Re: Write problems with unbranded DVD[+-]RW drive...

2003-11-20 Thread Rob Bogus
MacArthur, Ian (UK) wrote: Greetings all, At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics shop, it was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it seems like a bargain... Claims to support + and - RW writing. (The retail box is marked PIKA ONE, but th

Re: Write problems with unbranded DVD[+-]RW drive...

2003-11-20 Thread Rob Bogus
MacArthur, Ian (UK) wrote: Greetings all, At the weekend I got an unbranded DVD writer - I was in a local electronics shop, it was on offer very cheap. I have *a lot* of data to archive, and it seems like a bargain... Claims to support + and - RW writing. (The retail box is marked PIKA ONE, but

Re: problems with xcdroast + ide-scsi

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
If you like to buy a single format writer obarrot wrote: Hi, I can't use my CD-ATAPI cdrom with xcdroast + the ide-scsi.o module I had to disable DMA on this CD drive as any operation on the device freezed totally the machine! now I can mount & acccess this /dev/sg1 device ok but readcd does det

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If you like to buy a single format writer, buy DVD-, it is standard has less readibility problems As you keep on propagating this nonsense (one might also call it FUD), for the record: DVD+ isn't any less standard than DVD-. Anyone can call themselves the "standard". De

Re: problems with xcdroast + ide-scsi

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
If you like to buy a single format writer obarrot wrote: Hi, I can't use my CD-ATAPI cdrom with xcdroast + the ide-scsi.o module I had to disable DMA on this CD drive as any operation on the device freezed totally the machine! now I can mount & acccess this /dev/sg1 device ok but readcd does

Re: DVD+/-R writers

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If you like to buy a single format writer, buy DVD-, it is standard has less readibility problems As you keep on propagating this nonsense (one might also call it FUD), for the record: DVD+ isn't any less standard than DVD-. Anyone can call themselves the "standard". D

Re: Incorrect Mail set up please correct!

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:33:40PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I *had* asked not to be cc'ed for list postings, if you ignore that, you'll have to put up with the bounce. If that's so important to you, then you should configure your mail software to add the Mail-Follo

Re: DVDs created with too large files

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size, as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB. Careful - the comment was about m

Re: Incorrect Mail set up please correct!

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:33:40PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I *had* asked not to be cc'ed for list postings, if you ignore that, you'll have to put up with the bounce. If that's so important to you, then you should configure your mail software to add the Mail-Foll

Re: DVDs created with too large files

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size, as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB. Careful - the comment was about m

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 25 15:44:25 2003 What do you expect when you use low quality media on a low quality drive? I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been havin

Re: [Cdrecord-developers] Re: Cdrecord bug in DAO mode (version 2.01a19)

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 25 15:44:25 2003 What do you expect when you use low quality media on a low quality drive? I don't think that's the whole story, honestly. I have been

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

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 25 15:44:25 2003 Track 07: Total bytes read/written: 55486032/55486032 (23591 sectors). Starting new track at sector: 162596 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 02 8E

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

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 25 15:44:25 2003 Track 07: Total bytes read/written: 55486032/55486032 (23591 sectors). Starting new track at sector: 162596 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 02 8E

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

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 24 05:28:44 2003 Each time I try to burn an Audio CD in DAO mode using Cdrecord and my QSI Combo CD-writer (I tried speed=4,8,12,16) I receive an error as the one in the attached file and the CD writing process fails with the waste of a bla

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

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 24 05:28:44 2003 Each time I try to burn an Audio CD in DAO mode using Cdrecord and my QSI Combo CD-writer (I tried speed=4,8,12,16) I receive an error as the one in the attached file and the CD writing process fails with the waste of a b

Re: Extracting file system from an iso image

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: Once I have read an ISO9660 image with or without Joliet/Rockridge extns, is there a way to simply extract files, directory sturcture from it (analogous to tar extraction), without actually mounting the iso image? Is there a utility to do this? Let me ask the silly question

Re: Extracting file system from an iso image

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: Once I have read an ISO9660 image with or without Joliet/Rockridge extns, is there a way to simply extract files, directory sturcture from it (analogous to tar extraction), without actually mounting the iso image? Is there a utility to do this? Let me ask the silly questio

How to get burner speed info

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there some way to get the speed capabilities of a drive? I've tried options like -atip, -prcap, and -checkdrive, and there doesn't seem to be a list of supported speeds available for human use. Since various media will result in a burn at some small number of speeds ignoring the speed=NN opt

How to get burner speed info

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Bogus
Is there some way to get the speed capabilities of a drive? I've tried options like -atip, -prcap, and -checkdrive, and there doesn't seem to be a list of supported speeds available for human use. Since various media will result in a burn at some small number of speeds ignoring the speed=NN opt

Re: Using readcd to read 3rd party discs

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: I guess this is a novice level question. I am planning to use readcd to read from a data CD/DVD. I understand that for discs written with "-dao" flag, readcd will read exact number of sectors, whereas for those written w/o "-dao" flag, readcd tries to read 2 sectors more than

Re: Bad media?

