Re: New tool for packing files into an ISO image

2012-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:50:46 -0800 BitBucket wrote: Tom: I'm a bit behind the curve (as a matter of policy, mostly). What would be an 'old' tool for packing files into an ISO image that you were improving upon? Looking for Windows GUI-based tools here, to pack offloads

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 10 Jan 2010 10:15:10 NZDT +1300, Bill Davidsen wrote: There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
read before the bug was fixed. There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program. Might that be what you are remembering? -- Bill Davidsen

Re: how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
, except all files and directories that refer to the previous session, which we could not easily find and should not need? What actually happens when you try to mount the session? That is, using the session= option to the mount command. What error message do you get? -- Bill Davidsen david

Re: NO SEEK COMPLETE: Input/output error when burning DVD+R DL

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
if (!strcmp(opt,-dvd-video)) { if (poor_man0) poor_man = 1; dvd_compat++, growisofs_argc++; So it might be worth to try a run without options -dvd-compat -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-video I should definitely leave the force unused. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We can't

Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?

2010-01-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: This is a limitation of cdrecord and programs derived from it. The growisofs program knows how to do this for DVD but can not do it for CD (one of my problems). In your case you can know the size of the image in advance because

Re: Wodim: How to read from stdin?

2010-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
for these little data sets. Mr Schilling noted that there seems a way to do this in some modes, but he provides no information on it. He's probably right that it could be done, but doesn't want ot say how for whatever reason. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We can't solve today's problems

Re: CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN CDB: not harmless?

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
at run time and O_DIRECT optionally at compile time. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them. - Einstein

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
curious, I'll accept that you have tried this and found some really bad behavior, but what is less tolerable than burning a series of coasters? I think growisofs uses O_EXCL and I don't recall any behavior after burning which made me unhappy. In your experience, what breaks? -- Bill Davidsen david

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Bill Davidsen: the OS provides tools by which applications can prevent this, if the applications fail to use them than the fix lies in the application (and the user who chose the application). I would really like to implement a hald cooperation module

Re: Is dvd-r not supported in cdrecord?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
the application). One program is hal, as Joerg noted, but there are others. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence.

Re: My Pioneer DVR-218L i think is behaving like the LG GH20NS10 might hang at the end of DVD-R[W] DAO recording...

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
as fake as those Pitsberg Stealers (that's the way they spell it) sweatshirts you see at roadside stands near football games. If available, one should have a look to k3b logs I guess... -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.7.2

2009-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and has maintained and improved his software for a decade. Anyone reading this list in historical context will know I'm not his fanboy (;-)), but I do use his software for a number of things. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.7.2

2009-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
amusement value. My humble suggestion: everyone should tone the rhetoric. Surely all the points have already been made. Continued sniping reflects badly on everyone. As a user, I'm thankful for Joerg *and* everyone else who has helped to develop this code. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com

Re: solaris cdrecord BH08LS20 drive BD-R problems

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
, the addition of bs=2M (2MB) will make a bunch of difference. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org

Re: cdrtools-2.01.01a66 ready

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
, but I'm happy to see work on this. TODO: - Support correct inode numbers for UDF hardlinks - Support sockets, pipes, char/blk-dev specials with UDF Another thing I will try before I comment. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.7.2

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
1 CDs meanwhile. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Unintended results are the well-earned reward for incompetence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org

BD format info

2009-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
need is a Linux tool to take those clips in original or transformed form, and create a disk which will play in a standard Blu-Ray player. Running Fedora if anyone cares. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user

Re: rename functions as they conflict with glibc

2009-06-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
views as having merit hasn't changed, neither will the decision to use a hack on you old code. The problem is of your making. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the vi line edit mode selected

Re: cdrtools 2.01.01a59: Compiling problems

2009-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: The build appeared to be doing just that, even though I unpacked into a totally clean subdirectory which did not exist before the unpack. So to be absolutely sure I was starting from clean, I did a make clean which also appears

Re: Odd messages from cdrecord

2009-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have been getting some odd warnings (see WARNING) in the attachments) about media size, and the time to start burning is sometimes several minutes. I see this on four machines, built recently, some DVD some DVD-D/L capable, some running very recent versions of cdrtools

Re: Odd messages from cdrecord

2009-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Let me know if more information is useful. Looks as if the attachment got stripped by the incoming mailer, let me try another type... The message you probaly refer to would be correct for the original DVD-R from

Odd messages from cdrecord

2009-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Of course taking a minute or tow off the start time would be really great if there's a trick to do so. Let me know if more information is useful. -- bill davidsen david...@tmr.com CTO TMR Associates, Inc You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back

