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

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:11 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Patrick Ohly: > > Writing 150 empty blocks after the last block with user data is required > > by the data CD standard - they are called "post-gap". > > Yep. But as the publicly available standard MMC-5 clar

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

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick Ohly
For more information, see my postings in this old thread here: http://groups.google.ca/group/mailing.comp.cdwrite/browse_frm/thread/ab41402747ff62af/568f34f142e706bd?tvc=1&q=%22reading+out+data+cds%22&hl=en#568f34f142e706bd Later (Feb 15 2003) Joerg changed mkisofs so that it always adds 150 blocks. -

Re: mkisofs bug? creating cdrom image for bulk files with -old-root -> enter infinite loop?

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
" or "step" to single-step). -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/

Re: a NERO user familiar with backing up data on multisession CDR, how do I do it in Linux too?

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Ohly
never writes to disc. growisofs uses mkisofs, so those options are the same. Only the actual writing is different. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/

Re: a NERO user familiar with backing up data on multisession CDR, how do I do it in Linux too?

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 13:44 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A while ago I wanted to do the same thing and to make it possible with > > mkisofs I added the --root/--old-root command line options. The only > > difference c

Re: a NERO user familiar with backing up data on multisession CDR, how do I do it in Linux too?

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Ohly
It uses growisofs to burn writable DVD, but the same method also works with cdrecord + writable CD. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/ backup Description: application/shellscript

Re: dvd+rw-tools update [6.0, DVD-R DL]

2006-01-21 Thread Patrick Ohly
that a simple wrapper to open() which adds O_DIRECT might be sufficient, but it turned out that this alone is not sufficient: the buffers used by the programs must have a certain alignment. This is not guaranteed without modifying the way how those programs allocate memory. -- Bye, Patrick Oh

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-07-02 Thread Patrick Ohly
ems relevant, but the padding is expressed > in seconds, so I'm not 100% convinced that it applies to data. It does: 1 second = 75 blocks = 2048 bytes/block * 75 blocks = 150KB -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~oh

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-05-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
g was not done properly by mkisofs (as far as I remember, it padded to a multiple of 16 blocks and even that was disabled by default), but on Feb 15 2003 padding by exactly the required 150 blocks was added (according to mkisofs' changelog). -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

mkisofs infinite loop (was: Re: problems with growisoft)

2005-02-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
no longer runs into the infinite loop and I have used it for an incremental backup which went fine. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: problems with growisoft

2004-11-04 Thread Patrick Ohly
contains that fix (or simply try it with the official mkisofs source). -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
these magic constants need to be unique. Perhaps now is a good time to change this code over to enums... just an idea, though. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page)

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
these magic constants need to be unique. Perhaps now is a good time to change this code over to enums... just an idea, though. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-02 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:04, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> The patch to the man page indserts things disordered > > >Where would you like me to insert the description of > >the new options? > > A while ago,

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-02 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:04, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> The patch to the man page indserts things disordered > > >Where would you like me to insert the description of > >the new options? > > A while ago,

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-02-29 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 19:11, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I have updated the patch again to apply cleanly against > >2.01a26pre. Patching the man page and a function prototype > >caused conflicts while the rest applied stil

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-02-29 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 19:11, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I have updated the patch again to apply cleanly against > >2.01a26pre. Patching the man page and a function prototype > >caused conflicts while the rest applied stil

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:07, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have updated the patch that adds -root and -old-root > to mkisofs. It is now based on cdrtools 2.01a16, I have updated the patch again to apply cleanly against 2.01a26pre. Patching the man page and a functi

Re: mkisofs hangs with -graft-points + -M

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 12:58, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Here's how this can be reproduced with cdrtools 2.01a23: [...] > >At this point mkisofs hangs and must be aborted. > > There was a bug in mkisofs that caused

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:07, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have updated the patch that adds -root and -old-root > to mkisofs. It is now based on cdrtools 2.01a16, I have updated the patch again to apply cleanly against 2.01a26pre. Patching the man page and a functi

Re: mkisofs hangs with -graft-points + -M

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 12:58, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Patrick Ohly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Here's how this can be reproduced with cdrtools 2.01a23: [...] > >At this point mkisofs hangs and must be aborted. > > There was a bug in mkisofs that caused

Re: how to read second track of a multisessioned dvd+r, in the burner ?

