Cdrecord
is used to record data or audio Compact Discs on an Orange Book
CD-Recorder.
The
device
refers to
scsibus/target/lun
of the CD-Recorder. Communication on
SunOS
is done with the SCSI general driver
scg.
Other operating systems are using a library simulation of this driver.
Possible syntax is:
dev=scsibus,target,lun
or
dev=target,lun.
In the latter case, the CD-Recorder has to be connected to the default
SCSI bus of the machine.
Scsibus,
target
and
lun
are integer numbers.
Some operating systems or SCSI transport implementations may require to
specify a filename in addition.
In this case the correct syntax for the device is:
dev=devicename:scsibus,target,lun
or
dev=devicename:target,lun.
If the name of the device node that has been specified on such a system
refers to exactly one SCSI device, a shorthand in the form
dev=devicename:@
or
dev=devicename:@,lun
may be used instead of
dev=devicename:scsibus,target,lun.
To access remote SCSI devices, you need to prepend the SCSI device name by
a remote device indicator. The remote device indicator is either
REMOTE:user@host:
or
.BIREMOTE:host:
A valid remote SCSI device name may be:
REMOTE:user@host:
to allow remote SCSI bus scanning or
REMOTE:user@host:1,0,0
to access the SCSI device at
host
connected to SCSI bus # 1,target 0 lun 0.
To make
dvdrecord
portable to all UNIX platforms, the syntax
dev=devicename:scsibus,target,lun
is preferred as is hides OS specific knowledge about device names from the user.
A specific OS must not necessarily support a way to specify a real device file name nor a
way to specify
scsibus,target,lun.
Scsibus
0 is the default SCSI bus on the machine. Watch the boot messages for more
information or look into
/var/adm/messages
for more information about the SCSI configuration of your machine.
If you have problems to figure out what values for
scsibus,target,lun
should be used, try the
-scanbus
option of
dvdrecord
described below.
If a file /etc/dvdrecord.conf exists, the parameter to the
dev=
option may also be a drive name label in said file (see FILES section).
On
SVr4
compliant systems,
dvdrecord
uses the the real time class to get the highest scheduling priority that is
possible (higher than all kernel processes).
On systems with
POSIX real time scheduling
dvdrecord uses real time scheduling too,
but may not be able to gain a priority that is higher than all kernel processes.
In
Track At Once
mode, each
track
corresponds to a single file that contains the prepared data for that track.
If the argument is
`-',
standard input is used for that track.
Only one track may be taken from
stdin.
GENERAL OPTIONS
General options must be before any track file name or track option.
-version
Print version information and exit.
-v
Increment the level of general verbosity by one.
This is used e.g. to display the progress of the writing process.
-V
Increment the verbose level in respect of SCSI command transport by one.
This helps to debug problems
during the writing process, that occur in the CD-Recorder.
If you get incomprehensible error messages you should use this flag
to get more detailed output.
-VV
will show data buffer content in addition.
Using
-V
or
-VV
slows down the process and may be the reason for a buffer underrun.
debug=#, -d
Set the misc debug value to # (with debug=#) or increment
the misc debug level by one (with -d). If you specify
-dd,
this equals to
debug=2.
This may help to find problems while opening a driver for libscg
as well as with sector sizes and sector types.
Using
-debug
slows down the process and may be the reason for a buffer underrun.
kdebug=#, kd=#
Tell the
scg-driver
to modify the kernel debug value while SCSI commands are running.
-silent, -s
Do not print out a status report for failed SCSI commands.
-force
Force to continue on some errors.
This option currently implements some tricks that will allow
you to blank bad CD-RW disks.
-dummy
The CD-Recorder will go through all steps of the recording process,
but the laser is turned off during this procedure.
It is recommended to run several tests before actually writing to a
Compact Disk, if the timing and load response of the system is not known.
-dao
Set
Disk At Once mode.
This currently only works with MMC drives that support
Session At Once
mode.
-raw
Set
RAW writing mode.
Using this option defaults to
-raw96r.
-raw96r
Select
Set
RAW writing mode
with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of raw P-W subchannel data resulting
in a sector size of 2448 bytes.
This is the preferred raw writing mode as it gives best control over the
CD writing process.
