Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
> >> Plase name the Pioneer model number... > > How can I can get it? > > Via google search for example. It's the same as the A06. Yes, seems that is A06. Anybody tried to flash it with a Pioneer firmware? Thanks! > > regards > Markus > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
> If you can"t, describe the features in less than 100 characters. :) DVD-ROM (single and dual layer), DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, DVD-R (Vers 2.00), DVD-RW (Ver 1.0 + 1.1), DVD+R (Ver 1.0 + 1.1), DVD+RW (Ver 1.2), DVD-RAM DVD-R: DAO, Incremental recording, multi-border recording DVD-RW: Restricted overw

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> With DVD+RW there is a bug in the firmware that causes a quick format not > to work as expected. You need to wait a long time after you formatted a > media for the first time The wait is 2:45min instead of the expected 0:45min, and only the first time ever the media is used. Who cares... > and

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Sergio Visinoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Your problem is not related to cdrecord but to an illegal program >> with is a hack on the real cdrecord and violates the GPL. If you need hel= >p, >> you need to contact the person who is responsible for the distribution. >I agree that if you're not t

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> With DVD+RW there is a bug in the firmware that causes a quick format not > to work as expected. You need to wait a long time after you formatted a > media for the first time The wait is 2:45min instead of the expected 0:45min, and only the first time ever the media is used. Who cares... > and

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Sergio Visinoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Your problem is not related to cdrecord but to an illegal program >> with is a hack on the real cdrecord and violates the GPL. If you need hel= >p, >> you need to contact the person who is responsible for the distribution. >I agree that if you're not t

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Sergio Visinoni
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm trying to get my LG GSA-4040B attached to a RedHat 8 box burn a iso > >doing > >"dvdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy /iso/shrike-i386-disc1.iso", but nothing ^^^

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Going by my own observation and not what someone tells me, it seems random >> >access write to DVD+RW is rather easier than to DVD-RW. I don't have to >> >blank the disk, and it still works at 0.1x speed. Andy's DVD+RW kernel patch >> >isn't meant for D

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >As for DVD-RW on the other hand. If *minimally* formatted for Restricted >Overwrite, DVD-RW still can be recorded only *sequentially*. This makes >it virtually impossible to use *minimally* formatted DVD-RW media for >housing of live read-write file system

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >>> >Do you know any problems with this drive? >I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well >supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just >fine. >>> Plase name the Pione

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 27 15:27:57 2003 >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? >> >Thanks, Joerg! >> Plase name the Pioneer model number... >How can I can get it? If you can"t, describe the features in less than 100 characters. Jörg -- EMa

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by >> Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. >Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session >command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time a

PXUpdate / PX-708A

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
For all who might be interested, Today, I received the needed information to add Support for the 708 to the firmware upgrade tool. But even if I would immediaely create a new version you would need to wait until Plextor supplies us with plain vanilla firmware that is not hidden inside a DOS execu

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Sergio Visinoni
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm trying to get my LG GSA-4040B attached to a RedHat 8 box burn a iso doing > >"dvdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy /iso/shrike-i386-disc1.iso", but nothing ^^

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >Do you know any problems with this drive? Plase name the Pioneer model number... TEAC uses simular names for different drives so it is hard to help. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm trying to get my LG GSA-4040B attached to a RedHat 8 box burn a iso doing >"dvdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy /iso/shrike-i386-disc1.iso", but nothing >is written and I'm note sure what the error is. The disk is a DVD-R. >-Ole Jacob >dvdrtoo

Re: Plextor-Linux-DMA-problems (was cdrtools-2.01a19 - strange errors)

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 26 12:55:59 2003 >> His problems are caused by the fact that he did not read README.verify >> and README.copy. >> >Probably it isn't cdrecord's fault since a >readcd -c2scan >shows a perfect CD. >Now I have disabled DMA for the Plextor drive and now these errors

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Going by my own observation and not what someone tells me, it seems random >> >access write to DVD+RW is rather easier than to DVD-RW. I don't have to >> >blank the disk, and it still works at 0.1x speed. Andy's DVD+RW kernel patch >> >isn't meant for D

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >As for DVD-RW on the other hand. If *minimally* formatted for Restricted >Overwrite, DVD-RW still can be recorded only *sequentially*. This makes >it virtually impossible to use *minimally* formatted DVD-RW media for >housing of live read-write file system

Re: growisofs for cd-RW and DVD-RW?

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Is there a tool like growisofs which workds with CD-R and/or DVD-R? growisofs works with *all* DVD media types, yes, including DVD-R and DVD-RW, and even supports *all* recording strategies. No, growisofs does not work with nor is planned to work with CD-R[W]. My standpoint on the latter is that

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 25 21:25:50 2003 >> The PIoneer drives in contrast will try to write to any medium but they >> will use a specific slow write strategy in this case. >Interesting. Sounds much more customer-friendly. And the Plextor? My experiences with Plextor show that a high

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Markus Plail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >>> >Do you know any problems with this drive? >I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well >supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just >fine. >>> Plase name the Pione

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 27 15:27:57 2003 >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? >> >Thanks, Joerg! >> Plase name the Pioneer model number... >How can I can get it? If you can"t, describe the features in less than 100 characters. Jörg -- EMa

Re: Plextor DMA problem on Linux

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I've a puzzling problem and hope someone's experience >can help me. >I have quite a recent Plextor 48/24/48 burner attached to my Linux >system (currently 2.4.23-rc2) >This drive has been running initially with my kernel which enables >DMA by default.

