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 *********************************

NEW features of cdrtools-2.01:

All:

- Support for the ELF format in BSDi 4.x

- Allow floating point printing on OS/2. This has been possible

since 11/2001 but OS/2 has been forgotten.

- Correct OS/2 ranlib handling

- New architecture 9000-831-hp

- Include +DAportable in HP-UX cc options

- README.hpux enhanced to include hints on how to compile 64 bit

binaries.

- Support for NetBSD on PPC (macppc-netbsd-cc)

- portable getdomainname() replacement now supports to get the domainname

from /etc/resolv.conf. This allows usage even on OS/2

- Typo in DEFAULTS files fixed

- New generic target for symlinks

- New file rename.c for portability part of libschily

- Better Next STep support:

- Some workarounds for broken unistd.h

- -lkvm removed from Next Step config.

- waitdefs.h fixed for very old BSD based systems (~ 1980)

like Next STep

- strdup() moved into portability part of libschily

- fixed typo in fctldefs.h R_RDONLY -> O_RDONLY

- New file ttydefs.h includes portability phrases from ved and bsh.

- Added an autoconf test for buggy termios.h in Next Step.

Next STep provides fully functional termios.h but tcgetattt(), ...

is missing in libc.

- Test for clock_t changed to deal with a bug in Next STep.

Next Step illegally needs sys/time.h for clock_t

- Make recently introduced symlink install use relative symlinks instead

of absolute symlinks.

- Change autoconf/statdefs.h to support nanosecond support for SCO

UnixWare and FreeBSD

- Call conf/mkdep-sco.sh via sh to be independent from 'x' bit.

- libschily/rename.c fixed for SCO Openserver fo avoid warning

for redefinition of MAXPATHNAME

- libschily/usleep.c fixed to avoid SCO Openserver warning about

non matchin prototype in system include files

- Better Portability for SCO UnixWare

- New platforms i486, i586, Pentium III, Pentium Pro

- Let strdefs.h also include strings.h for strcasecmp()

- Support for missing struct sockaddr_storage

- Support for broken wait3() (returns wrong timings)

- Changed broken portability Prototype support in libfile

to use 'makefiles / prototype.h' based system

- Changed fileopen() and filereopen() to avoid fdopen()

provlems (does not accept mode string that does not

match fd flags)

- Catch the case where somebody tries to compile on Solaris with

/usr/ucb in PATH before /opt/SUNWspro/bin and when calling 'cc'

results in:

/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed

- Trying to make the source get accepted by 'cstyle'.

- Changes in the general topic 'Stack Scanning' and the software signal

system handlecond()/raisecond() that make the software signal system

now usable on all platforms.

- Trying to support DOS with the DJGPP compilation environment

Thanks to Alex Kopylov <[email protected]> for the first version

of the port and further helping.

Note that in order to compile cdrtools on DOS/DJGPP you need smake-1.2a20 or newer.

GNU make does not seem to work for a DOS compilation.

- New File README.msdos

- New RULES for DOS/DJGPP

- Make some vars in align_test.c static because Mac OS X creates unneeded

name space pollution.

- DJGPP has no SIGBUS, use #ifdef in avoffset.c and align_test.c

- Several changes with casting Null pointer constants to Null Pointers

if they are used as parameters in var arg lists (see below).

- New gethostname() fallback emulation using uname(2).

- Better rename(2) emulation for Platforms that don't have rename().

- niread()/niwrite()/nixread()/nixwrite() in libschily now resets errno

to the old value in case EINTR did occur.

- README.msdos has been corrected according to a hint from Alex Kopylov

- New macros to platform independently set up integers in little endian

format. This is needed to e.g. write PC disk labels from big endian

platforms.

- Rules extended to support volume management libs

- The install-sh script not takes care about UNIX variants like SCO UnixWare

and SCO OpenServer that allow to give away files via chown.

If this works and /tmp has the sticky bit set, the root test was unable

to remove the test files later. For this reason, now a subdirectory

in /tmp is used.

