The millenium Logo contest. Win a free copy of cdrecord.

I am looking for a set of logos for cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav/readcd. All graphics will go to a web page. If you have an idea or a ready bitmap, send me mail: schilling@fokus.gmd.de
The best artwork will be used for cdrtools.

ESO the owner of the worlds largest supertelescope now uses cdrecord for CD-R and DVD-R creation

See the VLT archive project for additional information on DVD-R usage for scientific archives

Starting in autumn for real work, ESO will write 50 GB of data each day to DVD-R media. This will keep the DVD-R drive busy for more than 12 hours a day.

Read the online cdrecord-1.8.1 manpage Here is a list of changes in cdrecord-1.8.1 since cdrecord-1.8

Related projects to cdrecord: the CD building project for UNIX.

A list of CD Related Links

Read some FAQ's, How-to's and README's for cdrecord.

Read all man pages for cdrecord and other programs.

Here are the German translations of the man page and the README's for cdrecord.

The capacity list of most CD blank media from Jörg Schilling and Jürgen Stessun in Berlin/Germany.

If you need 80 minute blank disks in Berlin (preferred) or in Germany, contact nocom@snafu.de or http://www.snafu.de/~nocom

Supported Operating systems:

SunOS 4.x
SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x): read the Sun CD-ROM FAQ On Solaris 7 install patch 107465-02
SGI IRIX
HP-UX
Linux: read the most recent CD-Writing mini-HOWTO
If you have any problems with SCSI on Linux, read the Linux SCSI notes and some notes on enhancing the Linux 'sg' driver interface.
Linux & ATAPI CD-Recorder read this patch tips.
Linux & ParallelPort CD-Recorder read this about the actual status.
NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD read this tips for FreeBSD.
AIX to create a bootable CD for CHRP you need mkisofs from cdrecord-1.8a39 or later
BSD/OS 3.x (BSDI) -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.6.1
FreeBSD-current (CAM SCSI transport) -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.6.1
OSF-1 -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.6.1
NeXt Step -> Precompiled Binary available here Source available to the public in cdrecord-1.8a28 or later
Apple Rhapsody -> SCSI tranport source available to the public in cdrecord-1.8a28 or later
MacOS X -> Test a binary from this place Source available to the public in cdrecord-1.8a28 or later
BeOS -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.8a14
VMS -> Port ready but does not use the makefile system immediate access is here Also look at this location.
For a Win32 development environment look at: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
WNT -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.8a22, or test a binary from this place
W95 -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.8a22, or test a binary from this place
W98 -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.8a22, or test a binary from this place
NT-3.5 -> Make sure that you are using an ASPI layer that works for NT-3.5 and use the biary from this place
Operating systems with ports in alpha or beta:

SCO Openserver 5.x -> Port integrated in cdrecord-1.8a22, or get binary from skunkware as custom installable binary
SCO Unixware 2 / Unixware 7 -> Port on skunkware as custom installable binary
OS/2 -> Port under way a binary may be retrieved here
Ultrix -> Port lost due to a disk crash
QNX -> Port under way

Volunteers wanted for ports to:

DOS -> Developers wanted for DJGPP
DG-UX
The user land SCSI transport implementations on Linux and BSD (except FreeBSD/cam) are the worst ones.
Linux will not tell you all errors while BSD (except FreeBSD/cam) hides the device files from you.
SGI does not allow SCSI disconnects on odd byte count boundaries.
Look for my SCSI implementation ratings.

If you like to get the latest news on CD-Recording and wish to actively help developing the software you may join the CD-Recording mailing list by sending a mail to other-cdwrite-request@lists.debian.org and include the word subscribe in the body.

The CD Information Center

Have a look at Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ

Or his CD drive comparison list

To be able to recognise all CD-R drives correctly, I need the Inquiry data of all drives.
Please mail me your inquiry data to: schilling@fokus.gmd.de An Inquiry output looks like:

	Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
	Version        : 2
	Response Format: 2
	Capabilities   : 
	Vendor_info    : 'IMS     '
	Identifikation : 'CDD2000/00      '
	Revision       : '1.26'

and may be retrived by cdrecord dev=target,lun -inq, replace target and lun with the correct values.
Here is the Inquiry data that I already know.

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