From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 22:55:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABBB16A41F for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:55:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288F343D45 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:55:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8224184F81; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:25:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:25:12 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050730225512.GM75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050730055013.GA57362@localhost.local> <20050730062425.GK75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <42EBC3F1.5040501@pkix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5V5c01chtBAiSHoy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42EBC3F1.5040501@pkix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: cdelsey@qwest.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:55:15 -0000 --5V5c01chtBAiSHoy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 30 July 2005 at 14:16:17 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: >>> I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept >>> seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. >>> >>> I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs >>> tries to perform an operation on a file handle it has already >>> closed. >>> >>> I've implemented a workaround already. The problem is, that by my >>> reckoning, this should affect anybody who is trying to use a DVD-RAM >>> (not DVD+RW) with FreeBSD, but I haven't found any references to the >>> problem on the net. >> >> My guess is that DVD-RAM isn't popular enough, and that people who >> have had problems with it haven't had the understanding to track the >> bug down. > > dvd+rw-tools doesn't support -RAM as well as other formats, in part because > the {+,-}R(W) formats are much more common, in part because there are some > pretty serious quirks in the older drives, but improvements would be > welcome. Carl's report and patch suggest that the biggest reason that dvd+rw-tools doesn't support -RAM is due a bug in the program, not in the drives. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --5V5c01chtBAiSHoy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC7AVQIubykFB6QiMRAvDJAJ9QhimIbKhtH33XaiQvdzm1t20xSACfS77k cTTBQ2O67vksWaVH8ASWF3M= =8Sza -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5V5c01chtBAiSHoy--