Re: 2-session DVD: Linux shows new session's data while windows shows old sessions

2012-04-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
ight, then the effect depends on drive firmware and media type. Far from being reliable. Since exactly the same (portable) hadware and media type (DVDs from the same package) behave differently on different OSs, there is at least a case when OS makes the difference. Hope all these experiments being i

2-session DVD: Linux shows new session's data while windows shows old sessions

2012-04-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Using xorriso to burn DVD the second time (without -multi, a.k.a. there is no 3rd session). The latest session's image is created using genisoimage -C (but not using -M, a.k.a. the old and new content are not related). The burnt DVD has such special characteristic: with Linux (gnome), n

Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu maintains CDRBQ
uses the tools offered by all these genisoimage, cdrecord and xorriso stuff. They are best told by stories. I can start contributing one of my own story and hope to get some others from you. Read on: On 05/07/2011 11:36 AM, Zhang Weiwu maintains CDRBQ wrote: I can think of one answer, but ther

what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

2011-05-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu maintains CDRBQ
n they can recover from previous sessions. Photographers don't keep the deleted photos, customer do, thus rule out copyright and privacy concern. Do this scenario happen in your country? Best regards Zhang Weiwu -- CDRBQ - desktop application for optical disc authoring / reco

Re: xorriso -close off doesn't work?

2011-02-28 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 02/22/2011 03:10 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i sent this reply yesterday ongly to Zhang Weiwu by mistake. Thanks for the explanation. Now I see the -close off do have effect although not shown in dvd+rw-media the obvious way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with

xorriso -close off doesn't work?

2011-02-21 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
having DVD+RW in the drive, do: $ xorriso -dev /dev/sr0 -blank as_needed -close off -as mkisofs -exclude-list .exclude.lst . [snip] xorriso : UPDATE : 97.43% done, estimate finish Mon Feb 21 21:08:56 2011 xorriso : UPDATE : 97.85% done, estimate finish Mon Feb 21 21:08:56 2011 xorriso : UPDAT

Re: GNU xorriso 1.0.0 released

2011-01-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
On 01/17/2011 08:52 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: be invited to try the release 1.0.0 of GNU xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available on GNU FTP mirrors as xorriso/xorriso-1.0.0.tar.gz Thank you for your invitation and congratulations of the release of 1st release editio

Re: [OT] DVD read maximum at 3.5x, is this normal?

2010-11-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
于 2010年11月15日 23:49, Joerg Schilling 写道: The numbers lead to a missconfigured kernel that does not support DMA. Thanks. You are right, I discovered this in kernel dmesg: [1.760318] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10A, JL02, max UDMA/33 [1.760342] ata2.00: WARNING: ATAPI DMA di

[OT] DVD read maximum at 3.5x, is this normal?

2010-11-15 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I am a hardware newbie. I am actually pretty surprised my IDE-wired DVD writer can only reach avarage of 4MBytes/s when I try to make iso file out of my DVDs by using 'dd' (tried various block sizes and settled down with 20480bytes which seems to be fastest for me). And, it takes 100% s

Re: First case, check if wodim reliably spoils the optical media

2010-11-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
On 11/12/2010 06:24 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: But first we have to see a successful run with RESERVE TRACK. It is unlikely that the successful cdrskin run used that command. I am not sure about the successful growisofs run. So the proposed experiment is essential for deciding this question: Is th

Re: Second case, check if cdrskin also has the problem (result: no)

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/11/2010 10:29 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I meant the DVD written by cdrskin. Oh that one. Sorry I didn't notice you were replying the 'second case' (the case of cdrskin) (Driver was a different one but the disco is definitely the cdrskin'ed disk.) dvdyulia...@andalusia:~$ dvd+rw-medi

Re: Second case, check if cdrskin also has the problem (result: no)

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/11/2010 10:29 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: It appears that the old DVD took one valid session (by growisofs ?) and only afterwards fell victim to wodim. You are perhaps right but I cannot remember the old test case in October and the disco was dumped. But since I can reproduce the problem

Re: Second case, check if cdrskin also has the problem (result: no)

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/11/2010 08:20 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: wodim option -V would bring more insight into the SCSI command sequence that preceeds the failed command. (If you got a blank 20 cent media left.) I got plenty to spoil if you are interested in looking at it. Do you need? Next day I burn another whe

Second case, check if cdrskin also has the problem (result: no)

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/23/2010 03:02 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > We would first try whether it brings better results (which i rather > doubt) and could then study the SCSI commands in detail (by option -V) > if it fails. Now, following instruction from Thomas on 10/30/2010 02:24 AM, I have both tools ready: al

Re: how to check size before burning with growisofs

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/11/2010 12:49 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > There is a mkisofs option -print-size which allows you to get > the size without producing the full image stream. Thanks. Without -print-size, can the image producing stream benefits the following burning process by loading needed files into memory c

