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- NEW features of cdrecord-1.8a16:
-
- - added makefile and include defines for Netwinder "armv4l" - Strongarm 110
-
- - Added a hint for SVr4/Posix real time scheduling to the man page
-
- - Use only DFLTPHYS for DMA on FreeBSD 3.0
-
- - Fixed a bug that prevented to use the Plasmon RF-4100 after it
- already worked. The bug was recently introduced by a change
- in the handling of mode pages.
-
- - Support for ACER CR-4020C
-
- - Ingnore settings for dev= in /etc/devault/cdrecord if the
- -scanbus option was specified.
-
- - modified verbose printout to prevent overwriting the position
- with the error message
-
- mkisofs:
-
- - man page updated
-
- - -volset-size -volset-seqno options added to allow multi-volume
- archives (e.g. OS installation CD sets). NOTE: -volset-size must
- be specified before -volset-seqno on each command line.
-
- mkisofs patches from James Pearson:
-
- cdda2wav:
-
- - changed default overlap to 0 sectors (no overlap)
-
- - version string includes os (for easier feedback)
-
- - the scsi commands use page aligned transfer buffers
- (Buffer handling changed to avoid problems on FreeBSD-3.x/CAM)
-
- - now the availability of shared memory is checked
-
- - fixes for nextstep
-
- - changed the synchronization method of overlapping sectors
- (low jitter drives should work with -P1)
-
- - new code to trash the cdrom buffer (when offsets grew too big)
-
- - code restructuring in order to prepare for a single process
- non-FIFO version
-
- - detect when fork() is not available
-
- - fixed bug with -e and -w
-
- - fixed bug with devices like /dev/sga
-
- - reintroduced signal handlers to do clean up work on signals
-
- - new option -J, which prints disc information and exits
-
- - first support for OSs, which cannot do fork() (depends on HAVE_FORK)
-
- - new option -J prints info and exits
- - fix for the new -J option :-)
-
- - fixed a bug with -e and -w options
-
- - fixed a bug with device settings like /dev/sga
-
- - reversed the omission of the signal handler in order to do clean up
- operations when being signalled
-
- CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:
-
- To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin32-beta20 and install it.
- then create a symlink from /bin to the .../bin directory where bash is located.
- Now run 'make' ...
-
- The files are located on:
-
- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
-
- 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.
-
- Joerg
-