Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:20:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hello :-) 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. Same for me on my old

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-06 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:20:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hello :-) 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. Same for me on my old burner, but I got tired of

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: 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 Gregoire Favre
Hello, One may as well use dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 skip=0 count=2146272 of=file.out cdrecord -v -sao file.out This way you get a new medium that will work on the MAC. It would be interesting to make this experiment. Last time I tried to burn DVD with cdrecord all failed due to SCSI

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 ?

2008-01-04 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: This is a reminder..2 days have passed. As you still did not send the requested informataion that is needed to help you, you verified that yoy are not interested in help but only in ranting. Oh come on :-( Please notice

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: You seem to be only interested in ranting :-( No, that's not true. Why then don't you send the requested information that could probably prove that you have problems? If you don't send information, I have to judge on the most probable cause

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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 Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: This is a reminder..2 days have passed. As you still did not send the requested informataion that is needed to help you, you verified that yoy are not interested in help but

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hello :-) Only way to put it in question is to ask Gregoire whether dvd+rw-mediainfo meanwhile does not say invisible any more. From today's `dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0` : INQUIRY:[LITE-ON ][DVDRW SH-16A7S

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Well, I hate this caps only

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 Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: What kind of drive is on strike in OSX ? Is it the same hardware as with Linux ? If not: can the OSX drive burn DVD ? It's only a DVD reader and CD-rw drive's. If you are willing to risk to lose the problematic DVD+R media

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 ?

2008-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Number of Sessions:2 State of Last Session: complete Number of Tracks: 2 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: invisible Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size:2146272*2KB ROM

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lot of lies removed. I am not sure whether you send your lies and because you are just uninformed or because you actively like to spread FUD. the only result from your lies is that you completely lose creability. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: It seems that you are not interested in a solution for a possible problem. No I am interested in a solution, but if I am seen as a liar I don't see this could work ? You seem to be only interested in ranting :-( No, that's not

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Gregoire Favre wrote: #!/bin/bash [...] UNLOCK='cdrdao unlock --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc sleep 1' [...] #$UNLOCK Good thing this is commented out, because that would not have worked. Try using a function instead: unlock() { cdrdao unlock

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Greg Wooledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Gregoire Favre wrote: #!/bin/bash [...] UNLOCK='cdrdao unlock --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc sleep 1' [...] #$UNLOCK Good thing this is commented out, because that would not have worked. Try using

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: It seems that you are not interested in a solution for a possible problem. No I am interested in a solution, but if I am seen as a liar I don't see this could work ? I did not call you

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 Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: It seems that you are not interested in a solution for a possible problem. No I am interested in a solution, but if I am

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to help you although your problems are caused from using non-free software from Debian (wodim/cdrkit). Joerg, please stop the FUD and bullshit. Really. There's no need for it. There is no need for wodim. Please stop to attack free

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, some rather technical contribution: If the other people only would be interested in a technical discussion! READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: invisible This means the track was not closed but contains data. Reasoning:

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 ?

2008-01-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:52:03PM -0500, Rob Bogus wrote: Hello :-) I am puzzled why you are using wodim instead of growisofs for this, since it has just the -dvd-compat option you need. And if gentoo has a problem letting you install it, that's your choice of a fascist distribution. I

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 ?

2008-01-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:06:48AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: any idea on how to modify my little script to do it ? Sorry, I already wrote it for growisofs : #!/bin/bash if [ -z $2 ]; then echo usage : $0 DVD_title DVD_dir [write speed] echo That will write a DVD with video

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: code to close disk... I shall look at it, maybe that code would allow me to close my discs, as cdrecord fails at doing so either. The information you provided prove that cdrecord was able to close the disk. If you did send the output from cdrecord

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. I am

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: The information you provided prove that cdrecord was able to close the disk. If you did send the output from cdrecord -minfo from the disk past the -fix run, this could be verified.. I said to you that cdrecord didn't

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: The information you provided prove that cdrecord was able to close the disk. If you did send the output from cdrecord -minfo from the disk past the -fix run, this could be

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:56:17PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: I said to you that cdrecord didn't change anything because dvd+rw-mediainfo still showed the same info : I don't care about the putput from dvd+rw-mediainfo Well, it's a really good tool. And after the try of cdrecord

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pleae do not continue to repeat that this is a linux vs. no-linus problem What is your problem ??? I can fully read the DVD on my linux box as already explained lots of time, I really don't like to be nomed a liar. And yes, due to you I have tried

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: The information you provided prove that cdrecord was able to close the disk. If you did send the output from cdrecord -minfo from the disk past the -fix

Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I use for ages a very little script to burn my DVD, and I tried one of my DVD in OSX to discover that it wasn't readable there, but it is under linux. I use wodim because it can also write in udf, but I would enjoy it to close my disk... any idea on how to modify my little script to do it

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Wodim does not support writing DVDs. The existence of half baken code does not proof usability. Oh please... AKAIK it's the only way to write udf DVD under linux now. Under gentoo I can't easyly have both cdrtools and cdrkit so

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Wodim does not support writing DVDs. The existence of half baken code does not proof usability. Oh please... AKAIK it's the only way to write udf DVD under linux now. Under gentoo I

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wodim comes with a broken variant of mkisofs, don't use it. Oh interesting, I don't understand why it works so well under linux sofar. There is a big difference between works and aparently works.. I am only asking how I could end with DVD

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2007-12-31 Thread Rob Bogus
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Wodim does not support writing DVDs. The existence of half baken code does not proof usability. Oh please... AKAIK it's the only way to write udf DVD under linux now. Under gentoo I can't easyly