Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:13:46PM +, James wrote I need to learn how to use any simple cdrecording commands (syntax challeged user here) first. Then I can worry about all sorts of fancy file types/formats. I'd be better off downloading a know file to write to the device (ascii text?) or

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README Success, at least for what you were asking it to do, and that is to write a file named README onto a disk. Never mind that the disk doesn't have a filesystem and the README file

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover a simple but profound problem. Sorry, James, that was my fault. I had jumped in mid-stream and hadn't realized it was an ongoing thread... Trust me there was no sarcasm intended. As far as the man page for cdrecord, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:50:05 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, pretty lame, but that's why I missed the cdrecord man page. I did not think there was one... i The cdrecord man page is part of - app-cdr/cdrtools Perhaps it needs to be re-emerged? Any ideas how to get ALL of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread James Hiscock
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread James
James Hiscock boxroot at gmail.com writes: Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation :

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread James
Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JF6rg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JF6rg Schilling on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian Decker NOTE: this version

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-20 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: so I tried: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v *.wav cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '18133194218-14129220407-05-18-2005-11-42-.wav'. OK, two things occuring to me (though I can't say I know anything about this):

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
James wrote: So I changed the file to 'close.txt' and ran cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data close.txt Last time I checked, the ATAPI:0,0,0 device syntax requires root privileges. You can use /dev/hdx instead so that the kernel can figure out the permissions. Supported

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite possible (statistically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used cdrecord, so it's quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Holly Bostick wrote: James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Possibly your .wav file is in fact 'inappropriately encoded'? Does it burn if you use -data instead of -audio? Hello Holly, If you read the threads, I start out trying to k3b working. I have not used

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw reveals: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
cdr and cdrw? On 7/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
have you tried using k3bsetup? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:36:44 + (UTC) James wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff...

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: cdr and cdrw? We'll 'lshw' shows: product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd so I'd assume cd-rw means read write: Also the Toshiba web page:

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: have you tried using k3bsetup? Ah, this may be the problem. IN the k3b gui, I went under settings, but did not see anything critical. The only documents I have found are in /usr/share/doc/k3b-0.11.24. Running k3bsetup as root fired up the gui. All of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org There is some weird crap with cdrecord and various kernel versions.

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org Well looking at that I

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:54:50 + (UTC) James wrote: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: Well looking at that I used: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: OK time to play spot the obvious error - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 try the command line again with the correct device OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including some saved .wav files from my vonage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: OK time to play spot the obvious error - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 try the command line again with the correct device OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including some