NEW features of cdrtools-2.0:

Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de

BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even

when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.

Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service

that itself is implemented as Open Source project.

***************** Important news ****************************

For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM

***************** Please Test *********************************

All:

- Now using the "Slottable Source" feature of the makefile system.

This is the fist modular reusable portable makefile standard

in the open source world.

To see a new feature call: "make tinfo"

- config.sub now recognises "parisc-unknown-linux-gnu"

- Circumvent some problems with GCC-3.0 on Linux

- Removed printf() definitions from schily.h to avoid type clashes

- Support for SCO (Caldera) OpenUNIX (aka. UnixWare 8)

- Better support for Darwin-1.3 and 1.4

This is:

- enhanced makefile system

- type casts needed for unusual types used on Darwin

(e.g. sizeof() returns long!)

- Schily support includefiles rearranged to make portability even

easier.

- mconfig.h now defines IS_SCHILY to signal users of the

Schily makefilesystem, that the Schily portability environment

is being used.

- now includes the forgotten mkdep-sco.sh that helps to better

work around the SCO C-compiler.

- timedefs.h modified. Now the last schily portability support include

file hast been reworked to make portability even much easier.

- schily.h & standard.h have been modified to hopefully finally solve

all type clash problems with size_t & spawn*()

- Compile support for QNX Neutrino

- Now we hopefully have floating point support for _all_ platforms

even those without *cvt() and without __dtoa(). Thanks to a hint

from Thomas Langer <[email protected]> we now use strtod.c

to gert a fallback __dtoa()

- Added an autoconf test for rcmd() so cdrtools now should compile

again on BeOS and AmigaOS where no rcmd() is present.

- fixed fexec.c to make it compile ion QNX

- Now the complete libschily is included although it it not needed

for cdrtools. There are two reasons for doing this:

- Cdrtools is _the_ program that is heavily tested on

many different platforms, so I will get reports for

compile problems this way.

- cdrtools becomes a base docking platform for the SSPM

system this way. Now any of the Schily tools may be included

and compiled inside the base portability platform 'cdrtools'.

- New supported architctures:

s390-linux-cc.rul parisc-linux-cc.rul parisc64-linux-cc.rul

- Large File support for IRIX-6.2 (added autoconf test for -n32 cc option)

- Large File support for IRIX-6.5 now everything works correctly if the

OS supports Large Files by default in 32 bit mode (uses fseeko()/ftello()

if present. This could only be done by massively changing the autoconf code

stolen from GNUtar.

- Support for SGI IRIX platform ip17-irix

- Support for SGI IRIX-6.5

- Try to support recent BeOS (again)

- Workaround in libschily/comerr.c for the nonstandard

big negative errno values on BeOS

- libschily now includes floating point printf() for BeOS

- fileluopen.c from libschily now compiles on BeOS (without O_NDELAY)

- workaround for the nonstandard negative errno values on BeOS

- Schily makefile RULES for AmigaOS added

- getpagesize() emulation for BeOS to make cdda2wav compile on BeOS

- New rule allows automatic fallback to GCC if the configured

default compiler could not be found.

- statdefs.h enhanced

- Many corrections to give less warnings on SCO Openserver

- Support for NT-5.1 (WIN XP) added os-cygwin_nt-5.1.id

- VMS script build_all.com now includes astoll.c so compilation

on VMS should work again.

- New macros for max/min values of int*_t in utypes.h

- Limit the different handling of packed bitfields for AIX to AIX CC.

- Unfortunately fragementation of cdrecord has begun.

I noticed this fact recently when people started to ask me

senseless things which turned out to be a result of

a modified cdrtools source that I have not ben aware of.

One main goal of cdrtools is to provide a platform indepenant

user interface which cannot be achieved if people change important

parts os the user interface.

For this reason, I changed the license in hope that this will

help at least to keep the user interface the same on all

platforms and on all distributions.

Please keep in mind that fragmentation in many cases increases

my workload. There is no real reason for a modification,

and (even worse) the people who create modifications do not help

to keep my workload low in order to help me (and Heiko and James)

with the cdrtools project. People should rather contribute to

the project. Cdrtools should be free and actively mantained

in future. With increasing workload, I don't know how to do this.

