Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,bln.comp.sun,comp.publish.cdrom.software,de.comp.periph.cdrom,alt.cd-rom,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,de.de.comp.os.linux.misc,maus.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.hp.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: cdrecord 1.5 has been released Keywords: CD-R CD-RW CDRecord CDwrite SunOS Solaris Linux SGI IRIX FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD HP-UX This is Version 1.5 of cdrecord Cdrecord allows you to create CD's on a CD-Recorder. Cdrecord runs on: SunOS 4.1.3 or later: sparc. Solaris 2.3 or later: sparc and x86. Linux: x86 sparc and alpha. NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD: x86 sparc SGI IRIX: mips HP-UX: hppa NEW features of cdrecord-1.5: In short: Added support for *BSD, HP-UX and SGI-IRIX Added support for the new SCSI-3/mmc drives (Yamaha CDR-400, Ricoh MP-6200) Verbose: - added support for the Yamaha CDR-400 and other SCSI-3/mmc conforming drives like Ricoh MP-6200 - Pre-alpha support for Teac (one data track in first session) With help from Bill_Swartz@twolf.com and tjko@math.jyu.fi (Timo Kokkonen) - Bug fix for Philips CDD-521 and CDD-522 drives Now these old Philips and Kodak drives work again. - added support for FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (could be better if *BSD would upgrade kernel to support SCSI device files) - Support for SGI/IRIX (should be complete for now) SGI is fully supported (as SunOS/Solaris). Error recognition SCSI bus scanning and DMA residual count is fully supprted. - Support for HP-UX - New options: -inq only do SCSI inquiry -checkdrive check if a driver for this drive is present driver=name allows to select a specific driver by hand. To get a list of drivers use: cdrecord driver=help -scanbus scan SCSI bus for drives and print description -nofix do not fixate the disk - Byte-order of all Recorders will be automatically converted to BIG Endian This is the reason for the reordering of the output. NOTE: the verbose track listing may not be the same ad the -swap flags instead it lists if cdrecord will really need to swab bytes. - Exit codes != 0 if somthing bad happenes while burning a disk. - Automatically ejects/reloads the disk if Philips drive needs it because of firmware status problems. - added support for Smart & Friendly - Added support for Taiyo Yuden CD-WO EW-50 (not tested) - Better rounding for verbose printing - Better verbose output to identify used CD-R driver type - Try to open /dev/sg0 ... on Linux too to avoid problems - Add /usr/src/linux/include to include list on Linux - Better -toc listing - #include to be able to compile mkisofs on *BSD - Linux hack with mapping for more than one SCSI Bus - Hack to deal with a NetBSD/sparc SCSI driver bug (until fixed in driver) - Fix bug that would make mkisofs dump core on *BSD (my printf code curently cannot use the non-standard floatingpoint routines on *BSD) - -fix should now work even with Sony and SCSI-3/mmc drives - Better manual entry for the -isosize option - -isosize option disabled on non-seekable files - Completely rewritten drive recognition. - renamed the "errno" struct member in scg_cmd to "ux_errno" for the new GNU libc. This is needed for the new debian Linux. - Bug in scsi_load() corrected - cdrecord now loads the tray on a Yamaha CDR-400t and Teac CD-R50S - Bug fix in mkisofs for the times in the ISO9660 Volume descritor. The times have been only correct on Linux (by accident) before. Timezone now supported too. - Rewritten SCSI hack code to reduce number of open files. - Rewritten SCSI hack code for Linux will try to do SCSI target mapping even for old kernels on systems with more than one SCSI bus. - Verbose track listing moved past inquiry output - Copyright/Release-# output is always present if Inquiry output is present. I am interested to hear if someone is interested in a kernel based filesystem for Solaris that uses packet writing on the CD-Recorder. The filesystem will create a single session CD that may be finally converted to a hybrid filesystem that allows to be read as ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge extensions too. Please mail suggestions to: wofs@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de The cdrecord distribution contains a SCSI user level transport library. The SCSI library is suitable to talk