-raw96p
Select
Set
RAW writing mode
with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of packed P-W subchannel data resulting
in a sector size of 2448 bytes.
This is the less preferred raw writing mode as only a few recorders support
it and some of these recorders have bugs in the firmware implementation.
Don't use this mode if your recorder supports
-raw96r
or
-raw16.
-raw16
Select
Set
RAW writing mode
with 2352 byte sectors plus 6 bytes of P-Q subchannel data resulting
in a sector size of 2368 bytes.
If a recorder does not support
-raw96r,
this is the preferred raw writing mode.
It does not allow to write
CD-Text
or
CD+Grahpics
but it is the only raw writing mode in cheap CD writers.
As these cheap writers in most cases do not support
-dao
mode.
Don't use this mode if your recorder supports
-raw96r.
-multi
Allow multi session CD's to be made. This flag needs to be present
on all sessions of a multi session disk,
except you want to create a session that will be
the last session on the media.
The fixation will be done in a way that allows the CD-Recorder to
append additional sessions later. This is done by generation a TOC
with a link to the next program area. The so generated media is not
100% compatible to manufactured CD's (except for CDplus).
Use only for recording of multi session CD's.
If this option is present, the default track type is
CD-ROM XA mode 2.
The
Sony
drives have no hardware support for
CD-ROM XA mode 2.
You have to specify the
-data
option in order to create multi session disks on these drives.
As long as dvdrecord does not have a coder for converting data sectors
to audio sectors, you need to force
CD-ROM
sectors by including the
-data
option if you like to record a multisession disk in DAO/SAO mode.
Not all drives allow multisession CD's in DAO/SAO mode.
-msinfo
Retrieve multi session info in a form suitable for
mkisofs-1.10
or later.
This option makes only sense with a CD that contains at least
one closed session and is appendable (not finally closed yet).
Some drives create error messages if you try to get the multi
session info for a disk that is not suitable for this operation.
-toc
Retrieve and print out the table of content or PMA of a CD.
With this option,
dvdrecord
will work with CD-R drives and with CD-ROM drives.
-atip
Retrieve and print out the ATIP (absolute Time in Pregroove) info of a CD
recordable or CD rewritable media.
With this option,
dvdrecord
will try to retrieve the ATIP info. If the actual drive does not support
to read the ATIP info, it may be that only a reduced set of information
records or even nothing is displayed. Only a limited number of MMC compliant
drives support to read the ATIP info.
If
dvdrecord
is able to retrieve the lead-in start time for the first session, it will try to
decode and print the manufacturer info from the media.
-fix
The disk will only be fixated (i.e. a TOC for a CD-Reader will be written).
This may be used, if for some reason the disk has been written but not
fixated. This option currently does not work with old TEAC drives (CD-R50S and
CD-R55S).
-nofix
Do not fixate the disk after writing the tracks. This may be used
to create an audio disk in steps. An un-fixated disk can usually not be used
on a non CD-writer type drive but there are audio CD players that will
be able to play such a disk.
-waiti
Wait for input to become available on standard input before trying to open
the SCSI driver. This allows
dvdrecord
to read it's input from a pipe even
when writing additional sessions to a multi session disk.
When writing another session to a multi session disk,
mkisofs
needs to read the old session from the device before writing output.
This cannot be done if
dvdrecord
opens the SCSI driver at the same time.
-load
Load the media and exit. This only works with a tray loading mechanism
but seems to be useful when using the Kodak disk transporter.
-eject
Eject disk after doing the work.
Some Devices (e.g. Philips) need to eject the medium before creating a new
disk. Doing a -dummy test and immediately creating a real disk would not
work on these devices.
speed=#
Set the speed factor of the writing process to #.
# is an integer, representing a multiple of the audio speed.
This is about 150 KB/s for CD-ROM and about 172 KB/s for CD-Audio.
If no
speed
option is present,
dvdrecord
will try to get the speed value from the
CDR_SPEED
environment.
If your drive has problems with
speed=2
or
speed=4,
you should try
speed=0.
blank=type
Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW before writing. The blanking type may be one of:
help
Display a list of possible blanking types.
all
Blank the entire disk. This may take a long time.
fast
Minimally blank the disk. This results in erasing the PMA, the TOC and the pregap.
track
Blank a track.
unreserve
Unreserve a reserved track.
trtail
Blank the tail of a track.
unclose
Unclose last session.
session
Blank the last session.
