Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

[Paul E Condon]

What else might be wrong? Googling reveals that my newer writer might be
"ATAPI". Is this important in this context? I found a few rants about ATAPI. I couldn't make out whether the author(s) thought it was good, but poorly supported by Linux, or bad in itself. How should the setups for these two drives differ (if at all) if one is "ATAPI" and the other is not?

Paul

David Purton wrote:

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:57:27AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:

I notice a slight difference in the messages from cdrecord when I
write using these: The newer, non-working writer messages contain an
extra message "BURN-Free is OFF" What does this mean and does it
have anything to do with the CDs being unuseable on any other
computers?

I wouldn't think so - from cdrecord man page:

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
implemented driver options are:

burnfree
Turn the support for Buffer Underrun Free writing on.
This only works for drives that support Buffer Underrun
Free technology. This may be called: Sanyo BURN-Proof,
Ricoh Just-Link, Yamaha Lossless-Link or similar.

The default is to turn BURN-Free off, regardless of the
defaults of the drive.

noburnfree
Turn the support for Buffer Underrun Free writing off.

cheers

dc

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