 = 64178 blocks missing That's 125

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrick Ohly: Writing 150 empty blocks after the last block with user data is required by the data CD standard - they are called post-gap. Yep. But as the publicly available standard MMC-5 clarifies: 6.33.3.19 Post-gap If a Data track is followed by another kind of track (such as an

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I don't doubt your observations, I know that the run-out blocks are not readable. I think that's because at the level below blocks, data on the CD is spread across a wider range to mitigate the effect of scratches: The run-out blocks seem to belong to packet writing mode of which TAO is a

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bill Davidsen: blockdev --setra 0 /dev/hdc This does not match the behavior on my oldish system either. First suspicios thing: # blockdev --getra /dev/hdg 8 That would be 8 x 512 = 2 x 2048 bytes. So 4 kB should be a upper limit for the loss on this drive. But my losses of blocks

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Have you tried setting both to zero and asking to read just the number of blocks in the ISO filesystem? Interesting proposal. The image of 3041 blocks is not available any more. New test candidate looks like this track: 1 lba: 0 (0) 00:02:00 adr: 1 control: 4 mode: 1

Announcing cdrskin-0.4.0

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, be invited to try the new version 0.4.0 of my program cdrskin, a burn backend for CD and DVD. It has aquired more capabilities as demonstrated by growisofs and it provides better compatibility to its paragon cdrecord, including the option to fallback to cdrecord or wodim for exotic CD

Re: DVD-R as backup medium: growisofs + udftools

2007-11-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Note that you first need to think about snapshots anyway and snapshots need disk space. We discussed the snapshot topic a few years ago. If you remember, the result was that a snapshot can prevent some inconsistency mishaps but not all of them. Perfect inconsistency protection is only

Re: problem with BD sessions after 4GB

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Arnold Maderthaner: Mounted Media: 43h, BD-RE growisofs -M /dev/dvdrw -R -J -joliet-long -use-the-force-luke=4gms :-( next session would cross 4GB boundary, aborting... This is contrary to what i read from the source code. You will have to obtain a source tarball of

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mkisofs ... |cdrecord ... no option -multi ... dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Disc status: appendable Looks like this program does not close DVD+R regardless whether -multi is present or not. Please could we stop here about other software and

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, some rather technical contribution: READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: invisible This means the track was not closed but contains data. Reasoning: dvd+rw- mediainfo.cpp reports invisible if in the reply of MMC command READ TRACK INFORMATION neither the RT bit nor the

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling: There is one closed session. The disk has not been closed to prevent appending further data and for this reason, there is one invisible session. But the track still reports RT=0, Blank=0 with READ TRACK INFORMATION. If it was closed then RT should be 1. Gregoire Favre:

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: But the track still reports RT=0, Blank=0 with READ TRACK INFORMATION. If it was closed then RT should be 1. Joerg Schilling: Which track? Logical track number 1 as reported by dvd+rw-mediainfo. As reported by Gregoire Favre: READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State:

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gregoire Favre: From today's `dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0` : INQUIRY:[LITE-ON ][DVDRW SH-16A7S ][WS04] Track State: invisible Well, at least that did not change. I made own tests with DVD+R meanwhile. Track #1 in closed single-session and all tracks in

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gregoire Favre: Disc status: complete Track Size:2146272*2KB Track Size:146784*2KB Now we got two tracks with an ISO 9660 header of the second one pointing to the directory tree of the first one. This might be inappropriate for your UDF image. under

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me (quoting from man growisofs): growisofs -M /dev/sr0=/dev/zero Joerg Schilling: This will make the disk unuable It looks weird, yes. But to my knowledge this command copies the first 64 kB from the previous session to the new session. If those 64 kB contain the superblock of the

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Last time I tried to burn DVD with cdrecord all failed due to SCSI errors. I have used cdrecord-proDVD on DVD-RW and on DVD+RW without unexpected problems. Since about 1.5 years, cdrecord from Joerg's sources offers the proDVD capabilities. I would rather bet that cdrecord -dao is able to

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, need to specify the size of the session before burning, which I thought was really a non sense as the program could easyly calculate it for us. growisofs and cdrskin hardly ever need a size prediction. Nearly always there is a way to write a session without previously announcing its size.

Re: dvd+rw-mediainfo does not return enough data on DVD-R

2008-01-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Running `dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvdrw RANDOM_STRINGS`, per the source code and miscellaneous posts scattered across the web, returns a lot of debugging data. When dvd+rw-mediainfo returns the media code, the equivalent to the ATIP information for a DVD, it only returns 44 (4+40) bytes

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

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, * formatting .:-[ FORMAT UNIT failed with SK=5h/ASC=22h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error Quite a strange error 5 22 00 ILLEGAL FUNCTION What can I do to erase and reuse these DVD+RW? Those individual media might be dead now. Try them according to the following advise. You do not have to

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 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 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 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.

Announcing xorriso-0.1.0, an integrated CD/DVD ISO 9660 multi-session tool

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, be invited to try the initial version 0.1.0 of my program xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. It maps file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the

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