Re: Cdrecord!

2005-11-28 Thread Markus Plail
Rüdiger Greeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Schilling wrote: You are a victim of unplanned changes in the Linux kernel and it may be that you run software that is not used on Linux by default. Is there a plan about Linux changes? I just found a 'final word' about udev vs. devfs that was

Re: c2scan of DVDs??

2004-12-01 Thread Markus Plail
Thanos Kyritsis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 01:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: As Plextor is the only company that includes a reliable way to check the errors, Yet, I cannot understand why it is Plextor specifically the only one that includes a reliable way. Plextor

Re: Recover DVD written too fast?

2004-04-08 Thread Markus Plail
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What way could I know if my media is low quality? In all cases I think my DVD could go to the thrash, yes? dvd+rw-mediainfo gives me: INQUIRY:[SONY][DVD RW DRU-500A ][2.0h] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 11h,

Re: Recover DVD written too fast?

2004-04-08 Thread Markus Plail
Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What way could I know if my media is low quality? In all cases I think my DVD could go to the thrash, yes? dvd+rw-mediainfo gives me: INQUIRY:[SONY][DVD RW DRU-500A ][2.0h] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 11h,

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
Hallo Hendrik! Hendrik Hoeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Du hattest von etwa zwei Wochen auf drf Dein 80-200/2.8 angeboten. Gibt's das noch, oder ist es schon verkauft? Das ist leider schon weg. In der Newsgroup hatte sich damals aber niemand gemeldet. Servus Markus PS: Sorry, dass ich an

Re: Canon EF 80-200 L

2004-03-11 Thread Markus Plail
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Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-19 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. I had always

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-19 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. I had always

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-17 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. regards markus

Re: linux 2.5/6 and cdrecord

2003-12-13 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bit OT. But I received an email from someone who asserted that dev=x,x,x breaks on kernel 2.5, which requires dev=/dev/blaa. Is this by any chance true? Does cdrecord dev=0,0,0 cdrom.iso still work under linux 2.5+? It works if you use ide-scsi. If you don't and

Re: linux 2.5/6 and cdrecord

2003-12-13 Thread Markus Plail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bit OT. But I received an email from someone who asserted that dev=x,x,x breaks on kernel 2.5, which requires dev=/dev/blaa. Is this by any chance true? Does cdrecord dev=0,0,0 cdrom.iso still work under linux 2.5+? It works if you use ide-scsi. If you don't and

Re: cdrecord starts slow and speeds up later

2003-12-02 Thread Markus Plail
Gil Disatnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a dvd/cdrw combo on my D600 laptop, when using cdrecord to burn cds the burning process starts at x10 speed, after 168MB it goes up to x16 speed and only after 502MB it finally reaches x24 speed. That's normal behaviour for certain cd writers. It's

Re: cdrecord starts slow and speeds up later

2003-12-02 Thread Markus Plail
Gil Disatnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a dvd/cdrw combo on my D600 laptop, when using cdrecord to burn cds the burning process starts at x10 speed, after 168MB it goes up to x16 speed and only after 502MB it finally reaches x24 speed. That's normal behaviour for certain cd writers. It's

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 model

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 model

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? I need a writeable _block device_. I have _no problems_ using cdrecord or growisofs (w/ poor man's access method). Ah.. sorry. No I meant with cdrecord. regards Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: If I understand correctly, the use of ide-scsi under 2.6 is deprecated. More or less, yes. However, I am unable to write to /dev/hdx directly under 2.6.0-test8. With what kind of errors? This works with the patched ide-scsi and sr_mod. Patched? With

Re: writeable block device for dvd+rw under 2.6 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Csaba Halasz wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? I need a writeable _block device_. I have _no problems_ using cdrecord or growisofs (w/ poor man's access method). Ah.. sorry. No I meant with cdrecord. regards Markus

Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-10-25 Thread Markus Plail
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Rob Bogus wrote: I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been having problems with 2.01a19 and audio as well. This week I have burned 17 data CDs without *any* problem, and using the same media and burner had to try eight times to finally get one single

Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-10-25 Thread Markus Plail
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Rob Bogus wrote: I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been having problems with 2.01a19 and audio as well. This week I have burned 17 data CDs without *any* problem, and using the same media and burner had to try eight times to finally get one single

Re: DVD in dummy write works, but not real mode? (linux 2.6.0-test7 ide-cd)

2003-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a11 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited features: This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: private/research/educational_non-commercial_use TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM

Re: DVD in dummy write works, but not real mode? (linux 2.6.0-test7 ide-cd)

