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

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick Ohly
/mailing.comp.cdwrite/browse_frm/thread/ab41402747ff62af/568f34f142e706bd?tvc=1q=%22reading+out+data+cds%22hl=en#568f34f142e706bd Later (Feb 15 2003) Joerg changed mkisofs so that it always adds 150 blocks. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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 clarifies: 6.33.3.19 Post-gap If a Data

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

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
). -- 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
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: 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 compared to your method is that each day

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
are the same. Only the actual writing is different. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/

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

2006-01-21 Thread Patrick Ohly
() 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 Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-07-02 Thread Patrick Ohly
, 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/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD

Re: growisofs should have a method for padding

2005-05-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
(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 PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http

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

2005-02-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
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 PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: problems with growisoft

2004-11-04 Thread Patrick Ohly
(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 unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2004-03-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
+ #define OPTION_RELOC_ROOT 2042 + #define OPTION_RELOC_OLD_ROOT 2043 + Sorry, I forgot that 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

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, I did try to have the options in alphabetical order

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 still fine. Please try to create less work

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 still fine. Please try to create less work

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 the endless loop. It has been fixed in cdrtrools

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 function prototype 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 function prototype caused

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

2004-02-19 Thread Patrick Ohly
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mkisofs hangs with -graft-points + -M

2004-01-06 Thread Patrick Ohly
where parse_xa() is also called, but then followed by a while loop that tests against 3. It looks like a sane value because it is large enough to ensure that at least two flag bytes and the length in pnt[2] are valid. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related

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
? 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 nowadays. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly

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 -- [EMAIL

extension of mkisofs for incremental backups

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Ohly
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? -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http

Re: Aborting cdrecord

2002-04-25 Thread Patrick Ohly
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: mkisofs: post-gap in ISO data (aka read-ahead bug)

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick . Ohly
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 home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cdrtools-1.11a04 ready

2001-06-19 Thread Patrick . Ohly
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 -- [EMAIL

Re: cdrtools-1.10a17 ready

2001-03-31 Thread Patrick . Ohly
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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~Ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home

Re: cdrtools-1.9a04 ready

2000-07-04 Thread Patrick Ohly
ial interfaces? Both open_scsi() and scsi_open() are defined in scsitransp.h without comments. Again, I think this shows the need for more documentation. I'll use open_scsi() with a NULL scsidev to do a bus scan. How can I build a scsidev string to open another SCSI pointer to access just one drive in a por