Re: growisofs failing on some iso files

[Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 04/17/2012 05:07 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> I collected what i learned about burning optical media in
>    http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/doc/cookbook.txt
> This includes many valuable insights gained by studying growisofs.

Thanks, this will help me, I'll go through it.

> Could you please add a comment that my diagnoses are quick shots
> in order to illustrate the wide variety of listed problems.
>
> Each such report deserves individual inspection as long as the reporter
> is still available, can answer questions, and can make experiments.
> I offer to care about them, if they are brought to my attention. E.g. by
> the cdwrite list.
> Our mileage may vary.

Comment added.

> DVD-R and unformatted DVD-RW are normally handled much the same.
> But the DVD-RW was blanked in mode fast and you got a honest DVD drive:
>
> > /dev/sr0: FEATURE 21h is not on, engaging DAO...
>
> Feature 21h is "Incremental Streaming", a packet write type for DVD-R
> and unformatted DVD-RW. It allows multi-session, i.e. the "grow" in
> growisofs. Therefore growisofs uses it by default.
> Incremental Streaming is always aligned to 32 KiB.
> ...

Thanks very much for all the information, it's much more clear now.

Have a nice day

Honza