- Support for the special .PHONY: target ---> needs smake-1.2a21 or newer

This helps to deal with files like INSTALL operating systems

like Win32 and Mac OS that don't honor file name case and prevents

the file named INSTALL to get into trouble with 'make install'

- 'make install' now works on operating systems that require a '.exe'

suffix for executable binaries

- Updated the file README.ATAPI

Updated information for Linux, SCO-OpenServer, SCO-UnixWare, Win32

and DOS

- mconfig.h now supports make COPTX=-DNO_FORK & COPTX=-DNO_VFORK

- snprintf() from libschily now correctly follows POSIX.1-2001 for maxlength == 0

- Workaround for a bug in the C-compiler from SCO-OpenServer. It

is not very probable that this causes problems with cdrecord. The

function getfp() did not return the correct Frame Pointer when called

as first function in another function as the compiler sdoes set up the

new stack frame after getfp() has been called.

- New function filemopen(char *name, char *omode, mode_t mode) with additional

mode_t parameter.

- update recent getargs() version from repository. This has been forgotten.

- Add a workaround for a SCO OpenServer C-compiler bug.

The bug causes the first function in a function to be called

before the new stack frame has been established and did cause

scanning the stack frame to fail.

- Make snprintf() POSIX compliant.

- Many typos in the READMEs fixed, thanks to a hint from Stefano Allrath

- New global method to handle PATH environment delimiters (":" on

POSIX systems and ";" on DOS).

- New README.msdos reflecting new features of smake-1.2a23 on DOS/DJGPP

- Some minor enhancements to the makefilesystem

- Some minor changes for better compilation in SGI IRIX

- Trying to start adding support for Win32/Mingw32

- New global #define NEED_O_BINARY to make using setmode() easier

- New autoconf test for struct stat.st_fstype

- New autoconf test for fnmatch()

- New autoconf test for blksize_t/blkcnt_t

- libscgily/stdio/io.h renamed to schilyio.h to avoid conflicts with

DOS.

- Added a Note to README.linux:

NOTE for all Linux 2.5.x versions and all Linux versions before 2.6.8:

Linux did ship with defective kernel include files starting

with 2.5.x. These defective kernel include files did prevent

compilation. If you have problems compiling software and see

error messages related to include/scsi/scsi.h & include/scsi/sg.h

either upgrade to Linux-2.6.8 or newer or remove /usr/src/linux

- Support added to the makefile system that allows compilation on

AMD x86_64 using non automake aware make programs like GNU make.

Note that smake ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake/alpha/ is able to compile

things even on unknown platforms as it includes auto make features.

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

- Included a bug fix from the libparanoia Author.

Correctly allocate some arrays. Note: on 32 Bit machines, this patch does

not result in a different binary but the code is now really correct.

- New indentation is better conforming to 'cstyle'

- Fixed a bug in libparanoia that prevented the statistics to show up

the number of 'skips' (the number of exhausted read retries) when

SKIP verification has been turned off.

- modified to avoid GCCs shadowed variable warnings.

- Try to use page aligned transfer buffers if possible.

- Avoid buffer size problems wit non page aligned transfers on FreeBSD.

- Avoid freeing pointers that are not from malloc() by copying the data

to a second allocated chunk of free()able space. This has been a bug

introduced while trying to handle buffer size problems with non page aligned

transfers on FreeBSD.

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

Libscg:

- Reordered and restructured scsi-remote.c code to allow compilation on OS/2

and hopefully other OS like BeOS

- First attempt to support QNX.

Note that the sourcecode comes from QNX and it looks as if it

is buggy for commands that cause SCSI commands that result in

a Check Condition status. From looking at the source, the stack

gets overwritten in this case.

- SCSI adaptation layer for SCO UnixWare rewritten to support

multiple opens and to better follow the libscg interface standard.

- Second attempt to support QNX.

Make it compile

- Check kernel level error return codes on SCO-UnixWare

- Starting to support SCSI reset on SCO-UnixWare

- Extensions to libscg related include files to support DVD+RW formatting

- Make libscg work on SCO UnixWare if an application like cdrecord

has been installed suid root.

Before, the called administration programs did not work if euid!=uid

- Fixed a problem with possible garbage in the SCSI error string.