If used together with the
-force
flag, this option may be used to blank CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be
blanked. Note that you may need to specify
blank=all
because some drives will not continue with certain types of bad CD-RW
disks. Note also that
cdecord
does it's best if the
-force
flag is used but it finally depends on the drive's firmware
whether the blanking operation will succeed or not.
fs=#
Set the fifo (ring buffer) size to #.
You may use the same method as in
dd(1),
sdd(1)
or
star(1).
The number representing the size is taken in bytes unless otherwise specified.
If a number is followed directly by the letter `b', `k', `m', `s' of `f',
the size is multiplied by 512, 1024, 1024*1024, 2048 or 2352.
If the size consists of numbers separated by `x' or `*', multiplication of the
two numbers is performed.
Thus
fs=10x63k
will specify a fifo size of 630 kBytes.
The size specified by the
fs=
argument includes the shared memory that is needed for administration. This
is at least one page of memory.
If no
fs=
option is present,
dvdrecord
will try to get the fifo size value from the
CDR_FIFOSIZE
environment.
The default fifo size is currently 4 MB.
The fifo is used to increase buffering for the real time writing process.
It allows to run a pipe from
mkisofs
directly into
dvdrecord.
If the fifo is active and a pipe from
mkisofs
into
dvdrecord
is used to create a CD,
dvdrecord
will abort prior to do any modifications on the disk if
mkisofs
dies before it starts writing.
The recommended fifo size is between 4 and 32 MBytes.
As a rule of thumb, the fifo size should be at least equal to the size
of the internal buffer of the CD-Recorder and no more than half of
the physical amount of RAM available in the machine.
If the fifo size is big enough, the fifo statistics will print a fifo
empty count of zero and the fifo min fill is not below 20%.
It is not wise to use too much space for the fifo. If you need more
than 8 MB to write a CD on an idle machine, your machine is either
underpowered, has hardware problems or is mis-configured.
The sun4c architecture (e.g. a Sparcstation-2) has only MMU page table entries
for 16 MBytes per process. Using more than 14 MBytes for the fifo
may cause the operating system in this case to spend much time to constantly
reload the MMU tables. Newer machines from Sun do not have this MMU
hardware problem. I have no information on PC-hardware reflecting
this problem.
If you have buffer underruns or similar problems and observe a zero
fifo empty count,
you have hardware problems. The fifo size in this case is sufficient.
dev=target
Sets the SCSI target for the CD-Recorder, see notes above.
A typical device specification is
dev=6,0
.
If a filename must be provided together with the numerical target
specification, the filename is implementation specific.
The correct filename in this case can be found in the system specific
manuals of the target operating system.
On a
FreeBSD
system without
CAM
support, you need to use the control device (e.g.
/dev/rcd0.ctl).
A correct device specification in this case may be
dev=/dev/rcd0.ctl:@
.
On Linux, drives connected to a parallel port adapter are mapped
to a virtual SCSI bus. Different adapters are mapped to different
targets on this virtual SCSI bus.
If no
dev
option is present,
dvdrecord
will try to get the device from the
CDR_DEVICE
environment.
If the argument to the
dev=
option does not contain the characters ',', '/', '@' or ':',
it is interpreted as an label name that may be found in the file
/etc/dvdrecord.conf (see FILES section).
timeout=#
Set the default SCSI command timeout value to
# seconds.
The default SCSI command timeout is the minimum timeout used for sending
SCSI commands.
If a SCSI command fails due to a timeout, you may try to raise the
default SCSI command timeout above the timeout value of the failed command.
If the command runs correctly with a raised command timeout,
please report the better timeout value and the corresponding command to
the author of the program.
If no
timeout
option is present, a default timeout of 40 seconds is used.
driver=name
Allows to use a user supplied driver name for the device.
To get a list of possible drivers use
driver=help.
The reason for the existence of this option is to allow users to use
dvdrecord
with drives that are similar to supported drives but not known
directly by
dvdrecord.
Use this option with extreme care. If a wrong driver is used for a
device, the possibility of creating corrupted disks is high.
The minimum problem related to a wrong driver is that the
-speed
or
-dummy
will not work.
