Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Frederick Page wrote: I noticed, there is no more downgrading of DMA mode. I did some more tests, rebooted some more and to me it looks like this: - cdda2wav only works with suid and drive in PIO-mode.

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:49:28PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: How do you believe that you may run cdrecord without root privs without compromising the security of the whole system? On OpenBSD, members of the operator group are allowed to reboot the

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Just download from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ I did, but then encountered some difficulties when burning CD-RW on the fly via cdrecord's stdin : Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01b31 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling

Re: Burning an hfs filesystem without mkisofs

2004-08-23 Thread csj
On 23. August 2004 at 12:24AM +0200, Andy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Robert Leslie's hfsutils I have created on disk the HFS filesystem image hfs.img. I can mount hfs.img loopback and can read and write files to it. Now would a straight cdrecord hfs.img produce a CD that a

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord Hmmm, that's pretty good. Do you think you could make all the other programs use that file too? If I define my CD-RW as QueFire in that file,

Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8: File is too large

2004-08-23 Thread scdbackup
me Is there a relation between -dvd-compat with DVD+RW and ... ... readability of the data's tail by the common Linux drivers ?) Andy common Linux drivers rely on value returned by READ CAPACITY command. The value most commonly coincides with lead-out position and is believed and was

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-23 Thread scdbackup
me cdrecord: Must specify track size(s). Next i set the CDR_SECURITY variable and shwoops my pipe did work. It is reproducible: unset CDR_SECURITY spoils it again. Joerg Without CDR_SECURITY, a max size if 1 GB os allowed I see your point. The tracksize was unknown - man cdrecord

Re: Burning an hfs filesystem without mkisofs

2004-08-23 Thread Andy Polyakov
HFS volumes you put on CD still require Apple partition table. So the question is if hfsutils generate one. The latter kind of goes beyond the scope of discussions on this list:-) So the question now is: is thre a way to add this partition table to the hfs volume? Does the fact that you pose this

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 06:56, Joerg Schilling wrote: Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord Hmmm, that's pretty good. Do you think you could make all the other programs use

Re: Burning an hfs filesystem without mkisofs

2004-08-23 Thread Ambrose Li
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Andy Polyakov wrote: Does the fact that you pose this question mean that hfsutils do not generate partition table? Once again, this kind of goes beyond the scope of discussions on this list. I mean hfsutils maintainer is probably more appropriate

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 06:56, Joerg Schilling wrote: Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord Hmmm, that's pretty good. Do you

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:09, Joerg Schilling wrote: Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 06:56, Joerg Schilling wrote: It seems that you don't know that dd uses a completely different access method for the device. That's an implementation detail that doesn't need

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dd operates at UNIX block/raw device level SCSI Generic operates _below_ this level and thus uses a different naming scheme Same thing with networking: * Mozilla operates at the HTTP/TCP level. * ping operates _below_ this level but does

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Are there objections against having the only track of a CD ending with 300+ kB of _ non-zero _ pad bytes rather than the padding provided by cdrecord padsize=... or mkisofs -pad ? A short is ok or better pad 300 kB zeros would be of help. If this 300kb (150 sectors, 2 seconds) is to

Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
SCSI Generic operates _below_ this level and thus uses a different naming scheme Same thing with networking: * Mozilla operates at the HTTP/TCP level. True, and nobody cares about SCSI generic because it's neither necessary to know nor does anyone want to know (especially for IDE

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2004-08-23 Thread msc_world
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Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)

2004-08-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:40, Joerg Schilling wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dd operates at UNIX block/raw device level SCSI Generic operates _below_ this level and thus uses a different naming scheme Same thing