Thanks to Stefano Di Paola <[email protected]> for reporting.

- Fixed another printf buffer vulnerability in scsi-remote.c

- New version of scsi-amigaos.c from Thomas Langer

- Added a work around for a Solaris 9 x86 bug:

DKIOCINFO returns a max DMA size of 256 kB but only 68 kB will work.

Check max DMA size for a IDE disk to get a correct value....

For more information read the updated file README.solaris and the

new files README.solaris-x86-ata-DMA and README.solaris-x86-ATAPI-DMA

- Changed scsi-os2.c to allow 'cdrecord -scanbus' to find targets with

target ids > 7.

- Librscg now uses correct casting to a Null Pointer for execlp() as

NULL is a Null Pointer Constant but no Null Pointer. This could

make problems with some 64 bit architectures.

- New driver scsi-dos.c acting as 16 bit DOS ASPI interface

Thanks to Alex Kopylov <[email protected]> for the first version

of the driver.

Check his Web Page: http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm

it contains precompiled DOS binaries.

- The driver scsi-dos.c has already been verified with 'scgcheck'.

- scsi-os2.c and scsi-wnt.c now correctly return 0 from scg_send() if

the target is not valid.

- scsi-wnt.c does now support multiple SCSI opens.

- scsi-wnt.c does now correctly return SCG_NO_ERROR in case a SCSI command

returned CHECK CONDITION.

- scg__open() now prints a warning if it has not compiled with the results

from a certified autoconf environment.

- Introduced a fix to avoid the need for a #define ident prod_ident

for SCSI Inquiry data. This #define did cause problems with the

latest Sun Studio 8, C compilers

- First attempt to support running cdrecord while the volume management is

active.

- Increased version number to 0.8

- First attempt to work around the problems for suid programs introduced by

Sun with Solaris 9. Programs that like to issue a USCSI ioctl() need to be

root or get EPERM. Cdrecord did does up root privilleges eraly to avoid

security problems.

libscg now selectively runs the USCSI ioctl() as root if the program is installed

suid root.

- Fixed a bug in scsi-mac-iokit.c in scgo_havebus() that caused pxupgrade not

to work on MacOS X.

- First attempt to support the SPTI Ioctl interface on Windows NT.

see also http://www.ste-home.de/cdrtools-spti/

Thanks to Richard Stemmer, Jay A. Key and thomas podkanski

This allows to use cdrtools on NT without the need to install ASPI in case

you are administrator when yu run a program.

Please note that the use of SPTI is default. If you like to force using

ASPI, use dev=ASPI:b,t,l or dev=ASPI (in the -scanbus case).

If you like to force STPI, use dev=SPTI:b,t,l or dev=SPTI.

Currently, the interface does not yet fully matches the scg interface standard.

- Try to support the half hearted and badly designed /dev/hd* interface

from Linux-2.6 in a more usable way.

The only reason for adding this kind of support is that the Linux kernel

hackers reject to fix the known DMA bugs in the already existing SCSI

transport interfaces in the Linux kernel. Using /dev/hd* is unfortunately

the only way to get DMA with sector size being 2352, 2448 or similar.

Use cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA and

cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0

Note: The Bus mapping function inside the kernel for this interface is

a dummy. For this reason, we need to do the mapping ourselves.

Busnumber is ("/dev/hd*"[7] - 'a') / 2

Target is ("/dev/hd*"[7] - 'a') % 2

Also note that creating this interface in the Linux kernel was a waste of

time. It did need a lot of effort to be created. Instead of first adding

a new interface with a new broken DMA implementation and later fixing

the DMA bugs, it would have been better to just fix the DMA bugs

in ide-scsi.c

Adding SCSI transport to something like /dev/hd* on an OS that includes

a generic SCSI transport driver is disregarding SCSI protocol layering.

A clean way to implement ATAPI on Linux would be to rather introduce a

SCSI hostadaptor driver that sends the SCSI commands via the

ATA hardware.

Linux users should think about buying a CD writer for Linus Torvalds.