2003-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a11 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited features: This copy of cdrecord is licensed for: private/research/educational_non-commercial_use TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM

Re: Burning audio disc literally 30x the system load of data disc

2003-08-20 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:17:36AM -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: No, there is a patch to the 2.4 kernel to use DMA when burning audio, at least for some earlier kernels. Where is that patch available then? I am quite sure that there's no such thing. There

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:54:03AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: I have two questions concerning burning with/without burn-free: The first: How fast is it theoretically possible with an UDMA100 harddisk to burn *without* burnfree

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
Jul 2003, Markus Plail wrote: That's only true for non 2048 block sizes (audio, (S)VCD, RAW)). Does this mean * 2.6+ can talk to burner in DMA for all block sizes When using dev=/dev/hdX, yes, but Jörg doesn't like that implementation. or that * 2.4 can talk to burner in DMA, but only

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Joerg Schilling wrote: Let me make an example: A few weeks ago, Jeff Garzik announced a new SCSI interface for ATAPI. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10539253612r=3w=2 If you read this thread, you see that Linus obviously does not understand the background and

Re: two questions concerning fast burning and burn-free

2003-07-16 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anssi Saari wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:24:37AM +0200, Markus Plail wrote: or that * 2.4 can talk to burner in DMA, but only for 2048 block sizes. Yes, exactly. Why is it then that this problem seems to affect only VIA 686b and Intel ICH4 southbridges? I'll

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-04 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003, Andy Polyakov wrote: This is also a mystery... Why do 51s come in pairs... Test this: Great! Not 100% but I could successfully record a DVD and read it afterwards :-) Seems like fixation isn't yet 100% ready. /dev/hdd: FEATURE 21h is not on, engaging DAO...

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-04 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003, Markus Plail wrote: [something that shouldn't have gone here, sorry.] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd+rw-tools update

2003-06-02 Thread Markus Plail
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to be the same as with cdrecord. The TEAC DV-W50E is a Pioneer A05 with only the inquiry string changed. I know. As the A05 is known to work perfectly with cdrecord, I have no idea what problems you

Re: Does someone know how to cure the 2.5.59 kernel?

2003-02-07 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:19:06PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: And I cannot help any further as long as I don't get more information why the scsi command did fail :-( Could I do something? Why do you use a development kernel in the first place? regards Markus -- To

Add nero CD/DVD speed functionality to readcd

2003-01-19 Thread Markus Plail
Hi all, especially Jörg! As there is no such thing as C2-scans for DVD at the moment, I added an analyze funtion to readcd. It displays a variable count of read speeds when using readcd. In the end it can be used to display a nice graph using gnuplot. This is at least a better indication of the

Re: Status of ide writing?

2003-01-12 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: is it possible to burn without idescsi under 2.5.56? It would be a good idea to tell us what command line options you used. You could also try to burn CDs and see if that works. All I can tell you is, that I succesfully burned some CDs without ide-scsi in 2.5 kernels.

Re: Condition to burn DVD in speed 2?

2003-01-08 Thread Markus Plail
* Gregoire Favre writes: great, I thought I should change the license of cdrecord-prodvd... You can burn at least 4x with the free key provided in the README. That's mostly a limitation for the clone features of cdrecordPRODVD. regards Markus PS: I am quite sure you won't get the source code,

Re: mkisofs DVD-Video problem Help wanted

2002-12-20 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: as you might have noticed, there still is a problem in mkisofs: With at least one DVD-Video (ice age as sold in Germany) there is a problem when you try to create a UDF DVD from the file tree. If you call: mkisofs -o /tmp/DVD.out -dvd-video DVD-Video/ and get: The pad

Re: mkisofs DVD-Video problem Help wanted

2002-12-20 Thread Markus Plail
* Andy Polyakov writes: BTW, Markus! Can you confirm that remaining files are not renamed. I mean when it deletes 0-sized VTS_02_00.VOB, does it rename VTS_02_01.VOB to VTS_02_00.VOB or is it so that VTS_02_00.VOB is not present at all? They are not present at all. regards Markus -- To

Re: TEAC DV-W50E

2002-12-16 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: From: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I got the DVD writer, which is a clone of the Pioneer A05. I could flawlessly burn an ISO to a DVD-RW at speed 1x. I got an error messages though. Don't know if it is of any interest. I cannot see error messages. Executing 'log

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-12-04 Thread Markus Plail
* Markus Plail writes: * Len Sorensen writes: use 2048byte blocks, can't use dma on current linux kernels (supposedly it will be possible in 2.6 kernels). Audio would fit that category and hence use a lot more cpu. It is already possible in 2.5 kernels and I am still convinced that it's also

