Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

What else might be wrong? Googling reveals that my newer writer might be
"ATAPI". Is this important in this context? I found a few rants about 
ATAPI. I couldn't make out whether the author(s) thought it was good, 
but poorly supported by Linux, or bad in itself. How should the setups 
for these two drives differ (if at all) if one is "ATAPI" and the other 
is not?

Paul

David Purton wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:57:27AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I notice a slight difference in the messages from cdrecord when I
> > write using these: The newer, non-working writer messages contain an
> > extra message "BURN-Free is OFF" What does this mean and does it
> > have anything to do with the CDs being unuseable on any other
> > computers?
> >    
>
> I wouldn't think so - from cdrecord man page:
>
>  driveropts=option list
>    Set  driver  specific options. The options are specified a comma
>    separated  list.   To  get  a  list   of   valid   options   use
>    driveropts=help together with the -checkdrive option.  Currently
>    implemented driver options are:
>
>    burnfree
>      Turn the support for Buffer  Underrun  Free  writing  on.
>      This  only  works for drives that support Buffer Underrun
>      Free technology.  This may be called:  Sanyo  BURN-Proof,
>      Ricoh Just-Link, Yamaha Lossless-Link or similar.
>
>      The  default  is to turn BURN-Free off, regardless of the
>      defaults of the drive.
>
>    noburnfree
>      Turn the support for Buffer Underrun Free writing off.
>
> cheers
>
> dc
>
>