to any SCSI device without having a special driver for it. Cdrecord may be easily ported to any system that has a SCSI device driver similar to the scg driver. The SCSI transport library has been taken from the sformat program. Sformat is the first SCSI disk formatting/analyzing/repairing that runs on SunOS/Solaris. The first release of sformat has been made for SunOS 3.0 in 1986 (two years before Sun introduced their format utility). Sformat source including 10 years of competence in SCSI disk handling is available on: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat On SunOS/Solaris: You *need* the SCSI general driver 'scg' in order to run cdrecord. SunOS 4.1.3 only: The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 Jörg Schilling, it is supplied binary in a loadable format. There is no future support, there is no non loadable support. Solaris only: The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 Jörg Schilling, it is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc). Solaris only: It is _nice to have_ the 'fbk' driver to mount files that contain images of file systems. Fbk means File simulates Block Device. It is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc). cdrecord compiles and runs on Solaris x86, thanks to gert@fwi.uva.nl (Gert Poletiek) who did the tests. The bitorder problems have been eliminated. Cdrecord-1.3 or later adopts the right BUF_SIZE for each architecture. This is to reduce some performance problems on Solaris x86. It may be that the reason for this performance problems is that the PC-architecture has no IO-MMU and therefore is not able to do DVMA. If this points out to be the reason, I have to change the scg driver & cdrecord, but this would be needed on Linux anyway. cdrecord should compile on SunOS, but you will need the scg driver for SunOS in this case. Cdrecord has been implemented with a Philips CDD 521. Cdrecord now is maintained with a Philips CDD-2000 It runs also on: DynaTec CDM-240J (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4) Grundig CDR-100 (not tested) Hewlett Packard 4020i Hewlett Packard 6020i HP C4324/C4325 (HP SureStore 4020i/6020i) Hi-Val CD-R (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4) JVC XR-W2010 (uses TEAC pre-alpha code - see below) Kodak PCD-200 or Kodak PCD-200 Plus Kodak PCD-225 Kodak PCD-600 MitsumiCR-2401-TS (not tested) Olympus CDS615E Philips CDD 521 (CDD521/02 Revision: 2.06 has bad firmware - seems not to work) Philips CDD 521 (upgraded units only: ID: CDD521/10 Revision: 2.07) Philips CDD 522 Philips CDD 2000 Philips CDD 2600 Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020 (see TEAC/JVC) Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040 (see TEAC/JVC) Pinnacle Micro RCD-4x4 (see TEAC/JVC but no auto device detect: use driver=teac_cdr50 please report inquiry) Plasmon CDR 4220 (not tested) Plasmon RF-4100 Ricoh RO-1420C Ricoh MP-6200 Smart & Friendly CD-R2004 Sony CDU920S Sony CDU924S Sony CDU926S Sony CDU940S TEAC CD-R50S (Pre-alpha support: one data track only, use at your own risk) please run each session in "script" and report errors Taiyo Yuden CD-WO EW-50(please test: has been reported to be a Philips CDD-522) Yamaha CDR-100 Yamaha CDR-102 Yamaha CDR-200 Yamaha CDR-400(Firmware revision 1.0d and up otherwise upgrade) Multi-session has not been tested with the Plasmon RF-4100 All companies that support me with SCSI command reference manuals and drives will get (continued) support in the following releases. To install get: SCHILYscg.sparc.tar.Z The scg driver in pkgadd format (sparc). SCHILYfbk.sparc.tar.Z The fbk driver in pkgadd format (sparc). SCHILYscg.i386.tar.Z The scg driver in pkgadd format (x86). SCHILYfbk.i386.tar.Z The fbk driver in pkgadd format (x86). cdrecord-1.1.tar.Z The cdrecord for Solaris distribution. 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. The files are located on: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ ... ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg/ ... ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/fbk/ ... The cdrecord distribution contains a SCSI user level transport library. The SCSI library is suitable to talk to any SCSI device without having a special driver for it. If you need mkisofs, it is located on: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/mkisofs-1.11.tar.gz but it is also contained in cdrecord-1.5 Joerg