help regarding bootable cd writing

2001-08-13 Thread sumeer . k
hi I am trying to create e a customised boot cd for my linux machine. I have created a boot/root floppy which is working fine. I have written the cd with the image of this floppy with -b -c options of mkisofs and then a cdrecord But when trying ti boot from the cd i am getting an er

RE: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread G. R. Basile
> 80 minute discs are definitely not red book compliant. This simply means that the disc is not guaranteed to work in every cd audio player. It should also be noted that the red book spec was created 20+ (?) years ago. At the time it was a statistical marvel. It allowed a lot of slop in the manuf

Re: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ERSEK Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I would not suggest to use disks > 80 Minute for any kind of data storage > > as they are most likely not reliable and definitely not readable by all drives. > > I tried these three big discs only becau

Re: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Platt
> Clearly anything >90 is asking for troble. However, I'm not as clear on > why anything <90 would be a problem in terms of a standard. As you note > there can be all manner of bad firmware misbehaviour, but I would expect > anything in audio mode to read okay if you can write it. It's my underst

Re: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The time between 90:00/00 and 99:59/75 is the space _before_ the start of the disk. > > I would not suggest to use disks > 80 Minute for any kind of data storage > as they are most likely not reliable and definitely not readable by all drives. > If you really like to u

Re: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would not suggest to use disks > 80 Minute for any kind of data storage > as they are most likely not reliable and definitely not readable by all drives. I tried these three big discs only because I read some comparisons on the web, which claimed

Re: cdrecord-1.10 can't load a disk on a Philips PCRW804

2001-08-13 Thread schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 13 15:22:50 2001 > [Joerg Schilling:] > Try to insert a non-deectice media >What's "deectice"? I've tried a regular CD (the OpenBSD 2.6 distribution, >which I assume does not have any fancy CD-copy-protection scheme on it), >a blank CD-R, and a blank CD-RW.

Re: problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread schilling
>From: ERSEK Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling >scsidev: '0,0,0' >scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 >Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38 >Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' >Device type: Removable CD-ROM >Version: 0 >Response Form

Re: cdrecord-1.10 can't load a disk on a Philips PCRW804

2001-08-13 Thread Seth Gordon
[Joerg Schilling:] Try to insert a non-deectice media What's "deectice"? I've tried a regular CD (the OpenBSD 2.6 distribution, which I assume does not have any fancy CD-copy-protection scheme on it), a blank CD-R, and a blank CD-RW. or return the drive to the manufacturer. I was afr

correction: burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
... I designated the writing speeds wrong previously. I used quadruple speed for the first two CD-Rs (as specified on the CD cover); and tried single speed for the last (third) one, which was overridden by cdrecord: it actually used double speed. Sorry for the reposting. L.É. -- To UNSUBSCR

problem burning 870 MB CD-Rs on Linux 2.2.16

2001-08-13 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
I use Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'LG ' Identifi

Re: cdrecord-1.10 can't load a disk on a Philips PCRW804

2001-08-13 Thread schilling
>From: Seth Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have kernel 2.4.7 (with generic SCSI and ATAPI-SCSI emulation >compiled in), Debian unstable, and cdrecord-1.10 on a machine with a >Philips PCRW804. The -scanbus, -prcap, and -eject options to cdrecord >give me the results I expect, but -load gives me a