Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see the latest Plextor drives claim 18x DVD performance. I thought > 16x was the physical limit of the disks. 18x is the physical limit > Does Solaris/cdrecord support SATA DVD writers? SATA is nothing that cdrecord needs to support explicitely. Sola

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-13 Thread Ian Collins
Al Hopper wrote: >On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rich Teer wrote: > > > >>Hi all, >> >>This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a >>crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The >> >> >. snip .. > >cdrecord and a Plextor drive is an *unbeatable* combination.

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rich Teer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a >> crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The > . snip .. > > cdrecord and a Plextor drive is an *unbeatable* combination. NB: the > Plextor slot lo

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-13 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a > crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The . snip .. cdrecord and a Plextor drive is an *unbeatable* combination. NB: the Plextor slot loader fits in an

Re: Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Original-Message > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:41:19 -0400 (EDT) > From: Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs > >> >>

Re: Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
Original-Message Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:41:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs > > >> "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
Original-Message Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:16:55 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs > "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I also reset the drive every time in advance: >> > # dvdrecord -v -V dev=2,0,0 -reset >> >> Are you sure that this works? > > Yes, I'm quite sure. > It looks / behaves like that. > That is an interesting option that I have never used. I am af

Re: Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
> > "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > message and then exit by itself). Because I don't wanted to wait for the > timeout and for cdrecord to quit by itself every time, I usually chose to > reboot via another xterm and "init 6". Aehmm, no chance of killing cdrecord by means of "k

Re: Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
> "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also reset the drive every time in advance: > > # dvdrecord -v -V dev=2,0,0 -reset > > Are you sure that this works? Yes, I'm quite sure. It looks / behaves like that. > > I believe that resetting the drive does only work for 50/68 pin > p

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # more /usr/bin/cdrecord > > > > #ident "@(#)cdrecord 1.1 06/04/06 SMI" > > # > > # > > pfexec "`dirname $0`/`basename $0`.bin" $* > > This looks OK, but the stuff in /etc/security seems to be wrong. found the first bug: You need to rep

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are you sure that cdrecord has been installed correctly? > > > > > > > Should be, it's a build41 install. I did the install with Live Upgrade, > maybe the package wasn't upgraded correctly? What you need is e.g.: Basic Solaris User:solaris:cmd:::/usr/

Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also reset the drive every time in advance: > # dvdrecord -v -V dev=2,0,0 -reset Are you sure that this works? I believe that resetting the drive does only work for 50/68 pin parallel SCSI. BTW: you use an old cdrecord version, try to compile a re

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
Joerg Schilling wrote: >Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Oops: >># cdrecord -scanbus >>Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a06 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 >>J�rg Schilling >>Warning: Using USCSI interface. >>/usr/bin/cdrecord.bin: No such file or directory. Cannot open >>'/de

Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only experienced problems so far on the U20 with SXCR snv41 (destroys every > second DVD-R despite BURN-Free enabled), plus on any sb1k/sb2k via ieee1394a > (cannot read block x y z). > But those problems seem to be a limitation of cooperation betw

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops: > # cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a06 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 > J�rg Schilling > Warning: Using USCSI interface. > /usr/bin/cdrecord.bin: No such file or directory. Cannot open > '/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2'. Cannot open SC

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a > crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The > Ultra 20 is using the DVD-RW drive that Sun shipped with it, > and I'm using the latest BIOS and b42a of Nevada. The

Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
> Rich Teer wrote: > > This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a > > crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The > > Ultra 20 is using the DVD-RW drive that Sun shipped with it, > > and I'm using the latest BIOS and b42a of Nevada. The media > > I'm trying t

Re: Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Bochnig
> > Hi all, > > Hey man. Hey men. > > > So the question is: is this a known problem, and are there any > > workarounds? I'm using cdrw (no offense to Joerg, but I find > > "cdrw -i foo.iso" much easier to type than cdrecord with a long > > list of options), > > get over it ! > > get cdrecor

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Eric Lowe
Rich Teer wrote: This is a weird one: burning CDs and DVDs in my Ultra 20 is a crapshoot. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The Ultra 20 is using the DVD-RW drive that Sun shipped with it, and I'm using the latest BIOS and b42a of Nevada. The media I'm trying to burn is brand new M

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Ian Collins
Dennis Clarke wrote: >>So the question is: is this a known problem, and are there any >>workarounds? I'm using cdrw (no offense to Joerg, but I find >>"cdrw -i foo.iso" much easier to type than cdrecord with a long >>list of options), >> >> > >get over it ! > >get cdrecord and you will find t

Re: [osol-discuss] Ultra 20 CD/DVD burning probs

2006-07-12 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi all, Hey man. > So the question is: is this a known problem, and are there any > workarounds? I'm using cdrw (no offense to Joerg, but I find > "cdrw -i foo.iso" much easier to type than cdrecord with a long > list of options), get over it ! get cdrecord and you will find that it "just w