- Add hints that compiling on unknown platforms wil only work if

"smake" is used.

- Autoconf code for Large file support now handles Linux system include

file bugs that prevented correct behavior on 64 Bit Linux systems.

- Better autoconf code for the problems with mlock() & HP-UX-10.20

- Better autocheck code for available C-compilers on HP-UX

Now even a fallback from GCC to CC works.

- Some changes to make compilation on 64 bit systems more correct

- Added support for GNU Hurd to the Schily Makefilesystem

- Cast pointerdiffs to int for printf() %.*s format and/or include

workarounds for 64 bit problems in this area.

- Several modifications to make OS/2 work again

(e.g. -lsocket added)

- fexec.c now uses a configurable PATH environment separator

to allow PATH lookup on OS/2

- A 20 year old extension has been removed from format.c

This caused printf() to interpret %X as %lX. This caused noticable

problems on IA-64. It should have created problems on True64

and on 64 bit Sparc programs too but was not directly visible

due to a different stack content.

- remove #elif to avoid a GCC-3.x warning

- config.sub now knows about IA64 architecture

- Makefilesystem now spports compiler specific optimization flags

- Align_test.c now creates a better include file (using more () to

make sure the compiler created correct code).

- Makefilesystem changed $(MAKE) to "$(MAKE)" to allow spaces

in pathnames

- Correct autoconf test for broken OS like MAC OS X that do not

allow local malloc() implementations due to linker bugs.

- Add autoconf test for strange clock_t definition method on Linux

- README.ATAPI enhanced for all platforms

- README.ATAPI now contains a hint on how to use ATAPI drives on HP-UX-11.x

- Support for FreeBSD on Ultrasparc added to the makefile system

- *roff'd man pages in .../doc dir re-created

- Try to work around a bug in OpenBSD.

OpenBSD defines EOF in ctype.h but POSIX only mentions an EOF definition

for stdio.h. If we include ctype.h bfore schily.h on OpenBSD while

stdio.h has not been included, this will fail.

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty [email protected]):

- The paranoia code from cdparanoia (written by Monty [email protected])

has been converted into a portable library.

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt [email protected]):

- Changed to allow compilation on K&R compilers too

- Speedup by 300%

The speedup is nearly processor independant.

Pentium-233 2443 sectors/s 32x

333Mhz-UltraSparc-IIi 6402 sectors/s 85x

900Mhz-UltraSparc-III+ 22813 sectors/s 304x

Athlon-1000 24378 sectors/s 325x

Athlon-1700 40168 sectors/s 535x

Depending on the speed of gettimeofday(), these numbers may be up to 5%

too low.

- Code is now put under GPL.

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Libscg:

- Trying to add a workaround for just another bug in the

sg driver in the Linux kernel. If a TIMEOUT occurs,

the error code does not indicate a TIMEOUT.

- Better scg_open() error messages when trying to do scanbus on Linux

and no /dev/sg* or /dev/pg* could be opened.

- Output Request Sense buffer with -debug when the USCSI interface is

used on Solaris.

- First attempt for support for the new IOKit SCSI interface on MaxOS X

Darwin-1.4 and newer with much much help from

Constantine Sapuntzakis <[email protected]>

Unfortunately there is not yet support for SCSI devices nor

is there support for standard Bus,Target,Lun device namings.

I hope that bot may be added in the future.

Volunteers who like to help with the libscg interface stuff

for Darwin-1.4 are welcome.

- Try to make scsi-beos.c compile on new BeOS version 5

- First attempt to integrate the AmigaOS SCSI transport interface code

from Thomas Langer <[email protected]>

- Massive modicifation of the support code for SCO OpenServer 5.x

As the kernel implementation contains several bugs,

the new code will by default not check for hard disks in scan mode.

The code checks the following environment variables:

"LIBSCG_SCAN_ALL" To force scanning for all SCSI targets.