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by >> Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. >Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session >command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time a

PXUpdate / PX-708A

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
For all who might be interested, Today, I received the needed information to add Support for the 708 to the firmware upgrade tool. But even if I would immediaely create a new version you would need to wait until Plextor supplies us with plain vanilla firmware that is not hidden inside a DOS execu

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >Do you know any problems with this drive? Plase name the Pioneer model number... TEAC uses simular names for different drives so it is hard to help. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: LG GSA-4040B and dvdwrite

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm trying to get my LG GSA-4040B attached to a RedHat 8 box burn a iso doing >"dvdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy /iso/shrike-i386-disc1.iso", but nothing >is written and I'm note sure what the error is. The disk is a DVD-R. >-Ole Jacob >dvdrtoo

Re: Plextor-Linux-DMA-problems (was cdrtools-2.01a19 - strange errors)

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 26 12:55:59 2003 >> His problems are caused by the fact that he did not read README.verify >> and README.copy. >> >Probably it isn't cdrecord's fault since a >readcd -c2scan >shows a perfect CD. >Now I have disabled DMA for the Plextor drive and now these errors

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> > Only once fully formated (which > >takes 1 hour for 1x media), DVD-RW permits for random write, but with > >32KB granularity. Latter means that you either have to have special > >kernel driver which would arrange for 32KB granularity or modify file > >system code to do same thing. Now note that

Re: growisofs for cd-RW and DVD-RW?

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Is there a tool like growisofs which workds with CD-R and/or DVD-R? growisofs works with *all* DVD media types, yes, including DVD-R and DVD-RW, and even supports *all* recording strategies. No, growisofs does not work with nor is planned to work with CD-R[W]. My standpoint on the latter is that

Re: Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 25 21:25:50 2003 >> The PIoneer drives in contrast will try to write to any medium but they >> will use a specific slow write strategy in this case. >Interesting. Sounds much more customer-friendly. And the Plextor? My experiences with Plextor show that a high

Re: Plextor DMA problem on Linux

2003-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I've a puzzling problem and hope someone's experience >can help me. >I have quite a recent Plextor 48/24/48 burner attached to my Linux >system (currently 2.4.23-rc2) >This drive has been running initially with my kernel which enables >DMA by default.

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> The best recording quality and readability is caused by writing in SAO mode. The best compatibility among DVD- recording strategies, yes. The DVD Forum can't possibly maintain that it's best mode *ever*. > DVD+R usually does not know the size of the medium when it starts > writing and therefore

Re: blanking a dvd-rw with dvd+rw-tools

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> After having no success with cdrecord.prodvd, I have tried to blank a > Memorex dvd-rw. The blanking process seemed to be fine, but I get the > same mediainfo before the blanking than after it. Well, same info isn't necessarily wrong... > Bellow you have the result. > Disc status: a

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> > Only once fully formated (which > >takes 1 hour for 1x media), DVD-RW permits for random write, but with > >32KB granularity. Latter means that you either have to have special > >kernel driver which would arrange for 32KB granularity or modify file > >system code to do same thing. Now note that

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> >> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made > >> by > >> Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. > > > >Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session > >command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time as the field in > >questio

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> The best recording quality and readability is caused by writing in SAO mode. The best compatibility among DVD- recording strategies, yes. The DVD Forum can't possibly maintain that it's best mode *ever*. > DVD+R usually does not know the size of the medium when it starts > writing and therefore

cdrecord and multisession audio/data cd's?

2003-11-27 Thread John Clemens
I'm trying to use cdrecord to master a CD image to boot my Dreamcast.. Several sights say to master a 2-session cd, with the first session containing an audio track and the second containing your raw data image (in XA1 format). Several places on the net give the following commands to do this: cdr

Re: blanking a dvd-rw with dvd+rw-tools

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> After having no success with cdrecord.prodvd, I have tried to blank a > Memorex dvd-rw. The blanking process seemed to be fine, but I get the > same mediainfo before the blanking than after it. Well, same info isn't necessarily wrong... > Bellow you have the result. > Disc status: a

growisofs for cd-RW and DVD-RW?

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there a tool like growisofs which workds with CD-R and/or DVD-R? I have had no problem using cdrecord and dvdrecord, but growisofs looked like a convenient tool to reduce the effort of multisession. I have no problem with dvdrecord other than it seeming to use PIO instead of DMA for burning,

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> >> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by > >> Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. > > > >Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session > >command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time as the field in > >question was

cdrecord and multisession audio/data cd's?

