Hi, > Why use a clone if you may use the original?
cdrskin is not a clone of anything. > Nobody so far reported a problem with the original cdrecord If it is about DVD then cdrecord is not state of the art since at least five years. If it is about Linux then cdrecord has a big social problem: Its author is disliked so much that the distros rather include a hardly maintained clone for CD purposes and point everybody to growisofs for other media. If it was not for the chronical trouble about Linux and CD burning then i would not have started my own burn endeavor. When i finally managed to teach libburn how to do CD TAO, i felt sportily challenged to perform on my DVD writer what dvd+rw-tools can do. Since about a year i try to compete with growisofs in its overall use case: to grow ISO filesystems. Clear advantages have been achieved on my side meanwhile - as long as growisofs has to rely on mkisofs as formatter. But sporty as i am, i offer Andy's users all of xorriso's formatter capabilities in a pseudo-mkisofs wrap. So he can outperform me e.g. by applying xorriso image manipulations to BD-R. Andy, i hope you join me with the 32 sector offset for the first session on overwriteables. I am currently working on a mount helper which will allow to easily access older sessions on those media resp. in random-access files. It will also be useful with multi-session media because Linux mount performs option session= only on CD but not on DVD. FreeBSD mount seems to have no session option at all. But both can address sectors. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]