There are two special driver entries in the list:
cdr_simul
and
dvd_simul.
These driver entries are designed to make timing tests at any speed
or timing tests for drives that do not support the
-dummy
option.
The simulation drivers implement a drive with a buffer size of 1MB
that can be changed via the
CDR_SIMUL_BUFSIZE
environment variable.
The simulation driver correctly simulates even a buffer underrun condition.
If the
-dummy
option is present, the simulation is not aborted in case of a buffer underrun.
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 only the
burnfree
option is implemented to support Buffer Underrun Free writing with
drives that support Buffer Underrun Free technology.
This may be called:
Sanyo BURN-Proof,
Ricoh Just-Link
or similar.
-checkdrive
Checks if a driver for the current drive is present and exit.
If the drive is a known drive,
dvdrecord
uses exit code 0.
-prcap
Print the drive capabilities for SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives
as obtained from mode page 0x2A. Values marked with
kB
use 1000 bytes as kilo-byte, values marked with
KB
use 1024 bytes as Kilo-byte.
-inq
Do an inquiry for the drive, print the inquiry info and exit.
-scanbus
Scan all SCSI devices on all SCSI busses and print the inquiry
strings. This option may be used to find SCSI address of the
CD-Recorder on a system.
The numbers printed out as labels are computed by:
bus * 100 + target
-reset
Try to reset the SCSI bus where the CD recorder is located. This works not
on all operating systems.
-overburn
Allow
dvdrecord
to write more than the official size of a medium. This feature is usually
called
overburning
and depends on the fact that most blank media may hold more space than the
official size. As the official size of the lead-out area on the disk is
90 seconds (6750 sectors) and a disk usually works if there are at least
150 sectors of lead out, all media may be overburned by at least 88 seconds
(6600 sectors).
Most CD recorders only do overburning in
DAO
mode. Known exceptions are TEAC CD-R50S, TEAC CD-R55S and the Panasonic
CW-7502. There is no guarantee that your drive supports overburning at all.
Make a test to check if your drive implements the feature.
-ignsize
Ignore the known size of the medium. This options should be used with extreme
care, it exists only for debugging purposes don't use it for other reasons.
It is not needed to write disks with more than the nominal capacity.
This option implies
-overburn.
-useinfo
Use *.inf files to overwrite audio options.
If this option is used, the pregap size information is read from
the *.inf file that is associated with the file that contains the audio
data for a track.
defpregap=#
Set the default pre-gap size for all tracks except track number 1.
This option currently only makes sense with the TEAC drive when
creating track-at-once disks without the 2 second silence before each track.
This option may go away in future.
-packet
Set
Packet writing mode.
This is an experimental interface.
pktsize=#
Set the paket size to #, forces fixed packet mode.
This is an experimental interface.
-noclose
Do not close the current track, useful only when in packet writing mode.
This is an experimental interface.
mcn=med_cat_nr
Set the
Media Catalog Number
of the CD to
med_cat_nr.
-text
Write CD-Text created by
cdrecord
and based on information taken from a file that contains ascii information
for the text strings. Currently only the format in the
*.inf
files created by
cdda2wav
is supported. You need to use the
-useinfo
option in addition in order to tell
cdrecord
to read these files. If you like to write your own CD-Text information,
edit the
*.inf
files with a text editor and change the field that are relevant for
CD-Text.
textfile=filename
Write CD-Text based on information found in the binary file
filename.
This file must contain information in a data format defined in the
SCSI-3 MMC-2 standard and in the Red Book. The four byte size header that is
defined in the SCSI standard is optional and allows to make the recognition of
correct data less ambiguous.
This is the best option to be used to copy CD-Text data from existing CDs
that already carry CD-Text information. To get data in a format suitable
for this option use
cdrecord -vv -toc
to extract the information from disk.
TRACK OPTIONS
Track options may be mixed with track file names.
isrc=ISRC_number
Set the
International Standard Recording Number
for the next track to
ISRC_number.
index=list
Sets an index list for the next track.
In index list is a comma separated list of numbers that are counting
from index 1. The first entry in this list must contain a 0, the following
numbers must be an ascending list of numbers (counting in 1/75 seconds) that
represent the start of the indices. An index list in the form:
0,7500,15000 sets index 1 to the start of the track, index 2 100 seconds from
the start of the track and index 3 200 seconds from the start of the track.