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-28 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: Yes, ATAPI. acer CDRW 2010A (crappy), ECS KSS5A with Athlon XP1800+. SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS735ATA 100 controller As soon as I disable DMA I

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:56:21PM -0600, David Bell wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:37, Len Sorensen wrote: I see NOTHING there that indicates if dma is on or off, only what is supported. The * does NOT indicate linux is using dma. /proc/ide/hd?/settings does, as might

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-27 Thread Markus Plail
* Len Sorensen writes: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Markus Plail wrote: It is already possible in 2.5 kernels and I am still convinced that it's also possible with 2.4 kernels. Just tested it once again. Audio CD at 20x speed with less than 3% CPU load (user+system). My kernel must

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-26 Thread Markus Plail
* David Bell writes: [high system load when doing anything other than burning plain data discs] Is this an issue in the kernel or cdrecord? Kernel. Is it expected to be fixed soon? Kinda fixed since 2.5.47 IIRC. ide_scsi isn't needed anymore, but readcd doesn't work yet. If not, if I put the

Re: High system load when burning audio CDs on VIA686B

2002-11-26 Thread Markus Plail
* David Bell writes: Yes, DMA is enabled on all drives: [12:50:51][root@david:/home/david]# hdparm -i /dev/hda hdparm -i isn't really appropriate here. You should use -v. man hdparm: -i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at boot time, if available. This is a

Re: Problems with readcd and Aopen CDROM drive

2002-11-02 Thread Markus Plail
* Lourens Veen writes: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Crane wrote: I followed up Jorg's suggestion of firmware updates for the Aopen but there appear to be none for that drive. Any suggestions for a workaround to force readcd to read only the true data/2048 sector-size? Failing that,

Re: Linux DMA-issues (was: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready)

2002-10-14 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Frederick! * Frederick Page writes: Markus Plail wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002: Again: the idle time is important. I'd say system time is important. I simply don't know (you might be right). I just watched the idle time and got quite a good feedback from it during my tests with the ATAPI writer

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Jörg! * Joerg Schilling writes: Note that the encoding speed is content dependant. Also note that due to a kernel design bug, Linux does not enable DMA for ATAPI drives if the sector size is != 2048 (as with RAW sector size 2448). This results in a high system load and may cause a buffer

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Jörg! * Joerg Schilling writes: From: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Joerg Schilling writes: Note that the encoding speed is content dependant. Also note that due to a kernel design bug, Linux does not enable DMA for ATAPI drives if the sector size is != 2048 (as with RAW sector size 2448

Re: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
* Joerg Schilling writes: From: Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have about 18% load at 16x with the new version. It says libedc is able to do 147x speed. The closed source version does 422x and a36 was about 125x IIRC. I am using a Athlon XP1800+ with CL2 DDRAM. Please run another test. Use

Re: Linux DMA-issues (was: cdrtools-1.11a37 ready)

2002-10-12 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Frederick! * Frederick Page writes: Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote on Sat, Oct 12 2002: The fact that Linux does not use DMA with ATAPI has ben reported by may people! For example in the Linux Kernel Mailing List, and one would assume, that those guys know what's going on. Yes, they should,

Re: Bug in ide-scsi transport?

2002-09-20 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Paul! * Paul R Culmo writes: I've been having some issues with CDrecord and cd burning in general with cdrecord and redhat 7.3 with the 2.4.19 kernel but it happens with the 2.4.18-3 kernel too. I have a HP CD-RW 24x10x40 and when burning at speeds higher than 8x the following error shows up

Re: DVD-RW/DVD+RW

2002-05-15 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Len! * Len Sorensen writes: I expect DVD+RW to die a quick death, or at least don't care if it survives. It hasn't delivered any of what it promised, and offers nothing as far as I can tell that DVD-R(W) doesn't already offer. The only advantage I see at the moment for DVD+R(W) is that

Re: Creating .inf files

2002-04-15 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Bill! * Bill Davidsen writes: I have some .wav files without and info files. These are not CD RIPs, the source predates CD by decades. Is there a good software to generate .inf files from the .wav files, other than the titles and artists, so I can fill them in? Platform is Linux. What I

Errors in one of the last sectors

2002-03-08 Thread Markus Plail
Hi! Burning CDs with the latest cdrtools (same behaviour with a13) I always get one unreadable sector. This sector is always one of the last and it's always only one defect sector. It's the same with two different CDR media (Kodak Ultima 80 (1-24x) and Memorex 80 16x) and two burners (Teac