Re: Announcing xorriso-0.3.6

2009-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
a measure of which OS generates more revenue than it costs to maintain. -- bill davidsen david...@tmr.com CTO TMR Associates, Inc You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back. - Representative Earl Pomeroy, Democrat of North Dakota on the A.I.G. executives

Re: is my drive defect - request for comments

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
, as well. I have been using cdrtools for many years now and it had worked and is working flawlessly except on this new hardware. Helmut. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: dvd+rw-tools 7.1: Compiling problems on new eisfair2

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andy Polyakov wrote: while never having problems to compile on the eisfair1-serverproject I'm unable to compile dvd+rw-tools on the upcoming eisfair2. I got: eisfair2 # make make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/dvd+rw-tools-7.1' g++ -O2 -fno-exceptions -D_REENTRANT -c -o growisofs_mmc.o

Re: cdrecord floating point exception

2009-02-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
as is, and insist hald is at fault. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Is ulimit -l unlimited or limit memorylocked unlimited still needed?

2009-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
a warning at runtime, nor a problem with function. Nor would any of my systems let a normal user lock all of memory, that's a problem waiting to happen. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto

Re: Burned or not burned? dvd+rw-mediainfo can't decide

2009-01-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
on that same media, then burn it in the same way, and see if that make a difference. I have not had a problem with any of my players, in fact I had several commercial DVDs which wouldn't play in one until I burned a copy, but DVD players are not yet a completely deterministic technology. -- Bill

Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: The best solution for that problem is to kill hald ;-) kill -STOP ` pgrep hald ` Noted. Since the only mode which seems to have a hope of working is TAO from what people have said, raw96r seems to be a side track

Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: - Use cdrecord (or one of the plug-compatible substitutes) in TAO burning mode. Rather than one of the raw modes? I found several posts suggesting that the magic was 'raw96r' or similar. I believe I tried

Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dave Platt wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: This is not ISO9660 data. I want the burner program to take my bits and put them on the media, nothing else. The data is in 64k chunks, so all writes are sector complete. I haven't had any issues with reading the data off DVD, or off CD in the case

Re: Growisofs input cache -- Patch

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: In Run 1 there were several buffer underruns which slowed the DVD recorders down. In Run 2 the buffer was always at 100% (except for the end of course) :-). This seems reasonable, what were the performance numbers

Thoughts on writing CD from stdin

2009-01-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
be useful is [application]-[burning_software]-media without buffering. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org

Re: please decrypt cdrecord's error message

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
full, min fill was 100%. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org

Re: Growisofs input cache (get away from dd?)

2008-12-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Using O_DIRECT only looks totally useless when you look through the wrong end of the problem at how does it help the application instead of how does it avoid hurting the rest of the applications? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason

Re: Problems mounting DVD-RWs written with growisofs

2008-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
are in action even a previous if statement return true. If this explanation is right all comma seperated values should be found. That really looks like an unintended capability, but I agree that it should work. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without

Re: Announcing xorriso-0.2.6

2008-09-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
-session info might be ignored or misunderstood by DVD-ROM drives. In that case one has to help mount to find the youngest session. This problem does not apply to overwriteable media. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without

Re: Issues with cdrsin and USB devices on RHEL5

2008-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
/dev/hdX which are identified as disk by /proc/ide/hdX/media. And no buffer overflow with drive_scsi_dev_family=scd any more. may I say very nice work, and prompt as well. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when

Re: Issues with cdrsin and USB devices on RHEL5

2008-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
and/or readability you use let pos=pos+1 anyway. This is a cd burning list, not the alt.shell.pedantic newsgroup. Let's keep to the main topic. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Issues with cdrsin and USB devices on RHEL5

2008-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
put a patch on the problems. After the upcoming release i will reconsider that topic and make some larger changes in the Linux adapter of libburn. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von

Re: Issues with cdrsin and USB devices on RHEL5

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and assume that anything not on that list is not going to work for CD uses, no matter what it is, or thinks it is. /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Weird problem with RHEL5 isofs driver when using mkisofs -x --exclude options

2008-07-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
of dir1 are ok even without -find. Do you still see the message Unknown file type (unallocated) isotest/.. - ignoring and continuing. No -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von

Re: Weird problem with RHEL5 isofs driver when using mkisofs -x --exclude options

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
with the following patch, it should then work even without -find: Thank you for the patch. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Weird problem with RHEL5 isofs driver when using mkisofs -x --exclude options

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please check again with the following patch, it should then work even without -find: Thank you for the patch. Well, if a problem was described decently, I am usually able to explain how to correctly use

Re: cdrecord -scanbus problem

2008-06-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
root. You did not do that... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Why are my DVD+R DL only readable by root ?