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 20:28, Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello, a DVD burn ended like this: Track 01: 4387 of 4449 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 100%] 2.0x. See below. Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total di

Re: Using readcd to read 3rd party discs

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Ashish Rangole wrote: I guess this is a novice level question. I am planning to use readcd to read from a data CD/DVD. I understand that for discs written with "-dao" flag, readcd will read exact number of sectors, whereas for those written w/o "-dao" flag, readcd tries to read 2 sectors more th

Re: Bad media?

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 20:28, Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello, a DVD burn ended like this: Track 01: 4387 of 4449 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 100%] 2.0x. See below. Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total di

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-08 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 05:09, Rob Bogus wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-08 Thread Rob Bogus
Lourens Veen wrote: On Wed 8 October 2003 05:09, Rob Bogus wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of

Re: Script problem with growisofs

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Klaas-Henning Mueller wrote: There's a script-problem with growisofs which makes it nearly impossible to use for automated backup purposes: if you invoke growisofs at commandline or from an script directly with "-Z" option, all ist fine, it works great. But if you invoke it from "cron" directly

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660 filesystem from a cd or dvd, I often get I/O errors within the last blocks of the filesystem. Using cat /dev

Re: Script problem with growisofs

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Klaas-Henning Mueller wrote: There's a script-problem with growisofs which makes it nearly impossible to use for automated backup purposes: if you invoke growisofs at commandline or from an script directly with "-Z" option, all ist fine, it works great. But if you invoke it from "cron" directly

Re: linux kernel error reading end of cd/dvd

2003-10-07 Thread Rob Bogus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Esteemed gurus, if anyone is able to shed some more light on this kernel problem I'd appreciate it. It's been going on for years. When reading the whole of an iso9660 filesystem from a cd or dvd, I often get I/O errors within the last blocks of the filesystem. Using cat /d

Re: Liteon DVD+R/W

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw an advertisement for a really cheap Lite-On DVD+R/W/CD-R/W drive. Has anybody gotten such a drive to work? http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/english-product.htm http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/new_p_e/english--p-drw4412.htm The interesting product seems

Re: Compile against 2.6-test5

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I cant seem to compile cdrecord against 2.60-test5! is this a known issue? (in the code below i'm in the libscg dir, that seems to be the root of all the other errors, such as -lscg not found).

Re: Liteon DVD+R/W

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw an advertisement for a really cheap Lite-On DVD+R/W/CD-R/W drive. Has anybody gotten such a drive to work? http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/english-product.htm http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/new_p_e/english--p-drw4412.htm The interesting product seem

Re: Compile against 2.6-test5

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I cant seem to compile cdrecord against 2.60-test5! is this a known issue? (in the code below i'm in the libscg dir, that seems to be the root of all the other errors, such as -lscg not found).

Re: Plextor PX-708A & growisofs works great!

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Please! Could you submit output from 'dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd verbose' with DVD+RW media in unit? As already mentioned on the list the question I seek answer for is in what extent does the unit in question support Mt.Rainier specification. In order to spare the subscribers so

Re: Plextor PX-708A & growisofs works great!

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Please! Could you submit output from 'dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd verbose' with DVD+RW media in unit? As already mentioned on the list the question I seek answer for is in what extent does the unit in question support Mt.Rainier specification. In order to spare the subscribers s

Re: dump on CD (Linux only)

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, because the Linux kernel doesn't support multi-session and restore reads the raw device. What? Linux has supported multisession since 2.3.4! Now as to what restore does, can't say. I want my backups in iso9660 format in most cases, so I use mkshadow to c

Re: dump on CD (Linux only)

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, because the Linux kernel doesn't support multi-session and restore reads the raw device. What? Linux has supported multisession since 2.3.4! Now as to what restore does, can't say. I want my backups in iso9660 format in most cases, so I use mkshadow to

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:22:37 -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom&quo

Re: dvd multi-session

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Even if you manage to put one tar per session, how would you access the second tar? If you want to "tar-format" DVD media, multi-sessioning is not an option, isofs is the *only* working option for multi-sessioning. Sure wish mkisofs would take as input tar and/or cpio, or ju

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:22:37 -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom&quo

Re: dvd multi-session

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: Even if you manage to put one tar per session, how would you access the second tar? If you want to "tar-format" DVD media, multi-sessioning is not an option, isofs is the *only* working option for multi-sessioning. Sure wish mkisofs would take as input tar and/or cpio, or j

Re: CDR gone bad....is there a fsck.iso9660?

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
The trick Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Not solving your current problems, but there are reportedly severe differences in longevity depending on the dye (and thus the brand of CD-R blanks). I saw a recommendation for Kodak, so I record backups onto Kodak and also at least one other

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom" and the added option "-clone" (sample output appended below). The files in the CDR, however, are

Re: CDR gone bad....is there a fsck.iso9660?

