Re: Oddness piping mkisofs into recent cdrecord versions

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > Craig Harding wrote:
> >     
> > > I've had the same problem and if you use tsize=`mkisofs -print-size 
> > > -quiet file.iso`s as one of the flags then it should work..
> > > Make note that the 's' after the tsize cmd is correct, check the man 
> > > page for this flag..
> > >
> > > eg: mkisofs file.iso | cdrecord -data tsize=`mkisofs -print-size 
> > > -quiet file.iso`s -
> > >
> > > craig.
> > >       
> > The issue is that the mkisofs is running on another machine over a 
> > network. I want to burn a CD, and it is really not desirable to jump 
> > through hoops to do so, nor to try and get the tsize= through reliably. 
> > A drawback to the recording modes or ISO filesystem characteristics. As 
> > noted an oddity rather than a bug.
> >     
>
> cdrecord did warn about the planned change for 2.5 years.
> If you did change your scripts before, you did not notice the final change.
>
> Note that you may either call cdrecord -tao or use tsize=
tsize is clearly a problem, since it requires running the mkisofs twice 
to get the size, and -tao doesn't seem to work, for some reason cdrecord 
thinks the TAO capability is missing. As noted, growisofs has no such 
problem, and can write single or multi-session to this device, but will 
only do DVD, which is slightly more expensive for media.

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