Maybe this could help to get better SCSI support in the Linux. Currently

Linus doesn't know anything about the CD-writing problems on Linux and

his contributions to CD-writing related issues in discussions are just

guesses that are not related to own experiences and understanding for

the matter :-(

It seems that the Linux way of dealing with bugs is to implement a new

incompatible interface instead of fixing the known bugs from

old interfaces :-(

- Allow cdrecord -scanbus dev=ASPI and cdrecord -scanbus dev=SPTI to work

on win32.

- Correct a bug in the Win32 version analyze function that is needed to

use the correct SPTI interface. Unfortunately, the interface did

change with a NT-4.0 service pack. It is unclear whether the currently

used interface type is correct for all possible NT-4.0 variants.

- For Win32, default to STPI only if on NT-5.x as there is a bug in some

UDMA implementations that causes blue screens.

- The Mac OS X SCSI low level transport now roughly meets the interface standard.

For this reason, the file scsi-mac-iokit.c now is marked with Author "schily"

- Indented according to the cstyle standard.

- For win32, dev=ASPI:1,0 and dev=SPTI:1,0 work again

- Trying to add a workaround for the Linux problem with USB where the

kernel issues a request sense even when there was only a DMA underrun

and the drive replies as expected with no-sense. Our problem in this

case is that we needed to ad another workaround because sometimes

Linux clears the status byte and we did assume a CHECK CONDITION in case

sense[0] was != 0.

- Enhanced max # of SCSI busses to 256 for the Linux sg driver.

This was needed because of the (compared to Solaris) suboptimal

way of dealing with instance numbers on Linuux.

While Solaris keeps a data base with instance numbers, disconnecting and

reconnecting a USB drive results in the USB device getting the same

SCSI address as before.

As Linux does not have such a data base, disconnecting/reconnecting

a USB device has the unfortunate side effect of assigning a new and

different SCSI address with every USB connect. This also creates problems

when software likes to manage access rights to devices for non-root

users.

- Win32 SPTI interface now also supports controllers with more than one

SCSI Bus. Thanks to Richard Stemmer

- Fixed a bug in the Win32 SPTI/ASPI interface introduced with 2.01a28

that caused core dumps because it did try to access data behind the end of the

sense data array in the ASPI cmd structure.

- Scan /dev/hda../dev/hdz instead of /dev/hda../dev/hdt for dev=ATAPI on Linux.

- Trying to write a better warning message for the dev=ATAPI: interface

on Linux (the related kernel interface is unmaintained and does

not support DMA at all).

- Fixed a bug in Win-NT Version string handling in scsi-wnt.c

Thanks to Alex Kopylov <[email protected]>

This caused that libscg did not properly recognize NT-4.x with service pack 4

to be equivalent to NT-5.0 (Win2k).

- Trying to avoid using the WinNT-SPTI interface for NT-4.0

- Fixed a security bug in scsi-remote.c (the RSCSI client).

Rscsi:

- Support for IPv6

- Workaround for missing struct sockaddr_storage on SCO UnixWare

- Security update. Forbid to write arbitrary debug files, only allow

a debug file name that has been configured in /etc/default/rscsi.

Writing arbitrary files with a siud root program could be used to become

root on a local machine if you are already logged into that local machine.

- README.rscsi typo's corrected.

Cdrecord:

- Use correct set_mode_params() return value in deflt_writemodes_mmc()

- Correct a debug printing to go to stderr instead of stdout.

- Workaround for broken Firmware for LG (Lucky Goldstar) drives.

These drives have been unable to write Audio in TAO mode because

they have an illegal audio pause length default.

Thanks to a hint from: Mark Vytlacil <[email protected]>

- Man page now correctly describes the data formats used with -xa1 & -xa2

- Use Prototypes for functions with enum parameter in fifo.c to avoid

warnings on SCO UnixWare

- Trying to catch SIGHUP to avoid hung recorders after people

close X windows by accident (This in most cases happens because

some newer GUIs try try copy bad ideas from Microsoft like the 'x'

button on the top bar in the window.

- Trying to print hints if the SCSI error core looks like a buffer

underrun occurred.