2004-02-19 Thread Patrick Ohly
o verify that by looking at the source, though. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page)

Re: how to read second track of a multisessioned dvd+r, in the burner ?

2004-02-19 Thread Patrick Ohly
o verify that by looking at the source, though. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mkisofs hangs with -graft-points + -M

2004-01-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
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mkisofs hangs with -graft-points + -M

2004-01-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
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Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-07-21 Thread Patrick Ohly
please update the copy of this patch on your growisofs page? -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) This patch adds two new command line options: -root dir Moves

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-04-12 Thread Patrick Ohly
do it), but why should I? Isn't that the task of the original porter? I have no need for cdrtools on the Amiga and I have no time for it. And no, it is not because I still earn some money by selling my own shareware CD writing software on the Amiga - the money really is insignificant now

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-03-25 Thread Patrick Ohly
- without some kind of patch gruft deleted before my latest backup is restored when copying back the latest session So I'll continue to use my modified mkisofs, but I won't argue for its inclusion in mainline mkisofs unless other users also find it useful. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
> > However, accessing older versions of a file is > > difficult: the CD filesystems must be able to select > > arbitrary session and thus the old file. At least on > > the Amiga this works, but I have doubts about Linux > > It's possible with 'mount -o session=N ...' under Linux. Ah, good to kno

extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
e rr_root The solution for both might be a more elaborate reusal of the old directory structure, where new entries overwrite the old ones. Questions: Is there a need for this patch? Joerg and James, are you willing to include it in the official release of mkisofs? What would you like to see modified

Re: Aborting cdrecord

2002-04-25 Thread Patrick Ohly
er one or more TEST_UNIT_READY can be used normally again, without relying on SCSI resets or command timeouts. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cdrecord--ProDVD test versions

2001-11-03 Thread Patrick . Ohly
any other company > name without changing the message. If you read my text correctly you will see > that I did not call "Adead" a company that actually steals my technology. I never said that. I only wanted to get the clarification that nothing like that was implied implicit

Re: Cdrecord--ProDVD test versions

2001-10-21 Thread Patrick . Ohly
ology, or that they might do that in the future? If it's the latter, what makes you think so? Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~Ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: dump on CD (Linux only)

2001-07-26 Thread Patrick . Ohly
dumps. Does it support multi-session CD-Rs? My incremental backups at home hardly ever take up more than 50-100MB, and even though CD-Rs are cheap I still hate to waste the space ;-) Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.

Re: mkisofs: post-gap in ISO data (aka read-ahead bug)

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick . Ohly
deed add at least 16 blocks. Still, the standard requires 150 blocks, whereas the alignment to a multiple of 16 isn't required as far as I know. Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~Ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD

mkisofs: post-gap in ISO data (aka read-ahead bug)

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick . Ohly
ing to be changed? Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~Ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cdrtools-1.11a04 ready

2001-06-19 Thread Patrick . Ohly
r hand, I have ignored this sentence and in practice test writes work very well even with raw writing. If you really want to be safe then a warning that the drive might ignore the -dummy option might be appropriate, but I know no drive that really ignores it. Do you? Bye, Patrick Ohly --

Re: CD-ROM backup systems?

2001-05-16 Thread Patrick . Ohly
However, the currently available version is limited to backing up one filesystem at a time (no non-root directories, not more than one at once). I have submitted a patch to Fraser that changes that, but it seems he hasn't had time to upload a new version yet, although he wanted to i

Re: cdrtools-1.10a17 ready

2001-03-31 Thread Patrick . Ohly
ome more complex cases like add ( #ifdef ADD_1_2 1, 2 #else 3, 4 #endif ) which really only work when #ifdef is evaluated before the macro. Is there really any rule in a C standard that makes the AIX and GNU C behavior noncompliant? Bye, Patrick Ohly -

Re: cdrtools-1.9a04 ready

2000-07-04 Thread Patrick Ohly
ther way > >to open a SCSI handle for just one drive? > > It looks as if you are using inofficial interfaces that are not allowed > to be used by endusers. The scsi_open() interface may be changed every > day, open_scsi() is the public interface. Then it was a typo when you