Re: Why burnfree is off by default?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
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> > "ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es" <ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es> wrote:
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> >
> > > You mean that even if there's no buffer underrun the 50 bits or 14 bits
> > > are always lost in writes around the disk?
> > >
> > > Otherwise that could be always left on by default and warn the user when
> > > the disk write is completed that the disk used burnfree at least once
> > > and may not be conformant.
> > >
> > > Anyway I'd like to know the actual reason to 
> > > turn burnfree of by default
> > > from Joerg.
> > >      
> > This has been discussed many times, check the archives.....
> > If burnfree is on, the quality is 
> >    
> lower and the first technology
>  
>
> > in this area did turn it off by default and the standard says it is
> > off by default and....
> >    
>
> People really care about their CDs working and not having coasters!
>
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
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> > Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> >
> > > According to Jörg, the feature is off by default to ensure continuity
> > > and compatibility with <whatever I've forgotten and don't care about>.
> > >      
> > If you don't know, why do you answer at all?
> >    
>
> If you know please say so! For the love of God!
>
>  
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> > > In my opinion, not a competent reason.
> > >      
> > Not a competent answer....
> >    
>
> Why 
> do you care to reply at all?
> How can you be such an asshole?
>
> I think there's a real need to have an upstream source for cdrtools that
> has all the fixes that Joerg doesn't want to apply even not having a
> competent reason.
>
> Distributions like SUSE, Fedora, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake have
> many of the patches that Joerg doesn't want to apply and they are
> diverging quite a bit. There's a need to create an official upstream
> source with all these patches included that will remove work for the
> distribution packagers and would allow other distributions to have a
> working cdrecord instead the 
> broken one that provides Joerg.
>
> Does anyone one know of such an effort to prevent fixes entering cdrecord
> because of Joerg?
If you don't like it, write your own. While I disagree on a number of 
things, it's his program, he's maintained it for years and it works 
really well. If you want burnfree on, turn it on and stop whining. He 
gave you the way to get around it, and he supports the ide-cd interface 
although he whines on that one.

I think pro-dvd should be scrapped or marketed competently also, but I'm 
not going to start a project to do it. The fixes to get bad firmware 
working are HARD, and Joerg does them right if possible. I'd like a 
single version, but not if it comes from someone who isn't tracking the 
guts of the official cdrecord.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979