- First (still mostly empty) driver for the Matsushita CW-7501

- First TAO writing support for the Matsushita CW-7501

- New option -setdropts to allow cdrecord to set driver specific

parameters and exit.

- Added support to disable/enable the Plextor PowerRec feature.

Use driveropts=forcespeed

Be very careful as this will cause in badly readable disks.

The only senseful reason to use this feature is to run tests in

-dummy mode to check whether the system would be able to record

fast enough and to later buy High-Speed Media.

Note that documentation for the related SCSI command is not

oficially available and thus the information has been "guessed".

- Added support to enable/disable the Plextor SpeedRead feature.

Use driveropts=speedread

to allow the drive to read CDs faster than 40x.

Be very careful as this may cause the media to break in the drive

while reading, resulting in a destroyed media and drive!

Note that documentation for the related SCSI command is not

oficially available and thus the information has been "guessed".

- Added support to enable/disable the Plextor SingleSession feature.

Use driveropts=singlesession

This allows to read defective (illegal) media with extremely

non-standard additional TOC entries. You need to enable Single Session

mode before you insert the defective disk!

Note that documentation for the related SCSI command is not

oficially available and thus the information has been "guessed".

- Added support to enable/disable the Plextor Hide CD-R feature.

Use driveropts=hidecdr

This allows to make CD-Rs look like CD-ROMs and applications believe

that the media in the drive is not a CD-R.

Note that documentation for the related SCSI command is not

oficially available and thus the information has been "guessed".

- Added reading out "real" Burn-Proof counter for Plextor drives.

Note that documentation for the related SCSI command is not

oficially available and thus the information has been "guessed".

- Try to do a more correct job when doing Buffer Underrun estimation

counts.

- Make the explicit Buffer underrun error checking work for

Plextor drives too.

- Fixed the command line parser for driveropts= parameters.

Before the fix, driveropts=noburnfree,hidecdr would result

in assuming: driveropts=noburnfree,nohidecdr

- Now also supporting SAO/DAO write mode for the CW-7501

- New option -lock (similar to -load) that loads the media but leaves

the drive in locked status.

- New driver interface to allow SAO recording for the CW-7501

Simplified: "dummy" and "multi" Parameter information has been

moved into the track structure.

- Removed the internal implication that -packet is a TAO write mode.

Please test! It may be that this did introduce bugs.

- Try to avoid ANSI C arithmetic conformance change warnings from

SCO C-compiler by introducing proper casting.

- Driver interface restructured to support aborting SAO recording

with the Sony CDU-948

- "Driver flags" printing corrected

- Better behavior with CADDY drives and -load option

- Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord not to abort if Tracks with unknown

length are present in RAW write mode.

- Print extended Power Rec Speed information for Plextor drives.

- CUE Sheet handling generalized to allow to implement SAO writing

for more drives.

- Start supporting the Sony CDU-948 in SAO mode. Currently not yet working:

- Multi-session

- MCN/ISRC

- Grace time handling restructured. The grate time waiting is now done

even before the forced blanking and it is made sure that the waiting

is done only once.

- Several changes in the open source part are visible as a result of the

new DVD+RW / DVD+R support.

- cdrecord-ProDVD now includes first DVD+RW and DVD+R support.

Check ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

on Thursday 24.4.2002 for the first binaries

- Do not try to lower the possible number of open files in raise_fdlim()

anymore.

- Check return code of driver's init function.

- Better error messages from main write loop.

- Write a hint that a user may have used a "preformatted" CD-RW if

read_next_writable_address fails for the "invisible" track

and tell him to run cdrecord blank=....

- Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord to prevent a 3rd session on a

multi session disk. This bug was introduced with the driver

restructuring a few releases before.

- Better driver text strings for the driver IDs in the CD MMC drivers.

- Move Plextor PowerRec speed info completely to the statistics _past_

the recording activities.

- Allow more nonstandard Cue sheets to be accepted by the Sony CDU-924

and CDU-948.

- Implement MMC-3 DVD+ Drive/Media recognition to avoid that cdrecord starts

to treat a DVD+ as a CD-R because the DVD+ drive identifies as CD-R/RW + DVD-ROM

with "no DVD media installed" from a MMC-2 viewpoint.