First case, check if wodim reliably spoils the optical media

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I am no more technical than an average user thus going to be verbose. Mind: I am going to change subject line as when see fit, I hope your email client can keep the threads. First try to reproduce this issue with a different DVD+R DL to exclude optical media problems. dvd+almust...@orphalese:~$

a case wodim spoils DVD+R DL, perhaps because with -multi

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
Since it's be a while I'll post the story again. On 10/22/2010 04:57 PM, I reported a case in a previous discussion thread wodim spoils a DVD+R DL, perhaps because with -multi. On 10/23/2010 03:02 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If you want to go on with investigating the problem together with me, >

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-11-10 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/30/2010 02:09 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Well, i am curious whether wodim -multi reliably spoils DVD+R DL. > (If so: Is -multi the trigger ? Does it work without that option ?) Just to let you know, I lost my 4-6 firewire cable somewhere in my home office, that's why I cannot follow up the

Re: how to check size before burning with growisofs

2010-11-10 Thread Zhang Weiwu, Beijing
On 11/10/2010 09:28 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Is there a way to tell how much would be appended when I burn a multi-session disk with growisfs? Okay I found a way myself. 1) do a dry run and write down the first line in the output, should be like this: Executing 'genisoima

Re: how to check size before burning with growisofs

2010-11-10 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/10/2010 09:28 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Is there a way to tell how much would be appended when I burn a multi-session disk with growisfs? Okay I found a way myself. 1) do a dry run and write down the first line in the output, should be like this: Executing 'genisoima

how to check size before burning with growisofs

2010-11-10 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Is there a way to tell how much would be appended when I burn a multi-session disk with growisfs? I could use -dry-run but it doesn't report the size before writing. I could not use grace time because growisofs doesn't have this parameter. I could use 'du -sh' but that counts in the fil

Re: OT: about cheap DVD+R DLs

2010-11-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/01/2010 07:56 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Your milage may vary: > http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia/memorex-dvd-r-ritek-s04-8/4640 > http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia?dvdmediadvdridsearch=RITEK...D01%20 > thank you very much for pointing out such a source of quality discos. I never knew

Re: OT: about cheap DVD+R DLs

2010-11-01 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 11/01/2010 04:44 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The troublesome DVD+R DL was a Ritek (whatever is written on its label): > > > dvd+rw-mediainfo > > Media ID: RITEK/S04 That's funny! The original post refer to a supposedly high quality DVD+R DL from TDK, at 2USD per disco, one of the

OT: about cheap DVD+R DLs

2010-10-31 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/30/2010 02:09 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > That's suspiciously cheap. > Life would be boring without such adventures. :)) I drop by local consumer electronic market and found this ANV 2USD-per-10-pack DVD+R DL is the only DVD DL product available, so much to the extent that some retailers ar

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-29 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/22/2010 05:26 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > wodim does not support DVDs correctly in general and it does not support Dual > layer at all. > Since you happen to be on this mailing list: I checked wikipedia with the hope to get some information about the advantage of star as file form

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-29 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/23/2010 03:05 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If you want to give xorriso or cdrskin a try then first post the outcome > of their track catalog commands > xorriso -outdev /dev/sr2 -toc almust...@orphalese:~$ xorriso -outdev /dev/sr2 -toc xorriso 0.5.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libbur

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
--On \u661f\u671f\u516d, \u5341\u6708 23, 2010 09\u65f636\u520607\u79d2 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: I had tried growisofs first, before using wodim, and end up with an erorr message This is what I tried and the error message I got, before I try wodim instead, as descrbied in the original

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
--On 星期六, 十月 23, 2010 09时36分07秒 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: I had tried growisofs first, before using wodim, and end up with an erorr message This is what I tried and the error message I got, before I try wodim instead, as descrbied in the original post. yulia...@andalusia:/tmp

Re: growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 10/23/2010 03:05 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> 1st session: burnt successfully. > How many bytes is it supposed to contain ? > > almust...@orphalese:~$ ls -l /var/tmp/DVD+R/1st_session.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1663696896 2010-10-19 10:23 /var/tmp/DVD+R/1st_session.iso > What happens

growisofs fail to burn second session: why and how to solve?