-audio
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-DA
(similar to Red Book) audio format.
The file with data for this tracks should
contain stereo, 16-bit digital audio with 44100 samples/s.
The byte order should be the following: MSB left, LSB left,
MSB right, LSB right, MSB left and so on. The track should be a multiple of
2352 bytes. It is not possible to put the master image of an audio track
on a raw disk because
data will be read in multiple of 2352 bytes during the recording process.
If a filename ends in
.au
or
.wav
the file is considered to be a structured audio data file.
Cdrecord
assumes that the file in this case is a Sun audio file or a
Microsoft .WAV file
and extracts the audio data from the files by skipping over the
non-audio header information.
In all other cases, dvdrecord will only work correctly if the
audio data stream does not have any header.
Because many structured audio files do not have an integral
number of blocks (1/75th second) in length,
it is often necessary to specify the
-pad
option as well.
dvdrecord
recognizes that audio data in a .WAV file is stored in Intel
(little-endian) byte order, and will automatically byte-swap the data
if the CD recorder requires big-endian data.
Cdrecord
will reject any audio file that does not match the Red Book requirements
of 16-bit stereo samples in PCM coding at 44100 samples/second.
Using other structured audio data formats as input to
dvdrecord
will usually work if the structure of the data is the
structure described above (raw pcm data in big-endian byte order).
However, if the data format includes a header,
you will hear a click at the start of a track.
If neither
-data
nor
-audio
have been specified,
dvdrecord
defaults to
-audio
for all filenames that end in
.au
or
.wav
and to
-data
for all other files.
-swab
If this flag is present, audio data is assumed to be in byte-swapped
(little-endian) order. Some types of CD-Writers e.g. Yamaha, Sony and the
new SCSI-3/mmc drives require audio data to be presented in
little-endian order,
while other writers require audio data to be
presented in the big-endian (network) byte order normally used by the
SCSI protocol.
Cdrecord
knows if a CD-Recorder needs audio data in big- or little-endian order,
and corrects the byte order of the data stream to match the needs
of the recorder.
You only need the
-swab
flag if your data stream is in Intel (little-endian) byte order.
Note that the verbose output of
dvdrecord
will show you if swapping is necessary to make the byte order of
the input data fit the required byte order of the recorder.
Cdrecord
will not show you if the
-swab
flag was actually present for a track.
-data
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM mode 1
(Yellow Book) format. The data is a multiple of 2048 bytes.
The file with track data should contain an
ISO-9660 or Rock Ridge
filesystem image (see
mkisofs
for more details). If the track data is an
ufs
filesystem image, fragment size should be set to 2 KB or more to allow
CR-drives with 2 KB sector size to to be used for reading.
-data is the default, if no other flag is present.
If neither
-data
nor
-audio
have been specified,
dvdrecord
defaults to
-audio
for all filenames that end in
.au
or
.wav
and to
-data
for all other files.
-mode2
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM mode 2
format. The data is a multiple of 2048 bytes.
-xa1
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM XA mode 1
format. The data is a multiple of 2048 bytes.
-xa2
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM XA mode 2
format. The data is a multiple of 2048 bytes.
-cdi
If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CDI
format. The data is a multiple of 2048 bytes.
-isosize
Use the
ISO-9660
file system size as the size of the next track.
This option is needed if you want
dvdrecord
to directly read the image of a track from
a raw disk partition or from a
TAO
master CD. In the first case the option
-isosize
is needed to limit the size of the CD to the size of the ISO filesystem.
In the second case the option
-isosize
is needed to prevent
dvdrecord
from reading the two run out blocks that are appended by each CD-recorder
in track at once mode. These two run out blocks cannot be read and would
cause a buffer under run that would cause a defective copy.
Do not use this option on files created by
mkisofs
and in case
dvdrecord
reads the track data from
stdin.
In the first case, you would prevent
dvdrecord
from writing the amount of padding that has been appended by
mkisofs
and in the latter case, it will not work because
stdin
is not seekable.
If
-isosize
is used for a track,
dvdrecord
will automatically add padding for this track as if the
-pad
option has been used but the amount of padding may be less than the padding
written by
mkisofs.