- Added a note to the cdrecord man page how to use mkisofs

to allow cdrecord to knoe about track sizes in SAO or RAW mode.

- Fixed a multi session bug that has been introduced with the DVD+R/RW

restructuring with cdrecord-2.01a11. This bug caused cdrecord to be unable

to start a track from a sector number != 0 in TAO mode.

- Fixed a problem with cdrecord -msinfo introduced with the the DVD+R/RW

restructuring with cdrecord-2.01a11. The unwanted verbose printing has been

removed with this version.

- New option -xa to create CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 sectors with 2048 bytes

of user data

- New option -xamix to create mixed CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1/2 sectors

with 2332 bytes of user supplied data.

- Restructured sector types to make them usable:

-mode2 CD-ROM data mode 2 - 2336 bytes

-xa CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 - 2048 bytes

-xa1 CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 - 2056 bytes

-xa2 CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 2 - 2324 bytes

-xamix CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1/2 - 2332 bytes

To write conforming CD-ROM XA multisession disks use cdrecord -multi -xa1

together with mkisofs -XA -sectype xa1

- -cdi is now implemented how it should be: as a flat to change

the TOC type of a CD and not as a sector mode.

- Track parsing completely restructured to allow new features.

One of the features is to write audio CDs from a pipe,

other features will follow.

- Cdrecord now resets euid to the uid of the caller (if called suid root)

before it opens data files.

- Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord to insert two grace wait periods

if a disk was blanked and rewritten in one call.

- Allow cdrecord to copy audio CDs from a pipe from cdda2wav

without using an intermediate file on disk.

To copy an audio CD from a pipe (without intermediate

files), first run

cdda2wav dev=1,0 -vall cddb=0 -info-only

and then run

cdda2wav dev=1,0 -no-infofile -B -Oraw - | \

cdrecord dev=2,0 -v -dao -audio -useinfo -text *.inf

This will get all information (including track size info)

from the *.inf files and then read the audio data from

stdin.

If you like to write from stdin, make sure that cdrecord

is called with a large enough fifo size (e.g. fs=128m),

reduce the write speed to a value below the read speed of

the source drive (e.g. speed=12), and switch the burn-

free option for the recording drive on by adding

driveropts=burnfree.

- New option -abort allows you to send a write abort sequence to a drive.

This may help if other software did leave the drive in an unusable

condition.

- New 'xio' module allows to open a file virtually more than once to

support CDRWIN CUE sheets in cdrecord.

- Run Plextor Speedinfo SCSI command in silent mode as old Plextor drives

do not support this command.

- Workaround for a Plextor (Premium only???) firmware bug that may result

in a B0 pointer A5:A5:A5 instead of FF:FF:FF.

This made it impossible to blank a freshly written CD-RW witout reloading

the media. Now cdrecord does not check the disk size anymore if the number

of tracks to be written is 0.

- First CDRWIN CUE sheet support.

Cdrecord currently supports what is in the CUE sheet description in

the CDRWIN documentation (with a few exceptions). Note that the

examples in the rest of the CDRWIN man page are mostly illegal

if you compare them against the CDRWIN CUE sheet syntax documentation.

These exceptions are currently in effect:

- Only one FILE Line per CUE sheet file (This is compliant to the

CUE shet format documentation although the examples show CUE

files with more than one FILE line). NOTE that the CUE syntax has

been ill defined so that it would not make sense to e.g. use

more than one FILE line for audio CDs.

- The AIFF File type is not implemented (because I have no documentation

for this audio file format).

- The MP3 File type is not yet implemented.

- The CDG data type keyword will not yet work

- The CDI data type keyword will not yet work

- Only a sector size of 2048 will work with MODE1

- Sectors with sector size 2336 will not yet work

- POSTGAP will not yet work.

Note that the CDRWIN CUE documentation is bad and it is unclear how

formless (non XA) MODE 2 sectors should be made.

CDI is not a sector/track property but a disk property.

The File type BINARY vs. MOTOROLA is unclear.