"LIBSCG_SCSIUSERCMD" use old SCSIUSERCMD ioctl()

"LIBSCG_MAX_DMA" override MAX_DMA value, value must be number in kB

"LIBSCG_ENABLE_USB" enable access of USB devices

- Version -> 0.6

- Adding support for the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() from cdrom.c

Thanks to Alexander Kern <[email protected]> for the idea and first

code fragments for supporting the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() from

the cdrom.c kernel driver. Please note that this interface in principle

is completely unneeded but the Linux kernel is just a cluster of

code and does not support planned orthogonal interface systems.

For this reason we need CDROM_SEND_PACKET in order to work around a

bug in the linux kernel that prevents to use PCATA drives because

the kernel panics if you try to put ide-scsi on top of the PCATA

driver.

The code is currently in "status nascendi" but usable with some trade offs.

To use: call e.g.

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:

cdrecord -dao -v speed=24 dev=ATAPI:0,0 ....

Be careful! This code is only needed in order to be able to use

PCATA CD-writers on notebooks because there is a severe kernel bug.

Unfortunately, this bug causes the kernel to hang (and force you

to reboot) if you try to call:

cdrecord -scanbus

without the dev=ATAPI: option.

In this case cdrecord will hang infintely and unkillable

in open("/dev/sg1", 2) => you need to reboot :-(

Repeat by: Insert a PCATA CD-Writer in a Sony VAIO notebook and run

cdrecord -scanbus.

- Enhanced list of SCSI Error texts from SCSI standard from 29.5.2001

- New callback function to allow execption handling to be done after

the current SCSI command did finish.

- scsi-aix.c now uses UIntptr_t in alignement macro.

- Some 64 bit casts in the USCSI code from scsi-sun.c

For hints on the Linux Packet code in ide-cdrom.c read README.ATAPI

- Introduce a workaround for a conceptional Bug in the Linux kernel

SCSI implementation.

Linux is unable to distinct between a target selection timeut (e.g. switched

off target) and a command timeout (e.g. command needs more time than expected).

If the detected command time is < 1 second, libscg will now assume a dead target.

- Fix a bug with ATAPI in scsi-vms.c - now the SCSI status byte is OK

Thanks To Eberhard Heuser

- Allow up to 26 IDE controlers in scsi-vms.c - Thanks to Chip Dancy

- Do not open all /dev/scg* devices on Solaris if not in Scanbus mode

- Handle ENXIO in Solaris USCSI interface code as indicator for a

switched off device.

- Max DMA size for Linux ATAPI Packet interface code corrected.

Max DMA is 128k-1 and not 128k.

- Support for recently defined new SCSI target types found in SCSI

standard.

- New help system that lists all SCSI low level transports for a specific

platform together with their properties.

- Allow consistent usage of alternate SCSI transport layers.

Now the Solaris USCSI implementation and the (SuSE) Linux ATA implementation

behave similar and both allow dev=<Transport> as well as dev=<Transport>:

for -scanbus, e.g.

cdrecord dev=USCSI -scanbus

cdrecord dev=USCSI: -scanbus

cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus

cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus

all work the same way.

- Small change for Linux device initialization by request of Linus Torvalds

The purpose of this change is to support a new SCSI transport interface

for ATAPI in Linux that came up with the latest developer Linux kernels

(e.g. Linux-2.5.43). This interface allows to send SCSI commands directly

to ATAPI drives without using ide-scsi and sg, but it has several pitfalls.

While Linux allows to use DMA when using ide-scsi and sg if the

sector size is 2048 and the transfer buffer starts page aligned, the new

direct interface never uses DMA (acording to Linus Torvalds). So if you

write audio CDs or data CDs in RAW mode, there is no difference. If you

write data CDs in TAO or DAO mode, using ide-scsi and sg allows much

higher write speed. Note that this may change in future....

Notes for use:

- You need to specify something like dev=/dev/hdc

Note that this is unsupported by libscg.

- As long as there is no safe way for libscg to find out early that

this new interface is used, libscg may hang a bit on open.