2010-10-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
1st session: burnt successfully. newly purchased DVD+R DL (from TDK) burnt in the newly purchased LG Portable Super Multi GP08NU20 by first generating iso image and then wodim -multi at speed 2x. Result: wodim successfully finish without complaining. But later, to mount the D

Re: growisoimage burnt a CD that cannot be mounted unless specify iso9660 as filesystem

2010-10-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年10月14日 15:44, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So again, growisofs did it right. I post not without a sense criticize growisoimage did something wrong, rather instead is knowledge of how to get such thing right next time :) If growisofs did it right, something must have done it wrong, because the

growisoimage burnt a CD that cannot be mounted unless specify iso9660 as filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
This problem is simple: I burn a new DVD session using dvd+rw-tools 7.1-6 (kernel 2.6.23), and output seems to show it is successful. Then I offload it from the drive, insert again, try to mount it, and failed. A few trial shows only if I mount by specifying iso9660 as file-system explicitly, can t

Re: growisoimage burnt a CD that cannot be mounted unless specify iso9660 as filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年10月14日 12:34, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > A few trial shows only if I mount by specifying iso9660 as file-system > explicitly, can the mount be successful, and correctly mounted to the > last session. I guess the reason might be, that the previous session of the DVD might have been bu

Re: how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-04 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Thomas Schmitt 写道: >> # xorriso -osirrox on \ >>-mount /dev/sr0 session 2 /mnt >> mount -t iso9660 -o nodev,noexec,nosuid,ro,sbsector=992400 '/dev/sr2' >> '/mnt' >> > > Should have been "mount ... '/dev/sr0' ..." > (I tested the command with DVD-RW at sr2 and > copied the outcom

Re: how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2010-01-03日的 20:11 +0100,Thomas Schmitt写道: > Hi, > > it comes to me that 1256091 is not a probable > exact start address. It should at least be > divisible by 16. > Well, check what is written in the first > sessions. Hopefully this will yield a better > number than 28. 0x17 = 23 would be nice.

Re: how to rescue this backup data (could not get original value for mkisofs -C)

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2010-01-03日的 17:02 +0100,Thomas Schmitt写道: > If so, then you have the task to guess the offset > value TheOffset that was used with > > genisoimage -C c1,TheOffset snip... > This would be easy if you had the DVD from sr0. > > If not, then lets have a look into ECMA-119, > 8.4 Primary Volume

Re: how to rescue this backup data (now I verified the iso image is an iso image)

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2010-01-03日的 17:02 +0100,Thomas Schmitt写道: > If this is an ISO 9660 image then > > $ dd if=backup.iso bs=2048 skip=16 count=1 | \ > od -c | less > > should show this output > > 000 001 C D 0 0 1 ... > ... ar...@jamaica:/tmp> dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr1 | grep

Re: how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2010-01-03日的 16:05 +0100,Joerg Schilling写道: > I recommend you to start with installing recent original software from > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > and then to run "isoinfo -i devname -d" in order to check thether the > medium contains a ISO-9660 filesystem at all. I forgot t

Re: how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2010-01-03日的 15:19 +0100,Joerg Schilling写道: > 1) > wodim does not support to write DVDs (in special DVD+). This is bad in special > as it claims that it includes DVD support. > > 2) > If you have "wodim" on your system, there is a big chance that you used > "genisoimage" (part of the fork) inst

how to rescue this backup data

2010-01-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. We have a website backup that has to be recovered thanks to webserver hard disk crash. However the person who burned the backup seems to have done it wrong. This is what we investigated what most likely have happened: a. he have a DVD+R that has a session on it. b. he created a backup i

Re: growisofs' -M option do not remove old files?

2007-01-31 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-02-01四的 10:29 +0800,Zhang Weiwu写道: > Maybe I am stupid (had several stupid ones before) but I think there is > a difference between Windows' Nero Burning Rom's "append from previous > session" (rough translation) and mkisofs's -M option: > > With

growisofs' -M option do not remove old files?

2007-01-31 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Maybe I am stupid (had several stupid ones before) but I think there is a difference between Windows' Nero Burning Rom's "append from previous session" (rough translation) and mkisofs's -M option: With Nero Burning Rom => if a file was on DVD old session and no longer on my harddisk, the new sessi

create new session but NOT import old session: is it possible for DVD-R

2007-01-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. For a CDR I can do it this way to create a new session without importing old session: $ mkisofs -C xxx,xxx root-folder/ | cdrecord -multi -data dev=/dev/cdr - The trick is to create iso image using -C but NOT use -M. Now with growisofs this seems impossible because in order to create a ne

Re: how to obtain multisession info for DVD?

2007-01-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-24三的 14:00 +0100,Joerg Schilling写道: > Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello. I used to use 'cdrdao disk-info' to obtain a list of multisession > > information for a CDR, like whether if it is appendable, how much space > > left on it

how to obtain multisession info for DVD?

2007-01-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I used to use 'cdrdao disk-info' to obtain a list of multisession information for a CDR, like whether if it is appendable, how much space left on it etc. Now doing $ cdrdao disk-info /dev/dvd seems to produce wrong information (e.g. sataing total capacity is some 300MB). So what do you guy