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.
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