2003-11-27 Thread John Clemens
I'm trying to use cdrecord to master a CD image to boot my Dreamcast.. Several sights say to master a 2-session cd, with the first session containing an audio track and the second containing your raw data image (in XA1 format). Several places on the net give the following commands to do this: cdr

growisofs for cd-RW and DVD-RW?

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there a tool like growisofs which workds with CD-R and/or DVD-R? I have had no problem using cdrecord and dvdrecord, but growisofs looked like a convenient tool to reduce the effort of multisession. I have no problem with dvdrecord other than it seeming to use PIO instead of DMA for burning,

blanking a dvd-rw with dvd+rw-tools

2003-11-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
After having no success with cdrecord.prodvd, I have tried to blank a Memorex dvd-rw. The blanking process seemed to be fine, but I get the same mediainfo before the blanking than after it. Bellow you have the result. Of course, I didn't get growisofs (through k3b) to burn any files on the dvd.

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just fine. >> Plase name the Pioneer mo

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. > >Do you know any problems with this drive? > Thanks, Joerg! > Plase name the Pioneer model number... How can I can get it? > TEAC uses simular names for different drives so it is hard to help. Hm, I understand. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

blanking a dvd-rw with dvd+rw-tools

2003-11-27 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
After having no success with cdrecord.prodvd, I have tried to blank a Memorex dvd-rw. The blanking process seemed to be fine, but I get the same mediainfo before the blanking than after it. Bellow you have the result. Of course, I didn't get growisofs (through k3b) to burn any files on the dvd.

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. >> >Do you know any problems with this drive? I think Pioneer's and thus (most of) Teacs DVD writers are fairly well supported. I have the A05 clone from Teac (DV-W50E) and it works just fine. >> Plase name the Pioneer mo

Re: TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
> >I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. > >Do you know any problems with this drive? > Thanks, Joerg! > Plase name the Pioneer model number... How can I can get it? > TEAC uses simular names for different drives so it is hard to help. Hm, I understand. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Lindauer
> I just bought Imation 2.4x DVD+R and it works fine w/ growisofs. Now that I call dedication - Thanks :) But I should have mentioned mine are 4x (what do you want with a 708 that can do 8x and media for 2.4?) Anyways, it is quite strange, as my Imation have the identical ATIP (RICOHJPN/R01) like

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Florian Lindauer
> I just bought Imation 2.4x DVD+R and it works fine w/ growisofs. Now that I call dedication - Thanks :) But I should have mentioned mine are 4x (what do you want with a 708 that can do 8x and media for 2.4?) Anyways, it is quite strange, as my Imation have the identical ATIP (RICOHJPN/R01) like

Re: /dev/raw/raw? and growisofs and DVD+R

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> I'm using a PX-708A with DVD+R Verbatim disks. > > But its very slow. First of all, make sure you use at least growisofs 5.11. 5.11 addresses DVD+ performance problem with Pioneer unit, but later it became apparent that Plextor unit would exhibit same performance degradation. If you already use

TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
Hello, list! I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. Do you know any problems with this drive? Thank you very much! --- Catalin(ux) BOIE [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by > Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time as the field in question was extended to two by

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Dyson
I just bought Imation 2.4x DVD+R and it works fine w/ growisofs. -Dyson Florian Lindauer wrote: All that you can find within this thread. cdrecord-proDVD does not work with DVD-R (does not start recording) and got stuck on session close with DVD+R. growisofs works for most media, but not with Imat

Re: /dev/raw/raw? and growisofs and DVD+R

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> I'm using a PX-708A with DVD+R Verbatim disks. > > But its very slow. First of all, make sure you use at least growisofs 5.11. 5.11 addresses DVD+ performance problem with Pioneer unit, but later it became apparent that Plextor unit would exhibit same performance degradation. If you already use

TEAC DV-W50D

2003-11-27 Thread Catalin BOIE
Hello, list! I want to buy a TEAC DV-W50D. Do you know any problems with this drive? Thank you very much! --- Catalin(ux) BOIE [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Andy Polyakov
> There is another problem with DVD+, it seems that all DVD+ drives not made by > Ricoh don't follow the SCSI standards. Special meaning for value of FF in Track Number in Close Track/Session command was removed already in MMC-2. At the same time as the field in question was extended to two by

Re: DVD recording adventures continued

2003-11-27 Thread Dyson
I just bought Imation 2.4x DVD+R and it works fine w/ growisofs. -Dyson Florian Lindauer wrote: All that you can find within this thread. cdrecord-proDVD does not work with DVD-R (does not start recording) and got stuck on session close with DVD+R. growisofs works for most media, but not with I

Re: cdrtools & linux 2.6.0

2003-11-27 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > short question: > > Does cdrtools work on a linux 2.6.0 based machine ? Yes, very good ;-) (with ide-scsi, or real scsi) Grégoire http:/

Re: cdrtools & linux 2.6.0

2003-11-27 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > short question: > > Does cdrtools work on a linux 2.6.0 based machine ? Yes, very good ;-) (with ide-scsi, or real scsi) Grégoire http:/