Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Thu Feb 28 2008 - 13:38:19 EST


Frans Pop wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons.
There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord
fork called "wodim".

There is also the 100% certainty that this reply was from a known troll and
should just be ignored.

Actually he is the author of the software in question, and has maintained it for a decade. Anyone who reads the cdwrite mailing list knows that I have criticized his endless whining that Linux doesn't do things right, but aside from the cosole output whining about Linux from his program[1], and the fact that it must run as root[2], the real cdrecord works in more cases, with more hardware, produces working burns in more cases, and has more useful output, and is the software to use in preference to wodim.

[1] cdrecord advises to use Linux 2.4 (and I think Solaris), and says you should avoid using readable names for devices and use some pseudo-SCSI numbers he likes instead.

[2] Linux developers filter commands sent to devices to protect them from commands like erase BIOS. Joerg uses vendor proprietary commands for greater functionality, and says if you have write on the device it shouldn't be filtered and those commands should be permitted by the filter. (That is a simplification, there are personal issues on both sides).

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