This is caused by the fact that libscg is forced to read

from the open filedscriptor to clean up old Linux sg driver

interfaces. This was never a problem with /dev/sg*, but

when doing the same thing, this causes libscg to read content

from /dev/hd*

- There is (currently) no way for cdrecord to scan for ATAPI

devices when using this interface.

As long as this is true, you may want to prefer to use

cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus

and

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0 ...

instead.

- Fix scsi-unixware.c to allow multiple opens.

- Fixed several typo's.

- Avoid to read from the media (when using the new experimental

Linux ATAPI transport) while trying to clear old sg driver status.

- Woraround for Linux kernel design bug: CDROM_SEND_PACKET sets errno

to EINVAL in case SCSI sense key is "Invalid command".

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Rscsi:

- RSCSI now works if the target is a Win32 system.

This is not done by changing rscsi.c but by fixing a bug

in Cygwin!

The fix to Cygwin's rshd is posted in

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-05/msg00000.html

Thanks to egor duda <[email protected]>

NOTE that in a few weeks this patch will be integrated into Cygwin

and cdrecord/RSCSI will work out of the box on a recent Cygwin release.

- Now prints user ID & user Name into DEBUG file

- Now using signal safe read/write functions.

- Code now checks for HAVE_NETDB_H (added by request of

"Thomas" <[email protected]> to help with AmigaOS port)

This should indicate whether there is support for rcmd()

in the OS.

- Make it compile on BeOS

- changed because GNU Hurd has no MAXHOSTNAMELEN

- Return "PIPE" for hostname comparison if called from e.g. 'sshd'.

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Cdrecord:

- New option -overburn

This option has been added as many people seem to be unabe to understand

that they are going to write more than the official disk capacity from

reading cdrecord's output. Oveburnung now is no more done by default!

NOTE that there even are some drives that prevent you from writing

exactly the official size and stop several hundreds of sectors before.

- Do not print a warning for writing more than 90 minutes if the media is

a DVD

- Fix for a problem with setting high priority on Win32 systems.

Thanks to egor duda <[email protected]>

- Sony MMC drives now work in -multi session mode.

There was a bug in cdrecord that was accepted by all other drives.

The bug did cause a temporary bad setup to the drive.

- 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.

- 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.

- Fixed a bug in the option checking that prevented to write

data CD's at all.

Now only "RAW data" CD's are flagged as expected.

- Fixed a bug in the Firmware bug recognition system.

This bug did prevent cdrecord to work with Philips drives

when writing in RAW mode.

- New options -copy & -nocopy to allow to modify the 'copy' bit

in audio subchannel data.

- -scms option added to the man page and online help.

- New model to compute SCSI transfersizes

- -xa1 -xa2 sector typedefinitions changed.

- Debug messages while checking possible write modes of MMC

compliant made optional.

- RAW writing scatter sector function made more general

- New functions to convert between 2448 and 2368 byte sectors

NOTE: Read README.raw

- add a forgotten if (xdebug) in drv_mmc.c.

This caused a superfluous write mode debug message to be printed

- do installation of exit handlers (to reset SCSI state) earlier

- Cdrecord now does not exit with 0 anymore when interrupted with ^C

during the waittime before starting to write.

- First CD-Text support (can only copy CD-Text information from master

disk)

Writing of CD-Text is supported for all drives that support

CD-Text in SAO write mode and for all drives that support

to write in RAW/RAW96R mode (use -raw96r in this case).

NOTE: Read README.cdtext

- Circumvent a bug in the system include files from Linux that

makes printf() a macro and prevented compilation with GCC-3.0

- Added some #include <stdio.h> to substitute missing printf() definitions

- SAO/R16 mode removed from tests, it may never occur.

- Changed some .min defines in structs to .pmin to avoid K&R complier

problems

- better FIFO debug messages

- New driver config table for Taiyo Yuden EW-50.

This dive is like a Philips CDD-521 but has been reported to

swab audio data.

- rscsi client code now uses buffered read to speed up on Cygwin

- rscsi client code now uses signal safe read/write functions

- Cdrecod now does not open/close the tray anymore if the disk

is going to be erased.

