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- Subject: cdrecord 1.6.1 has been released
- Keywords: CD-R CD-RW CDRecord CDwrite SunOS Solaris Linux SGI IRIX FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD HP-UX OSF-1
-
- This is Version 1.6.1 of cdrecord
-
- Cdrecord allows you to create CD's on a CD-Recorder.
- Cdrecord runs on:
-
- SunOS 4.1.3 or later: sparc.
- Solaris 2.3 or later: sparc and x86.
- Linux: x86 sparc ppc and alpha.
- NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD: x86 sparc
- SGI IRIX: mips
- HP-UX: hppa
- AIX: rs6000
- OSF-1: alpha
-
- NEW features of cdrecord-1.6.1 (shortened):
-
- - Sector size is reset to the old value after writing a CD. This
- help to use a CD-R/CD-RW drive on Solaris that is jumpered to 512 bytes.
- - -toc behaviour corrected for drives that are jumpered to 512 byte
- sector size.
- - Better AIX support: typo's corrected, workaround for missing SHM_LOCK
- - Handle alinement problem in scsi-linux-sg.c for sparc
- - mkisofs-1.12b4 hacked with new features expected to come up
- in Eric's mkisofs-1.12b5 release.
- - Added VMS SCSI transport code from Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann
- (still in discussion for the final port)
- - Added PARAIDE SCSI transport code from Grant R. Guenther
- Compile with: make COPTX=-DUSE_PG
- - New SCSI transport code for BSD/OS (BSDi)
- Based on the implementation from Chris P. Ross" <cross@eng.us.uu.net>
- - Check /dev/sg0... before /dev/sga... on Linux
- - Added support for the enhanced Linux sg driver code
- Unfortunately, sg version 2 is still not part of the
- development kernel. If you like to use sg version 2 you
- should install the patch from:
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/SG.patch.tar.gz
- If you like to do simultaneous access to /dev/sg entries,
- you should install the sg buffer patch from Heiko in
- addition.
- - New feature of the scsi open code allows to use cdrecord
- on *BSD without the hacky symbolic link /dev/scgx
- Use dev=devicename:target,lun
- - Floating point printf() code for *BSD (4.4BSD derived libc).
- This allows printing of floats on *BSD and Apple Rhapsody.
- - New code to support reading the capacity of a blank media on a
- Philips CDD-2600
- - New simulation driver allows to check the system performance
- at any write speed.
- - Support for the Kodak PCD-600 and the Pioneer DW-S114X
- - Handle truncated .wav files correctly
- - CD Blank manufacturer list updated
- - Hacky blanking support for JVC CD-RW drives.
- JVC does not give support, I made a guess on the blank command.
- - MMC drives that do not support the read ATIP command (as the HP-7100)
- may now detect the disk manufacturer if the media is completely blank.
- - Cdrecord now compiles on Windows NT using the Cygwin32 B19 compiler.
- I did not test yet, but I expec that compilation on W95 should
- pe possible too.
- Currently not working:
- The FIFO.
- The SCSI transport code.
- I am looking for people who are willing to help me writing a ASPI32
- SCSI rtansport module.
- - Cdrecord now tries to hide the error message from the early
- returning fixating command on Mitsumi drives.
- - Give an error message on Linux if the right /dev/sg* device could
- not be opened.
- - Try to make ATAPI drives work on NetBSD-1.3
- - Give an error message on *BSD if the right device could not be opened.
- - Integrated support for the Sony 928 ATAPI drive.
- - Trying to hide error messages from the user if the drive
- does not like fixating in dummy mode.
- - FreeBSD/cam SCSI transport implementation added.
- FreeBSD/current will switch to CAM simultaneously
- with cdrecord's added CAM support.
- The implementation was mainly done by
- Kenneth D. Merry <ken@kdm.org>
- - New dev= syntax (dev=devicename:@ or dev=devicename:@,lun)
- to overcome the need for creating a /dev/scgx symlink on
- non CAM *BSD systems.
- - Cdrecord has been ported to Digital Unix (OSF1)
- - Cdrecord now can really wait for the completion of the
- fixating command on Mitsumi drives.
- - RULES/mk*.id changed back 'tr' strings to ',---'
- until AIX problem have been cleared.
- - Added support for floatingpoint printing on AIX
-
- I am interested to hear if someone is interested in a kernel based
- filesystem for Solaris that uses packet writing on the CD-Recorder.
- The filesystem will create a single session CD that may be finally converted
- to a hybrid filesystem that allows to be read as
- ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge extensions too.
- Please mail suggestions to: wofs@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
-
- The cdrecord distribution contains a SCSI user level transport library.
- The SCSI library is suitable to talk to any SCSI device without having
- a special driver for it.
- Cdrecord may be easily ported to any system that has a
- SCSI device driver similar to the scg driver.
-
- The SCSI transport library has been taken from the sformat program.
- Sformat is the first SCSI disk formatting/analyzing/repairing that runs on
- SunOS/Solaris. The first release of sformat has been made for SunOS 3.0 in 1986
- (two years before Sun introduced their format utility). Sformat source
- including 12 years of competence in SCSI disk handling is available
- on:
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat
-
- On SunOS/Solaris:
- You *need* the SCSI general driver 'scg' in order to run cdrecord.
-
- SunOS 4.1.3 only:
- The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 J÷rg Schilling,
- it is supplied binary in a loadable format.
- There is no future support, there is no non loadable support.
-
- Solaris only:
- The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 J÷rg Schilling,
- it is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested
- on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc).
