-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 2:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Terence Golightly wrote: > > re-examining the man page to cdrecord and choosing the -ignsize option. I > > burned, I see files, I happy!!! > > > >Cheers to all, > > > >Terry > > That's right , unless you specify differently cdrecord, as I understand > it , assumes > your media size is 650MB, but as long as you take care to insure that > your media is large enough to receive all the data, using the -ignsize > option allows your to override it. > John
The first thing I would do with any older CD-R/RW is check the manufacturer's site to find whether there's a firmware update available. That's the easy way to ensure capability of larger capacity disks. ignsize can be dangerous because it instructs the writing app to over burn. Often a very bad thing. If you want to see what cdrecord does before it starts to write to a blank run the following command with a blank in the drive:. Alter the dev= part to suit your environment of course, not everyone's burner is dev=0,0,0: cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 You'll get more than you want to know about the device, the media, the version of cdrecord you're running, etc.. Thusly: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : ' ' Identifikation : '52X24X52 CD-RW ' Revision : '1.07' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 7 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11646 (97:26/54) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 10 Manufacturer: Lead Data Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nanook]$ I've assembled far too many boxes for people using recycled components such as CD-RW drives to neglect a firmware update, and if the drive is old but has no update available I always test with larger capacity media before I'll use it or stick it into a new system. The price isn't high enough to justify it, the A-Open shown above that's in this machine was only $39.95 Canadian. The DVD +-R/+-RW (Sony) I installed yesterday was only $180.00 Canadian. Both use any size blank you can buy. With the software built in for Mandrake 10 beta2. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.2mdk 10:20:41 up 1:02, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.41, 0.29 Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIn7vZqvqlrLPr5YRAl5QAKCnTSxI6vyuifQDKyjV6E5de1pnzwCfRzNB 3GR15hXRrL+Ieq/PkO6sETQ= =g/og -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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