- modify -version output if Clone writing support is present

- A new driver has been added that first checks the media if the drive

supports to write CD & DVD.

- Behaviour of the function that reads fs= tsize= and similar

corrected.

- Modified driver interface for better DVD support

- FIFO Code now checks for HAVE_FORK (added by request of

"Thomas" <[email protected]> to help with AmigaOS port)

- Better messages when trying to write more than the amount of data

that fits on a DVD.

- The DVD driver now reports a DVD media back to the high level code.

- correctly use the buffer capacity code from the driver instead

of the MMC-2 read buffer cap code directly

- Support for the unusual not ready error code of the CyberDrive CW038D

- CD-Text Code now also accepts Text File without 4 byte Size header

- CD-Text file read code now is able to do CRC error correction

Note that only songle bit errors per 18 byte pack.

- CD-text Autoring support:

CD-text may now be based on fields found in the *.inf files

created by cdda2wav.

To create a CD with CD-Text based on information from freedb.org

call:

1) cdda2wav -B -v255 -L

2) cdrecord {-dao!-raw96r} -v -useinfo -text *.wav

CD-text TODO:

- Check whether the *.inf files are all from the same CD

and clear some CD-text fields that are only valid if

they relate to one CD only.

- Add some more fields (mainly a dficiency of cdda2wav)

- Support multi language text

- Support character coding other than ISO-9959-1

CD-text may be based on fields found in the *.inf files

created by cdda2wav.

NOTE: Read README.cdtext

- better messages for CD manufacturer codes that are not in the

latest free Orange forum table.

- Default usage code is now only 6 lines so the error message

does no longer scroll out the screen. If yu like to get the old

long usage information, call cdrecord -help

- move 'dd' like number conversion stuff into getnum.c

- Allow the /etc/default/cdrecord parsing code to be used by

readcd too (as documented in the man page)

- First support for Plextor's VariRec feature in the PX-W4012

I am not sure about the final user interface.

For now, call e.g. cdrecord speed=4 driveropts=varirec=-1

for all audio CDs. Allowed varirec parameters are -2, -1, 0, 1, 2

VariRec only works at write speed 4.

- Print the actual current write speed in verbose mode.

- DVD-R code (undisclosed) now supports:

Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'

Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM LF-D310 '

Revision : 'A116'

- Support for SCMS from *.inf files

Note that you need to use cdda2wav/cdrecord that have fitting versions

because of this change. Otherwise cdrecord may add SCMS copy

protection.

- RAW mode now honors COPY bit and SCMS coding.

- Avoid coredump with "cdrecord textfile= non/existant ..."

- Corrected printf() formats for verbose printing to hold enough

space for media > 1 GB (DVD)

- Corrected printf() formats to make the write speed non-jumping.

- If called from a GUI, cdrecord now reads from "stderr" if

the CD-input-data is from "stdin".

If it turns out that stderr is not open for reading, cdrecord

waits to receive a SIGUSR1

- Better printouts for the DISC-ids covered by the orange forum embargo.

- DVD structure structure definition enhanced to reflect

current standard.

- new option gracetime=

- Try to abort DAO recording with a flush_buffer() if ^C is hit.

- Try to make cdrecord behave more polite for platforms (like Cygwin)

that don't support large files when the DVD data to be written

is read from stdin.

mkisofs ... | cdrecord ... -

will now work for DVDs on non large file OS

- Call flush buffer in silent mode to avoid error messages with

cdrecord -toc called on a CD-ROM drive.

- Avoid core dump is a single .inf file is missing and -text

option is used.

- Data structures modified to allow new features in the future.

- Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord to ignore escaped file type

args if they looked like a valid option (e.g.):

cdrecord dev=0,0 -dao -v -- speed=8

"speed=8" should be handled as if it was a filename but was

skipped.

- Print write mode when starting to write.

I hope that this helps me to understand incorrect "bug reports"

from lazy people who do not include their cdrecord command line.

- Printing ATIP information is now caused by a separate (internal) flag

and not ny a hack.