Note that if you use
-isosize
on a track that contains Sparc boot information, the boot information will
be lost.
Note also that
this option cannot be used to determine the size of a file system
if the multi session option is present.
-pad
If the track is a data track, 15 sectors of zeroed data
will be added to the end of this and each subsequent data track.
In this case, the
-pad
option is superseded by the
padsize=
option. It will remain however as a shorthand for
padsize=15s.
If the
-pad
option refers to an audio track,
dvdrecord
will pad the audio data to be a multiple of 2352 bytes.
The audio data padding is done with binary zeroes which is
equal to absolute silence.
-pad
remains valid until disabled by
-nopad.
padsize=#
Set the amount of data to be appended as padding to the next track to #.
Opposed to the behavior of the
-pad
option, the value for
padsize=
is reset to zero for each new track.
See
fs=
option for possible arguments.
Use this option if your CD-drive is not able to read the last sectors of
a track or if you want to be able to read the CD
on a
Linux
system with the ISO-9660 filesystem read ahead bug.
If an empty file is used for track data,
this option may be used to create a disk that is entirely made of padding.
-nopad
Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
-shorttrack
Allow all subsequent tracks to violate the Read Book track length standard
which requires a minimum track length of 4 seconds.
This option is only useful when used in DAO mode.
Not all drives support this feature. The drive must be accept the
resulting CUE sheet.
-noshorttrack
Re-enforce the Red Book track length standard. Tracks must be
at least 4 seconds.
pregap=#
Set the pre-gap size for the next track.
This option currently only makes sense with the TEAC drive when
creating track-at-once disks without the 2 second silence before each track.
This option may go away in future.
-preemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks
will indicate that the audio data has been sampled with 50/15 ╣sec
preemphasis.
The data, however is not modified during the process of transferring from file
to disk.
This option has no effect on data tracks.
-nopreemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks
will indicate that the audio data has been mastered with linear data -
this is the default.
-copy
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks
of the resulting CD
will indicate that the audio data has permission to be copied without limit.
This option has no effect on data tracks.
-nocopy
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks
of the resulting CD
will indicate that the audio data has permission to be copied only once for
personal use -
this is the default.
-scms
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks
of the resulting CD
will indicate that the audio data has no permission to be copied anymore.
tsize=#
If the master image for the next track has been stored on a raw disk,
use this option
to specify the valid amount of data on this disk. If the image of the next
track is stored in a regular file, the size of that file is taken to determine
the length of this track.
If the track contains an ISO 9660 filesystem image use the
-isosize
option to determine the length of that filesystem image.
In Disk at Once mode and with some drives that use
the TEAC programming interface, even in Track at Once mode,
dvdrecord
needs to know the size of each track before starting to write the disk.
Cdrecord now checks this and aborts before starting to write.
If this happens you will need to run
mkisofs -print-size
before and use the output as an argument to the
tsize=
option of
dvdrecord.
See
fs=
option for possible arguments.
EXAMPLES
For all examples below, it will be assumed that the CD-Recorder is
connected to the primary SCSI bus of the machine. The SCSI target id is
set to 2.
To record a pure CD-ROM at double speed, using data from the file
cdimage.raw:
dvdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0 cdimage.raw
To create an image for a ISO 9660 filesystem with Rock Ridge extensions:
mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw /home/joerg/master/tree
To check the resulting file before writing to CD on Solaris:
mount -r -F fbk -o type=hsfs /dev/fbk0:cdimage.raw /mnt
On Linux:
mount cdimage.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
Go on with:
ls -lR /mnt
umount /mnt
If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the structure of
the filesystem is not too complex, dvdrecord will run without creating an
image of the ISO 9660 filesystem. Simply run the pipeline:
The recommended minimum fifo size for running this pipeline is 4 MBytes.
As the default fifo size is 4 MB, the
fs=
option needs only be present if you want to use a different fifo size.
If your system is loaded, you should run mkisofs in the real time class too.
To raise the priority of
mkisofs
replace the command
mkisofs -R /master/tree
by
priocntl -e -c RT -p 59 mkisofs -R /master/tree
on Solaris and by
nice --18 mkisofs -R /master/tree
on systems that don't have
UNIX International
compliant realtime scheduling.
