Re: Odd messages from cdrecord

Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-record
Organization TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have been getting some odd warnings (see WARNING) in the 
> attachments) about media size, and the time to start burning is 
> sometimes several minutes. I see this on four machines, built 
> recently, some DVD some DVD-D/L capable, some running very recent 
> versions of cdrtools, no difference in behavior so I picked the 
> example most convenient. Brand of DVD and burner doesn't make much 
> difference, I buy cheap store brand DVDs, but tried a few brand name 
> with no change. All produce clean images reliably.
>
> See attachment for details, results are perfect, so this is only for 
> information. Of course taking a minute or tow off the start time would 
> be really great if there's a trick to do so.
>
> Let me know if more information is useful.
>
Looks as if the attachment got stripped by the incoming mailer, let me 
try another type...

-- 
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc

"You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back."
    - Representative Earl Pomeroy,  Democrat of North Dakota
on the A.I.G. executives who were paid bonuses  after a federal bailout.
CDrecSlow.log (text/plain, 2.4 KB)
pixels:davidsen> CDrecord dev=/dev/dvd -v -eject Fedora-11-Beta-i386-DVD.iso
CDrecord: No write mode specified.
CDrecord: Asuming -sao mode.
CDrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
CDrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
devname: '/dev/dvd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'ATAPI   '
Identifikation : 'DVD A  DH20A4P  '
Revision       : '9P59'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD+R/DL 
Profile: DVD+R 
Profile: DVD+RW 
Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording 
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording 
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording 
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite 
Profile: DVD-RAM 
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording (current)
Profile: DVD-ROM 
Profile: CD-RW 
Profile: CD-R 
Profile: CD-ROM 
Profile: Removable Disk 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
Drive buf size : 1182464 = 1154 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  3635 MB        
Total size:     3635 MB = 1861396 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
WARNING: Phys disk size 2298496 differs from rzone size 2297888! Prerecorded disk?
WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 2495103
Blocks total: 2297888 Blocks current: 2297888 Blocks remaining: 436492
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 16 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 3635 of 3635 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  15.2x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 3812139008/3812139008 (1861396 sectors).
Writing  time:  303.413s
Average write speed   9.1x.
Min drive buffer fill was 75%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   10.063s
CDrecord: fifo had 60046 puts and 60046 gets.
CDrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 12633 times full, min fill was 82%.
pixels:davidsen>
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