-
- Solaris only:
- It is _nice to have_ the 'fbk' driver to mount files that contain
- images of file systems. Fbk means File simulates Block Device.
- It is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested
- on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc).
-
- cdrecord compiles on SunOS, but you will need a specific scg driver for
- SunOS in this case.
-
- Cdrecord has been implemented with a Philips CDD 521.
- Cdrecord now is maintained with the following drives:
-
- COMPRO/Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7502
- Philips CDD-2000
- TEAC CD-R55S
- Yamaha CDR-400
-
- It should run also on:
-
- All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives
- All ATAPI/mmc compliant drives
-
- COMPRO CW-7502
- Dysan CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
- Dysan CR-1622
- DynaTec CDM-240J (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
- DynaTec CDM-240 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- DynaTec CDM-400 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Grundig CDR-100
- Hewlett Packard 4020i
- Hewlett Packard 6020i
- HP C4324/C4325 (HP SureStore 4020i/6020i)
- HP 7100
- HP 7110
- HP 7200
- HP 8100
- Hi-Val CD-R (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
- JVC XR-W2001 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
- JVC XR-W2010 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
- JVC XR-W2020 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
- Kodak PCD-200 or Kodak PCD-200 Plus
- Kodak PCD-225
- Kodak PCD-240
- Kodak PCD-600 (not tested)
- Matsushita CW-7502
- Memorex CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
- Memorex CR-1622
- Memorex CRW-1622
- Microboards PlayWrite 2000 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- Microboards PlayWrite 4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Microboards PlayWrite 4001RW
- MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x6
- Mitsumi CR-2401-TS (not tested)
- Mitsumi CR-2600-TE
- Mitsumi CR-2801
- Mitsumi CR-4801
- Olympus CDS615E
- Olympus CDS620E (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- Olympus CD-R2x6 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- Optima Dis Kovery 650 CD-R (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- OTI CDRW 965
- Panasonic CW-7502
- Philips CDD 521 (CDD521/02 Revision: 2.06 has bad firmware - seems not to work)
- Philips CDD 521 (upgraded units only: ID: CDD521/10 Revision: 2.07)
- Philips CDD 522
- Philips CDD 2000
- Philips CDD 2600
- Philips CDD 3600
- Philips CDD 3610
- Philips Omniwriter 26
- Philips Omniwriter 26A
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000 (see TEAC/JVC): Need to upgrade firmware to 2.35
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-4x4
- Pioneer DW-S114X
- Plasmon CDR 4220 (not tested)
- Plasmon RF-4100
- Plasmon RF-4102
- Plasmon CDR 4400 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Plasmon CDR 480
- Plextor PX-R24CS (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
- Plextor PX-R412C
- Procom PCDR 4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Ricoh RO-1420C
- Ricoh MP-6200
- Ricoh MP-6200I
- Ricoh MP-6201
- Smart & Friendly CD-R1002 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- Smart & Friendly CD-R1004 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Smart & Friendly CD-R2004 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
- Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PLUS
- Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PRO
- Smart & Friendly CD-R4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
- Smart & Friendly CD-R4006
- Smart & Friendly CD-R4012
- Smart & Friendly CD-RW226
- Sony CDU920S
- Sony CDU924S
- Sony CDU926S
- Sony CDU928
- Sony CDU940S
- TEAC CD-R50S
- TEAC CD-R55S
- Taiyo Yuden CD-WO EW-50
- Traxdata CDR-4120
- Traxdata CDRW-4260
- Turtle Beach 2040R (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
- Wearnes CD-R622
- Wearnes CD-R632P
- Yamaha CDR-100
- Yamaha CDR-102
- Yamaha CDR-200
- Yamaha CDR-400(Firmware revision 1.0d and up otherwise upgrade)
- Yamaha CDR-401
- Yamaha CRW-4001
- Yamaha CRW-2260
- Yamaha CRW-4260
-
- Multi-session has not been tested with the Plasmon RF-4100
-
- All companies that support me with SCSI command reference manuals and drives
- will get (continued) support in the following releases.
-
- The following drives will never be supported by cdrecord because they are too old:
-
- JVC XR-W1001
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-202
- Ricoh RS-9200CD
-
- The following dries are curently not supported because I don't get specs:
- (some of them may partially work: see above)
-
- Creative Labs CDR 4210
- JVC XR-W2001
- JVC XR-W2010
- JVC XR-W2020
- Panasonic CW-7501
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020
- Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040
- Plasmon CDR-4240
- Ricoh RS-1060C
- Sony CDW-900E
-
-
- All companies that support me with SCSI command reference manuals and drives
- will get (continued) support in the following releases.
-
- To install get:
-
- cdrecord-1.6.1.tar.gz The cdrecord distribution.
-
- Solaris only:
-
- SCHILYscg.sparc.tar.Z The scg driver in pkgadd format (sparc).
- SCHILYfbk.sparc.tar.Z The fbk driver in pkgadd format (sparc).
- SCHILYscg.i386.tar.Z The scg driver in pkgadd format (x86).
- SCHILYfbk.i386.tar.Z The fbk driver in pkgadd format (x86).
-
- NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
- tar may get some minor trouble.
-
- WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file!
- All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
-
- The files are located on:
-
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ ...
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg/ ...
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/fbk/ ...
-
- The cdrecord distribution contains a SCSI user level transport library.
- The SCSI library is suitable to talk to any SCSI device without having
- a special driver for it.
-
- If you need mkisofs, it is located on:
-
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/mkisofs-1.11.tar.gz
-
- but it is also contained in cdrecord-1.6.1
-
- Joerg
-