Cdrecord runs at priority 59 on Solaris, you should run mkisofs
at no more than priority 58. On other systems, you should run mkisofs
at no less than nice --18.
Creating a CD-ROM without file system image on disk has been tested
on a Sparcstation-2 with a Yamaha CDR-400. It did work up to quad speed
when the machine was not loaded.
A faster machine may be able to handle quad speed also in the loaded case.
To record a pure CD-DA (audio) at single speed, with each track contained
in a file named
track01.cdaudio,
track02.cdaudio,
etc:
To record a mixed-mode CD with an ISO 9660 filesystem from
cdimage.raw
on the first track, the other tracks being audio tracks from the files
track01.cdaudio,
track02.cdaudio,
etc:
where
XXX
is replaced by the output of the previous run of mkisofs.
To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run
cdda2wav -v255 -D2,0 -B -Owav
and then run
dvdrecord -v dev=2,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav
ENVIRONMENT
CDR_DEVICE
This may either hold a device identifier that is suitable to the open
call of the SCSI transport library or a label in the file /etc/dvdrecord.conf.
CDR_SPEED
Sets the default speed value for writing (see also
-speed
option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
Sets the default size of the FIFO (see also
fs=#
option).
FILES
/etc/dvdrecord.conf
Default values can be set for the following options in /etc/dvdrecord.conf.
For example:
CDR_FIFOSIZE=8m
or
CDR_SPEED=2
CDR_DEVICE
This may either hold a device identifier that is suitable to the open
call of the SCSI transport library or a label in the file /etc/dvdrecord.conf
that allows to identify a specific drive on the system.
CDR_SPEED
Sets the default speed value for writing (see also
-speed
option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
Sets the default size of the FIFO (see also
fs=#
option).
Any other label
is an identifier for a specific drive on the system.
Such an identifier may not contain the characters ',', '/', '@' or ':'.
Each line that follows a label contains a TAB separated list of items.
Currently, three items are recognized: the SCSI ID of the drive, the
default speed that should be used for this drive and the default FIFO size
that should be used for this drive. The values for
speed
and
fifosize
may be set to -1 to tell dvdrecord to use the global defaults.
A typical line may look this way:
teac1= 0,5,048m
yamaha= 1,6,0-1-1
This tells
dvdrecord
that a drive named
teac1
is at scsibus 0, target 5, lun 0 and should be used with speed 4 and
a FIFO size of 8 MB.
A second drive may be found at scsibus 1, target 6, lun 0 and uses the
default speed and the default FIFO size.
On Solaris you need to stop the volume management if you like to use the USCSI
fallback SCSI transport code. Even things like
dvdrecord -scanbus
will not work if the volume management is running.
Disks made in
Track At Once
mode are not suitable as a master for direct mass production by CD manufacturers.
You will need the
disk at once
option to record such disks.
Nevertheless the disks made in
Track At Once
will normally be read in all CD players. Some old
audio CD players however may produce a two second click between two audio tracks.
The minimal size of a track is 4 seconds or 300 sectors. If you write
smaller tracks, the CD-Recorder will add dummy blocks. This is not an
error, even though the SCSI-error message looks this way.
Dvdrecord
has been tested on a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103, Firmware 1.55.
It is based on
Cdrecord
which has been tested on an upgraded Philips CDD-521 recorder at single and
double speed on a SparcStation 20/502 with no problems, slower computer systems
should work also.
The newer Philips/HP/Plasmon/Grundig
drives as well as Yamaha CDR-100 and CDR-102 work also. The Plasmon RF-4100
work, but has not tested in multi session.
A Philips CDD-521 that has not been upgraded will not work.
The Sony CDU-924 has been tested, but does not support XA-mode2 in hardware.
The sony therefore cannot create conforming multi session disks.
The Ricoh RO-1420C works, but some people seem to have problems to
use them with speed=2, try speed=0 in this case.
The Yamaha CDR-400 and all new SCSI-3/mmc conforming drives are supported
in single and multi-session.
You should run several tests in all supported speeds of your drive with the
-dummy
option turned on if you are using
dvdrecord
on an unknown system. Writing a CD is a realtime process.
NFS
will not always deliver constantly the needed data rates.
If you want to use
dvdrecord
with CD-images that are located on a
NFS
mounted filesystem, be sure that the fifo size is big enough.
