NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a02: NOTE: There are 2000 new lines of code and aprox. 1000 lines of code did change within the last two weeks. Although I thoroughly tested every line of my code, there may be bugs... Please report if you have any problem that is not present with cdrtools-1.11a01. All: Libscg: Rscsi: Cdrecord: - I hope that the 90 minute CD capacity warning now will finally disappear for DVD writers. - Old test code removed that prevented cdrecord from being able to write manually configured indices. Note that the index lists from the *.inf files with using the -useinfo option alway worked. - -force will force cdrecord to ingnore any failed forced OPC. currently this is only done if the drive does not support forced OPC. - Do forced OPC before blanking a CD-RW - Driveropts "burnproof" renamed to "burnfree". This has been done as this technology now appears in the MMC standard. Currently, I know of the following similar technologies: BURN-Proof Sanyo Just-Link Ricoh Super-Buffer Philips Write-Proof TEAC Safe-Burn Yamaha Buffer Underrun Free MMC-3 As I do not yet own Philips, TEAC or Yamaha drives with the technology, I cannot tell whether they are MMC-3 compliant. - Cdrecord now shows whether BURN-Free is active. This makes sense as Ricoh's "Just-Link" is enabled by default. Unfortunately, the way "Just-link" is implemented is not compliant with the MMC standard. We will have to wait until I get the needed information from Ricoh. - Support for MMC RAW mode writing. This allows to do disk at once recording on Philips drives that do not support SAO. You may write audio tracks in RAW mode. There are some new and most likely transient options: -raw16 Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+Q Subchannel -raw96r Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in raw mode) -raw96p Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in packed mode) Indices are fully supported in RAW mode. MCN & ISRC are not yet suported in RAW mode, they are silently discarded. I know that cdrecord currently does not work in RAW/R96P mode. It is not clear whether this is a bug in cdrecord or in the Plextor firmware as I did not yet found another drive that claimes to support RAW7R96P. If you find other problems in RAW mode or if you find new bugs introduced in old write modes, please send a bug report. - Cdrecord now checks the properties of the writer. If a specific write mode is not supported by the writer, cdrecord warns you and makes a suggestion for a similar alternate write mode. With the curent structure of cdrecord, it is not possible to silently e.g. change the write mode from -dao to -raw96r - MMC compliant drives are automatically scanned for supported write modes. This should help to make cdrecord work without manual static configuration. My hope is still to have no need to know all drive properties in advance, so new drives will continue to work as long as they are standard comliant enough for cdrecord. NOTE for GUI implementors: the line starting with the text: "Checking possible write modes:" will go away in the near future. The line starting with: "Supported modes:" will remain and should be checked for possible write modes. Cdda2wav: Readcd: Scgcheck: Mkisofs: TODO: - read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task: Peter Berendi <berendi2@webdesign.hu> announced that he likes to be the volounteer for this task. Unfortunately, I did no hear again from him, but I got a proposal from "Krisztian Gede" <nameless@mail.datanet.hu> who also likes to do the job. Note that this can never 100% correctly as there is no relation between the names on the master filesystem, the ISO-9660 names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are untranslated with respect to the origina files on the master filesystem. - implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes - add libecc/edc for CDI and similar. - add UDF support CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES: To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it. For more information read README.win32 The files are located on: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ... 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. WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file! Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly. Joerg