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
The trick Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Not solving your current problems, but there are reportedly severe differences in longevity depending on the dye (and thus the brand of CD-R blanks). I saw a recommendation for Kodak, so I record backups onto Kodak and also at least one other

Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

2003-09-13 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs. I use both the simple command "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom" and the added option "-clone" (sample output appended below). The files in the CDR, however, are

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

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Bogus
Monty wrote: Hi folks, I've found a peculiar behavior in the 2.4.x series (using recent Linux SG 3.1.2x) that I have to fix one way or another. I've tried 2.4.20 as shipped by Debian and my hand-built 2.4.21. In short, I've put together an audio editing workstation to replace the aging Snotfish.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As someone who does not use Linux, I would say it is not the user's fault. When that bit is set, it means the first extent is Macintosh resource fork data. That bit was put into t

Re: dvd+rw-tools problems

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
Dan wrote: Hi Andy, thanks for the response The hue's changed, the disc looks pretty much full except for a small rim around the outside of the disc. Also dvd+r-tools won't let me burn over it again so that seems to notice that it's already been recorded on. I've tried the burned dvd's in my la

Re: Overburn protection

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...only if you need to have your files read on a Linux system. For other situations, writing large files might be quite reasonable and you might need to switch to a tool that will write such files. If Linux tools are aimed only at readers that are unable to honor the full

Re: [SOLVED] Re: strangeness when writing iso9660/hfs hybrid disks

2003-06-28 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone who does not use Linux, I would say it is not the user's fault. When that bit is set, it means the first extent is Macintosh resource fork data. That bit was put into the standard specifically for that purpose. Linux should make it _extremely_ difficult to ha

Re: problems burning DVD-Rs

2003-06-22 Thread Rob Bogus
Mike Devlin wrote: Hi, I am trying to burn a DVD-R using a TDK IndiDVD 440N on a Suse Linux 8.2 system. I can burn DVD+R's fine, but when I try to burn a DVD-R using cdrecord-ProDVD I get this error: fez:/archive # ./cdrecord-ProDVD -dao dev=1,0,0 -v filename.iso Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a12

Re: cdrecord copyed over recent nero copying

2003-06-18 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] samir aziz wrote: This command below destroyed another windows copy WHY />./cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -v -speed=4 cdimage.raw Cdrecord 1.11a03 (i386-pc-solaris2.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jِrg Schillin= g TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,1,0' scsibus: 1 tar

Re: Dvdrecord problem

2003-06-18 Thread Rob Bogus
'Warly' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Marc Gregoire wrote: Is there a difference between your patch and cdrecord-prodvd concerning features? Do you consider "open source" a feature? ;-) Otherwise they are reasonable similar. I don't see any advantage of CD+R for my use, so I'm taking Joerg's suggestion

Re: Burning speed

2003-06-04 Thread Rob Bogus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have a Teac CD-W552E, which claims to be 52x writer. I have FUJIFILM 700MB media, that claims to be 1-52x multispeed capable. However, cdrecord only records at 16x speed. Why is that? Can I do anything about it? Also, how can I use 2 ATAPI writers in one

Re: cdrecord 2.0 & kernel 2.5.x

2003-04-01 Thread Rob Bogus
On Saturday 11 January 2003 15:28, Casey Scott wrote: > I am using kernel 2.5.56 currently, and cdrecord is behaving strangely. For > example, when blanking a disk, the system because totally unresponsive > until the blanking is complete. Also, when actually burning a disk, the > system completely

Re: ide-scsi problem: aborting command due to timeout

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Sunday 08 September 2002 02:16, Sean Staats wrote: > Hello, everybody. > I'm trying to get ide-scsi to work on my CDRW. Whether I use ide-scsi > as a module and allow modprobe to do the loading, or have ide-scsi, sg, > sr_mod and mod_scsi compiled into the kernel, the result is the following: >

Re: Interesting Fact

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Saturday 25 January 2003 03:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I had a new experience - a burner that works perfectly in linux and > freebsd with cdrecord, but fails miserably with Windows 2000. A note on > the manufacturer's web page says that they are waiting for a fix from > microsoft. >

Re: howto burn a (data)dvd

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:02, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From: Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >i agree with you, i really do wish joerg would just change the license > >to forbid use on GPL operating systems... it is quite an excellent idea! > > And this makes it perfetly obvious: Most peo

Re: good dvd burner for linux and cdrecord

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Monday 17 March 2003 16:24, christopher j bottaro wrote: > i'm in the market for a dvd burner. what do yall recommend that works well > in linux with dvdrecord? i want one that can burn cd's and dvd's (dvd+r/rw > and dvd-r/rw) and is fast. also, do yall think it might be a good idea to > wai

Re: External USB CD writer

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Monday 06 January 2003 10:06, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From: Mukta Telang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Hi, > >I want to know which External USB CD writers are compatible with Redhat7.2 > >linux and how to configure one.. > >Thanks in advance, > >Mukta > > USB on Linux is a pure disaster :-( > > Try

Re: DVD+RW/+R for Linux update

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Bogus
On Monday 04 November 2002 13:49, Frank Hage wrote: > On 2002.11.04, Joerg Schilling wrote: > : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media. > > One advantage I find is the ability to burn directly from NFS mounted > partitions. It's slow but it works well. I've got gobs a

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