I used
Dvdrecord
with with medium load on a SS20/502 and even at quad speed
on a Sparcstation-2 which was heavily loaded,
but it is recommended to leave the system
as lightly loaded as possible while writing a CD.
If you want to make sure that buffer underrungs are not
caused by your source disk, you may use the command
dvdrecord -dummy dev=2,0 padsize=600m /dev/null
to create a disk that is entirely made of dummy data.
Dvdrecord
needs to run as root to get access to the
/dev/scg?
device nodes and to be able to lock itself into memory.
If you don't want to allow users to become root on your system,
dvdrecord
may safely be installed suid root. This allows all users or a group of
users with no root privileges to use
dvdrecord.Dvdrecord
in this case checks, if the real user would have been able to read
the specified files.
To give all user access to use
dvdrecord,
enter:
chown root /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord
chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord
To give a restricted group of users access to dvdrecord enter:
chown root /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord
chgrp cdburners /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord
chmod 4710 /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord
and add a group
cdburners
on your system.
Never give write permissions for non root users to the
/dev/scg?
devices unless you would allow anybody to read/write/format
all your disks.
You should not connect old drives that do not support
disconnect/reconnect to either the SCSI bus that is connected to the
CD-Recorder or the source disk.
A Compact Disc can have no more than 99 tracks.
When creating a disc with both audio and data tracks,
the data should be on track 1 otherwise you should create
a CDplus disk which is a multi session disk with the first session
containing the audio tracks and the following session containing the data track.
Many operating systems are not able to read more than a single data track, or
need special software to do so.
More information on the SCSI command set of a HP CD-Recorder can be found at:
If you have more information or SCSI command manuals for currently
unsupported CD-Recorders please contact the author.
The Philips CDD 521 CD-Recorder (even in the upgraded version)
has several firmware bugs. Some of them will
force you to power cycle the device or to reboot the machine.
DIAGNOSTICS
You have 9 seconds to type ^C to abort
dvdrecord
after you see the message:
Starting to write CD at speed %d in %s mode for %s session.
A typical error message for a SCSI command looks like:
dvdrecord: I/O error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 00 20 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 25 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x25 Qual 0x00 (logical unit not supported) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
The first line gives information about the transport of the command.
The text after the first colon gives the error text for the system call
from the view of the kernel. It usually is:
I/O error
unless other problems happen. The next words contain a short description for
the SCSI command that fails. The rest of the line tells you if there were
any problems for the transport of the command over the SCSI bus.
fatal error
means that it was not possible to transport the command (i.e. no device present
at the requested SCSI address).
The second line prints the SCSI command descriptor block for the failed command.
The third line gives information on the SCSI status code returned by the
command, if the transport of the command succeeds.
This is error information from the SCSI device.
The fourth line is a hex dump of the auto request sense information for the
command.
The fifth line is the error text for the sense key if available, followed
by the segment number that is only valid if the command was a
copy
command. If the error message is not directly related to the current command,
the text
deferred error
is appended.
The sixth line is the error text for the sense code and the sense qualifier if available.
If the type of the device is known, the sense data is decoded from tables
in
scsierrs.c .
The text is followed by the error value for a field replaceable unit.
The seventh line prints the block number that is related to the failed command
and text for several error flags. The block number may not be valid.
The eight line reports the timeout set up for this command and the time
that the command realy needed to be finished.
The following message is not an error:
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 2048/2048 (1 sectors).
dvdrecord: I/O error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 80 00 00 27 0A 00 00 00 00 B5 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0xB5 Qual 0x00 (dummy data blocks added) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk -2147483609 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
It simply notifies, that a track that is smaller than the minimum size has been
expanded to 300 sectors.
BUGS
Dvdrecord
has even more options than
ls.
Dvdrecord
currently only warns if the input data will not fit on the disk.
If you don't abort the command you will get unpredictable results.
There should be an option to write index numbers for audio tracks.
There should be a recover option to make disks usable, that have been written
during a power failure.
For creating the experimental packet writing support,
the first implementation of CD-RW blanking support,
the first .wav file decoder
and many nice discussions on dvdrecord.
for providing the CAM port for FreeBSD together with Michael Smith (msmith@freebsd.org)
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