2008-06-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
be sure I was not getting some other program calling itself cdrecord. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Burning a Windows / DVD player compatible DVD

2008-06-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
all my mpg files in 720x480 DVD format if they aren't already, I don't trust conversions to do it by magic. No magic trick. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: mkisofs -M makes no attempt to reconstruct multi-extent files

2008-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
, then your software is wrong anyway. Are you really doing this? I would think that since you don't want to use anything resembling a PVD found in that range, any application would be more robust not to look at all. Who knows what a hybrid disk might contain? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The future of mkisofs

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happily offer the suggestion that since the program has not been limited to ISO9660 images for years, the name implies limitations which don't apply, and since you can create images for most common optical media, that a name

Re: Announcing xorriso-0.1.6

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been on my someday list for a while, does it have the capability of taking a bootable image, letting me change the non-boot files, and then giving me another burnable image? I'm thinking Linux install disks

Re: WRITE@LBA=3e0c30h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error (DL)

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
and hardware. The Authors from k3b even started to look for the original cdrecord to be able to use this instead of the plagiat. Fewer complaints to them, I would think. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war

Re: mkisofs -M makes no attempt to reconstruct multi-extent files

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
lines of code. After my solution is ready, we still need some testing Jörg -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: mkisofs -M makes no attempt to reconstruct multi-extent files

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a setting up correct multi-extent file directory entry will work correctly. I'm curious how you handle the case where the file shrinks and no longer needs multi-extent. I hope that's clear, I don't have a better

Re: WRITE@LBA=3e0c30h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error (DL)

2008-05-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
program. I feel the same way as I do when I order coke and get pepsi, it's a scam. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The future of mkisofs

2008-05-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
images for most common optical media, that a name like mkoptimage would be more correct as well as preventing confusion. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Announcing xorriso-0.1.6

2008-05-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
media, from scratch if need be, I don't much enjoy the steps. :-( -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: More Dual-Layer burning oddities

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
vendor will say it's a firmware fix, and the burner vendor will call it a work-around for media problems. In either case I'd try different media just for the data point, if another major brand fails, I'd blame the burner. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war

Re: mkisofs -graft-points not working?

2008-04-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you do here did never work as you believe.. You are using incorrect syntax. What I have been doing has been working for years, and worked with the mkisofs from wodim, and with mkisofs 2.01a12 (i686-pc-linux

Re: mkisofs -graft-points not working?

2008-04-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing the recent cdrtools (a35), I started a backup script which writes all the backup information in a file and then creates an ISO image thus: mkisofs -o $DATE.iso -RU -graft-points -path-list $DATE.filelist

mkisofs -graft-points not working?

2008-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
17 2008 [-17 00] temp posidon:davidsen -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Announcing cdrskin-0.4.4

2008-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
goes on those USB drives. So if it is possible to run BD-RE at 9.5 MB/s without too many misburns, then it is better than nothing. Still not good, i confess. I hope Giulio will tell us about his experiences. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without

Re: Odd message from cdrecord

2008-04-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot help if your DVD drive is slow or has other deficits that make the DMA speed test reporting too low numbers. This is not a cdrecord problem but a problem of your hardware or your OS. Since the hardware

Odd message from cdrecord

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
of some kind with deciding which speed to use, and speeds of 6x as working. This is just FYI, I only use this setup to burn complete DVD images from precreated files (mkisofs+dvdisaster) and this isn't keeping me from backing up old data. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto

Re: Odd message from cdrecord

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord 2.01.01a35 (built from source), USB attached litescribe drive, TDK 16x DVD-R media. Recording is refused with a message DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed 16x. Since growisofs writes at 12x

Re: Odd message from cdrecord

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord 2.01.01a35 (built from source), USB attached litescribe drive, TDK 16x DVD-R media. Recording is refused with a message DMA speed

Re: Blanking/Formating a BD-RE

2008-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
to do the same function, it would help clarify the nature of the problem, and obviously the solution. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
for now. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Help: Burning multisession DVD+R with cdrecord 2.01.01a37

2008-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] whined again and trolled: I think [1] is a hint, I bet you used a vendor hack of growisofs instead of downloading and building the real program from source. That doesn't mean I promise it will work for you, just that you know what you

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
DVR-104 ' Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: Doesn't wodim close disk ?