- Do not allow to write to ultra low speed RW media if the drive

is not able to write at 2x or 1x. This may be circumvented

with -force.

- Do not allow to write to high speed RW media if the drive is not

a high speed RW drive. This may be circumvented with -force.

- Data structures modified to allow new features in the future.

Trying to make driver interface simpler and cleaner. This resulted

in a major rewrite of the driver interface.

- please test if multi session with TEAC CDR-50/CDR-55

still works.

As a lot has been changed in the driver interface, please test

if bugs have been introduced!

- New test that prevents to write CD-RW media too slow

- Display of current DVD write speed now correct and no more based on

single speed CD but on single speed DVD.

- Moving SAO/RAW start code from cdrecord.c into drv_mmc.c

allows clean DVD-R/RW driver interface code.

Now cdrecord -dao will work correctly (as expected) even for DVDs

- speed= option no longer defaults to speed=1

Each driver now includes a default speed and a maximum speed.

If the maximum speed in the driver is wrong, use -force to overwrite.

Please send feedback if my assumptions on write speed are wrong:

- No drive using the Philips CDD-521 command set is faster

or slower than 2x

- No drive using the Yamaha CDR-100 driver is faster than 4x

No drive using the Yamaha CDR-100 driver is slower than 2x

- The Tayo Yuden CW-50 is 2x

- The Kodak PCD-600 is 6x

- Abort when the last track # of a multi session disk would be > 99

- Data structures modified to allow new features in the future.

- Better bessages for CD-RW where the speed ofthe media does not match

the properties of the writer.

- Avoid to reload media in -dummy RAW mode.

- Correctly abort if there was a problem when writing CD-Text in the LEAD-IN.

- Again: Data structures modified to allow new features in the future.

This release uses the new data structurec to allow to write ISRC/MCN

in RAW mode.

- Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord to write a wrong relative time

into the subchannel data when writing audio CDs in RAW mode.

This affected the pregap sectors if pregap size was != 0.

- Allow cdrecord to write ISRC & MCN even in RAW mode.

- Allow Simulation driver cdr_simul and dvd_simul to simulate any write

mode.

- Simulation driver cdr_simul and dvd_simul changed so no reload on the

real background drive occurs.

- Since last release , the new data structures allow to write

ISRC/MCN in RAW mode. This now makes RAW mode fully usable for

audio CDs. NOTE: if you find any problems with CDs written in SAO

mode, first try to write the same CD in RAW mode if your

drive supports to write in RAW mode. Tere are a lot of drives

that have rotten firmware and create broken CDs in DAO mode.

- Support for Yahama Audio Master Quality Recording.

This support is switched on via driveropts=audiomaster

I am sorry, but I had to do major changes in the MMC

driver in order to be able to support Audio Master.

This may have affected all other driveropts=

too. Please test and keep in mind that I like to have

the mext major release in a few weeks.

When audiomaster has been specified, BURN-Free recording

is disabled and - as the visible size of the medium

decreases - a second disk size check is done after

Audio Master has been turned on.

- man page enhanced according to new features

- Short Usage funtion now includes a hint on how to

obtain the list of possible driveropts= parameters

- Include the tags

"VARIREC ", "AUDIOMASTER ", "FORCESPEED "

In the "Driver flags" line that is visible with

cdrecord -checkdrive.

- cdrecord driveropts=help now includes

"varirec=" and "audiomaster"

- Support for writing data sectors in RAW mode has been added

to the GPL#ed version of cdrecord.

Note that writing data sectors in RAW mode is a highly CPU

intense task. For this reason, cdrecord first checks whether

it would be possible to do the requested job reliably.

If it is questionable whether the job could be done in the

desired speed, cdrecord aborts with a related message.

The max theoretical speed (not including the writing load)

is printed in a new line starting with: "Encoding speed :".

Cdrecord allows half of this speed.

- Allow RAW writing of data sectors to work correctly without

the need of specifying -data

- Allow spaces as delimiters between different tags in a single

line in the file /etc/default/cdrecord

- Support for Ricoh (and others) Just Link

This support is switched on via driveropts=burnfree

Note that Just Link is by default swichted on in the drive

but as Just Link may create CDs that are no 100% OK,

cdrecord now by default switches it off. Now you definitely

need to specify driveropts=burnfree to switch Just Link on

again.

