Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > AFAIK stream i/o will not disable defect repair, so this protection > will still be active I doubt it does checkread for badly written blocks. The increased speed indicates we successfully disabled normal defect management. If the drive encounters a perceivable error during write then it m

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Thomas Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > So, basically, using streaming i/o will compensate "for free" (I mean > > you get exactly the same result on disc as not using streaming) the > > slow down caused by defect management? > > It depends on the nu

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The cost effective solution for too much cheap disk may be more cheap disk. Indeed. Having enough disk buffer for the whole backup can solve most of the problems caused by the disproportion of size and speed with BD-RE. One could direct the backup to external disk on the first hand and thu

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i wrote: Like: 1 hour 40 minutes is too long for a backup window. Rob Bogus wrote: That I can accept, I was going to post something similar. This all would be no issue if there was an alternative to BD-RE media like there are alternatives to DVD-R

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > i made some changes to the WRITE12 streaming commands. > Now it works with both DVD-RAM and BD-RE! > md5sums match. I'm good in guessing :)) Now it works for your one BD-RE drive, your DVD-RAM drive and my DVD-RAM drives. At least it gives hope that a substantial fraction of other drive

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i made some changes to the WRITE12 streaming commands. > With DVD-RAM the last buffer of a write session is > padded up to its full size. > With BD-RE the buffer size is set to 64 KiB Now it works with both DVD-RAM a