Hi, > ps Sorry Thomas if I've broken with established protocol as I replied > earlier to your personal email, I am a bit new to mailing lists.
Oh, you didn't and i would be the wrong person to enforce any. Since we are still in riddling state i did not post my reply to the list, either. But for completeness, here's a copy for the public : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Many thanks for the reply. I'm trying to earn my christmas gifts. > I'm not sure it's an environment problem as the man page for growisofs > states in the notes: > > *** Man page extract *** > NOTES > If the media already carries isofs and growisofs is invoked with -Z > option non-interactively, e.g. through cron, it shall fail with "FATAL: > /dev/dvd already carries isofs!" Note that only ISO9660 is recognized, > you can perfectly zap e.g. an UDF filesystem non-interactively. > *** Man page extract end*** Now this i cannot find in dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8/growisofs.1 which is the current version at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/?M=D > and this is exactly what I see. If I format the DVD first then the > problem is solved but there appears to be some concern over keep > formatting a DVD+RW. > > I am using: > > growisofs by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 5.13, That is quite old. Nevertheless, Luke's Force should be worth a try. I once needed it with 5.2 (or was it 5.3 ?) and since then it does protect me. But it seems not to be necessary any more for that original purpose. It got new jobs, nevertheless. See the history at the beginning of http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/growisofs.c The man page of 5.21 says : There're several undocumented options commonly denoted with -use-the-force-luke prefix. Some of them serve debug ging purposes. Some require certain knowledge about recording process or even OS kernel internals and as being such can induce confusing behaviour. Some are to be used in very specific situations better recognized by front- ends or automated scripts. Rationale behind leaving these options undocumented is that those few users who would actually need to use them directly can as well consult the source code or obtain specific instructions elsewhere. Well, one of my christmas wishes is -use-the-force-luke=noload working. I'm crossing fingers that Andy finds the time to read his mail. > ... I still see the ISO file system > warning so I am assuming the CRON FATAL error too. What does it do ? I would not bet on that. I always see this warning. All my growisofs runs are controlled by a script which itself pretends to be cdrecord ... at least as far as my backup program is concerned. I never noticed any attempt of growisofs to interact with me directly. Just give it a try and see what happens. If -use-the-force-luke helps with 5.13 or an upgrade to 5.21 does, then please send a short note to cdwrite@other.debian.org , too. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]