If you call cdrecord dev=... -checkdrive you will see

the TAG "BURNFREE" as a hint that either Burn-Proof or

Just Link is supported.

- "Turning .... " messages for drive special functiions are

now printed to stdout

- Limited display (once every 1 MB) of the drives internal buffer

RAM fill ratio.

- Display the minimal drive buffer fill ratio a the end of the write

process.

- Display number of predicted drive buffer underruns based on the

fill ratio of the drive buffer (incremented if fill ratio is < 5%).

- Display average write speed at the end of the write process.

In dao mode, this includes the time needed to write the lead in and

thus is not 100& correct (value is too low).

- Display of the number of times the Buffer underrun protection

has been active for drives where the manufacturer send me the needed

information (Ricoh, Yamaha, Aopen). It may work for other drives too

but there is no guarantee.

- Fixed a bug in the driveropts= parsing routine.

- New driveropts= option "forcespeed". Use with extreme care as this

will force several drives ((Ricoh, Yamaha, Aopen, ...) to write with

the selected high speed although the mediaum is too bad for this

operation.

- New driveropts= option "tattooinfo". Use together with -checkrive

to retrieve the information about the picture size that will fit.

The result will be someting like:

DiskT@2 inner r: 265

DiskT@2 outer r: 583

DiskT@2 image size: 3744 x 318 pixel.

- New driveropts= option "tattoofile=". Use together with -checkrive

to write an image of the right size to disk.

Read README.DiskT@2

- Rearrange the order of the new statistics printing

- Allow several of the new statistics to be printed even if cdrecord

aborts due to an error.

- Let the old Philips drive use the common CD media 'reload' function.

- Try to find out if a drive is MMC, MMC-2 or MMC-3 compliant.

- see cdrecord -checkdrive

- Suppress printing oof the average write speed if the size of the

tracks is not known prior to start CD writing

- ATIP printing (cdrecord -atip) enhanced to support Ultra high speed

CD-RW media.

- Check whether somebody likes to write a Ultra high speed CD-RW on

an improper writer

- Print MMC conformance level of the drive based on content of

SCSI mode page 2A.

- Print more information for MMC-2 & MMC-3 drives with cdrecord -prcap

- The new true CAV Plexwriter 482448 is now supported.

Please note that it is not easy to write at 48x. You definitely need

a correct DMA setup to optimal values.

Also note switching on Burn-Proof will reduce the max speed to 40x

so it may be that you don't need Burn-Proof if you simply reduce speed

to 40x manually

- make sure that using both -copy and -useinfo will not result in unclear state

Instead the content of the *.inf files will be used

- Simulation driver (cdr_simul / dvd_simul) now uses correct speed ratio

for DVDs

- Simulation driver now supports fake "Next writable address" function.

- On Linux usleep() is very unacurate, meter the real sleep time

and cumulate a correction value. This allows the simulation driver

to simulate the correct write speed.

- Added a note to Heiko Eißfeldt's libedc when printing RAW encoding speed

- Limit gracetime to 999 seconds and make output correct even for

times > 9 seconds.

- Corrected a bug in the MMC driver that caused cdrecord to use the

wrong place for current speed when doing MMC/MMC-3 dependant stuff

- cdrecord -prcap will now use the same format for MMC & MMC-3 drives

rsulting in a better readability.

- Don't print write time statistics if writing did not yet start

- Try to handle drives that don't support to write at speed 1 but

will fail if you try to call cdrecord speed=1 ...

- New option -immed tells cdrecord to set the SCSI "IMMED" flag in certain

commands.

This option is not needed if your PC has been configured correctly.

However, ATAPI drives usually cannnot do disconnect/reconnect.

As a result, the PC may hang with long lasting commands if the CD-writer

has been connected to the same IDE cable as the harddisk. A correct

solution would be to set up a correct cabling but there seem to be