To use the cue sheet feature call:

cdrecord dev=.... -v -dao cuefile=xx.cue

The main reason for implementing CUE sheet support was to allow to

write VCD/SVCD with cdrecord. It has currently tested with the

test SVCD from ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/examples/test_svcd/

Cdrecord should allow to write audio type CUE sheet based CDs also.

- Modified the notes close to the Copyright printing code in cdrecord.c

to make clear that this note is not a deviation from the GPL but just

a memorandum on how to understand the GPL.

- Fixed a bug in file descriptor handling that caused cdrecord not

to continue at offset xxx in the file after a new track did start.

- Added a forgotten feature in the CUE Sheet parser so it will now know that

WAVE files use swapped (intel) byte order.

- Restructured the main program of cdrecord so that cdrecord overall

behaves similar to before when cue sheets are used.

e.g. cdrecord -eject cuefile=xxx did only eject the disk instead of

first writing and then ejecting.

- Added some hints to the man page to make speed= handling clearer

- Fixed some typos in the man page

- Added the -format option to the man page

- CD-Text handling reworked:

CD-Text from textfile= or from CUE CDTEXTFILE wins over CD-Text

from *.inf files and over CUE SONGRITER.

- CD-Text from CUE file (either CDTEXTFILE or SONGRITER) now needs

-text in addition in order to be not ignored.

- Fixed a bug in the recognition for cdda2wav | cdrecord *.inf

that caused a message

WARNING: Stdin is connected to a terminal.

if not writing from a pipe.

- Small fix in auinfo.c to again allow compilation on K&R systems

- Typo fixes for the cdrecord man page

- The clone write code is now part of the GPL'd source

Note that this part of the code is now more than 2 years old but previously

has been excluded from the publically visible part of the source.

To understand how to use the clone mode read README.clone

- New option ts= to set the SCSI transfer buffer size

- Man page corrected to correctly mention current format for /etc/default/cdrecord

- call setmode(fileno, O_BINARY) for DOS/DJGPP also

- Better check if we use the FIFO to avoid core dumps with too small FIFO sizes.

- Switch off FIFO of fifo size is < 2 * SCSI transferbuffer

- Fixed a small bug in the man page (..sp instead of .sp). Thanks to Eric Raymond

for reporting!

- Work around for a problem in the Plextor 708 firmware (at least 1.01..1.02)

that caused cdrecord to be unable to recognize that a DVD medium is present instead

of a CD medium.

- Changed the GPL clarifications text in a way so Debian people still

agree with me that cdrecord is free software. The clarifications are

needed in order to tell people/companies (like Mr. Rosenkranzer,

RedHat & SuSE) who create broken branches from cdrecord that they are

not legally publishing their branches because they violate the

GPL § 2 Paragraph c) and GPL Preamble Section 6).

If would be better if the named persons/companies would rather stay

in contact to the Authors, discuss things and contribute to the

community instead of creating useless/broken changes and in case

of SuSE Linux even creating hacks that introduce security risks.

Note that now, RedHat Linux (enterprise server) or the SuSE Linux

are even more expensive than e.g. Solaris x86, see:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5416&page=5

Small Correction to this web page: Solaris x86 is free again for

personal use.

- Extended the man page to make it more clear that all CD/DVD-writers

ever made use only SCSI commands.

- Another change to the man page according to a hint from

Eric Raimond in order to get better compliance for troff -> "*ml"

converters.

- Allow people who cannot provide an e-mail address or who

don't like to support their modifications to modify cdrecord

- Some CUE sheet modifications in drv_mmc.c now made it into

the official SCCS history file.

- Several fixes to avoid the need for a #define ident prod_ident

for SCSI Inquiry data. This #define did cause problems with the

latest Sun Studio 8, C compilers

- Hack to work around a POSIX real time priotity design bug that

causes us to become root again on e.g. Linux in order to be able

to lower the priority of the FIFO background process.

- Better documentation and EXAMPLE for -setdropts driveropts=

in the man page.

- print a help message to direct the user to use -raw96r in case

the drive does not accept the cue sheet with -dao.

- Mark all drives that cannot be accessed because the volume management is

running and no media is in the drive with '?' instead of '*', so they

may be distinct from non existing drives.