2008-01-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
problem? Note that you did not yet report any real problem. My answers are all bases on the known bugs in wodim and on your claim that the medium is not readable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war

Re: problem with BD sessions after 4GB

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
should not be done. The logic to skip this test may be failing. Of course the media check could be put into the test instead of your debug 0 to be sure this media is allowed to be large. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Bill Davidsen: blockdev --setra 0 /dev/hdc This does not match the behavior on my oldish system either. First suspicios thing: # blockdev --getra /dev/hdg 8 That would be 8 x 512 = 2 x 2048 bytes. So 4 kB should be a upper limit for the loss

Re: Using dd to verify a dvd and avoid the readahead bug.

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
records out Could someone please tell me: 1) Is this the dreaded readahead bug again? No. 2) Can I use dd to verify my burns and avoid the readahead bug? yes. 3) If not, how can I verify my dvd burn? You did, the burn is bad. Thank you for your help. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL

Proper write mode for VCD

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
by search doesn't prevent including a bit more information, such as RFCs, titles of papers the software author found useful, etc. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for being willing to help track this, it really would be nice to understand it. I'm guessing it's not in the driver itself but in the command filter, simply because this behavior has been seen in various hardware

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: If the Linux developers would take similar problems more seriously, they could have been fixed long ago. If other programs do not fail, this does not verify a problem in cdrecord. We have the case

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ubuntu ships wodim and most of my testing has been post-wodim-removal. But we'll see how that goes. I had remarkable success there before when I brought up alsa problems. Does ubuntu still use wodim? I thought that there was a move to go back to cdrtools. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
from future questions. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
hardware. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No supported write modes with LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD+RW

2007-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
something different, and that's a technical problem, not an evil conspiracy. Jörg -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: dvd+rw-tools multisession recording fails after a few sessions

2007-09-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
to ~1GB, then copy to DVD sessions if needed. This really sounds like just use of inappropriate technology. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do not seem to be interested in a solution but in writing offensive rants only. Otherwise, you did follow the advise you have been given. Vcdimager creates a *.cue and a *.bin file. Cdrecord allows you to use cuefile

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of the problems I have been having with DVD seems to be related to using DVD+R media. While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't work in most readers. And since locally they are cheaper and burn much faster, I

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you mention VCD, what is the correct burning magic for cdrskin? I've created images with vcdimager, but they are cuefile+bin, which is not supported. Is there a software which produces a single burnable image

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you mention VCD, what is the correct burning magic for cdrskin? I've created images with vcdimager, but they are cuefile+bin, which is not supported. Is there a software which produces a single burnable image

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
/scdN for another experiment proposal. Thank you, there may be wisdom there, or at least more to try. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
thoughts welcome. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
device, I wonder if you would get the same problems. It may be case that Solaris applications just don't create the problme than the o/s solving it. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to blank / zero out / nullify a dvd-rw?

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
a happy user. I haven't needed it on live data, but I did mess up a dvd until it was unreadble, then recover it as a test. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux problems

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
for cdrskin? I've created images with vcdimager, but they are cuefile+bin, which is not supported. Is there a software which produces a single burnable image? -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paragraph 4.3.7 DVD+R Dual Layer is much more detailed about the layer hop. Nevertheless there is a statement which makes me believe it is worth a try to just write to it as to a fat DVD+R. That seems to work. I did

Re: Linux problems

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
, applications will change to use the solution. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Bill Davidsen: I did recently discover that it [cdrskin] has limitations doing odd raw burns, but that's not a usual requirement, Would it be indiscrete to ask for the use case and what cdrecord write mode option you wanted to apply ? Not in the least, I

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools/ This page is temporarily down because of spammer attacks; until it comes back, you can download dvdrtools from svn ... Now who would do a thing like that? Who can

Re: VCD

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
can't find information on what size it uses by default. Bah! But I do see that option. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
can download dvdrtools from svn ... Now who would do a thing like that? Who can understand the anti-social mind anyway? -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
on DVD+R DL: The Host is permitted to select a smaller address for this location (See 6.34). 6.34 describes MMC command BFh SEND DISC STRUCTURE. I guess they mean: 6.34.3.2.4 Format = 20h: Layer Boundary Information I would be interested to learn about your opinion and experiences. -- bill

Re: cdrecord problems

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
. This mailing list is not restricted, and the original cdwrite program has not been mentioned in years, and AFAIK there never was a branch of it for any purpose. So any discussion of technology for writing data to optical media is on topic. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

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