Read README.volmgt for more information

- Now works again suid root on Solaris 9

- Fixed a bug introduced in 2.01alpha by a source consolidation.

cdrecord -toc did not work anymore for CD-ROM readers

- Updated README.audio

- Make the CUE Sheet handling search for a file name from a FILE statement

also in the directory where the CUE sheet is found (in case there is no

slash (/) in the file name from 'FILE').

- Avoid coredumps when cdrecord is called with -xd and there is no known

driver for the current drive.

- New option -tao is now needed if you like to write in TAO mode.

Cdrecord now does no longer writes if no write mode has been specified.

- New option -sao as alias for -dao. As the official name for the write mode

is SAO, -sao is more correct than -dao.

- Fixes for minor typos in cdrecord.1

- Fixed a bug with pad=xxx and pad sizes > 2 GB.

- Trying to fix a bug introduced lately with the check for specified

write mode options. As a result, only TAO mode writing did work.

- Better man page & online help for the ts= option.

- Fixed a typo in the man page.

- Better error messages when audio size is < 300 Sectors or needs padding.

Thanks to a hint from Stefano Allrath

- cdrecord -scanbus now checks for 256 SCSI busses

- cdrecord -scanbus now checks for 256 SCSI busses

This has already been announced for 2.01a28 but forgotten to include

- Some Man Page Fixes trying to avoid coding problems for non 7-bit ACSII

- Several typos in the man page fixed

- Man page enhanced to include a better documentation for the driver=

option.

- Several other enhancements to the man page

- modified to avoid GCCs shadowed variable warnings.

- Cdrecord now tolerates the OPC "error code" "Power calibration area almost full"

to not a real error.

- Fix for a bug that caused cdrecord to be unable

to reload the media for some drives.

The fix helps with the following problem:

Trying to clear drive status.

cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.

cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive!

cdrecord: Try to load media by hand.

cdrecord: Cannot load media.

- man page enhanced

- Print the "Make sure you are root" only if root privilleges are missing.

- Avoid warning for not working nice() on DOS

Thanks to Alex Kopylov <[email protected]>

- -clone option documented in the man page. This has been forgotten before.

- Several typos in the man page fixed

- Do not try to call nice() on DOS/DJGPP

- cdrecord now tries to check the DMA speed if the drive supports to read the

drive buffer. If the DMA speed is not sufficient, then cdrecord requires

that burnfree is activated. If the environment variable "CDR_FORCESPEED"

is set or -force has been specified, then cdrecord does not try to enforce

that the available DMA speed is 2x the expected write speed.

- Make some symbols static to avoid problem with a badly designed libc on

OpenBSD that violates POSIX by pulluting the namespace with symbols

like 'pl'.

Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt [email protected]):

- fixed typo in cdda2ogg.1

- Do not use uname() but gethostname() for portability.

- include unistd.h for abs()

- old Toshiba's usable again

- Multisession Non-CD-Extra disks now work again

Now also a lot more broken disks are readable again.

- not using ioctl in signalhandler any more

- trying to support sound on Win32

- Several changes (mostly OS/2 related) for more ask Heiko

- bugfix add cdda2ogg manpage,and script and makefile install target

- support BeOS shared memory and FIFO

- support soundcard output under QNX

- windows-users! Cygwin has fixed the bug introduced with 1.3.18. Please

upgrade to the new 1.5.3-1 release.

- call setmode(fileno, O_BINARY) for DOS/DJGPP also

- Now using the major() macro for some Linux duties.

WARNING to creators of Linux distributions:

It has _always_ been wrong to compile software only once for different

kernel versions (e.g. for compile Linux-2.4 and later install a

2.2 kernel on the so created system).

Now that Linux-2.6 introduces incompatible changes to kernel/user

interfaces, the resulting binaries will not work correctly anymore.

- Made CD-Text handling reentrant to overcome a problem triggered by XCDRoast

- Now works again suid root on Solaris 9

- Fix for a Bug that prevents paranoia statistics from being printed

because the paranoia statistics for the forked version has not been

inside the shared memory.