This is the last result of the logo contest. All current logos are on this page

Firmware upgrade for CD-Recorders on UNIX systems.

BerliOS is now hosting the German FreeDB (cddb) mirror on de.freedb.org and freedb.berlios.de

Cdrecord on Freshmeat

Cdrecord mirror on .

If you have problems, always first check the latest alpha version before you report a bug.

Cdrecord-1.9 final is out and supports (including cdda2wav and mkisofs/mkhybrid in source tree).

The previous version:cdrecord-1.8.1.

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

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

Read the online cdrecord-1.9 manpage Here is a list of changes in cdrecord-1.9 since cdrecord-1.8.1

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.

Supported Operating systems:

Using ATAPI CD-Recorder read this tips.

SunOS 4.x

SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x): read the Sun CD-ROM FAQ On Solaris 7 FCS install patch 107465-02

SGI IRIX

HP-UX

Linux: read the most recent CD-Writing 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 & 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.

The CD Information Center

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

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.

Please help collecting the HW/SW matrix and add your system to this list

Download cdrecord-1.9:

Supported drives with cdrecord-1.10:

Unsupported drives with cdrecord-1.9

The Yamaha CDR-400, the CDRW-4260, the CDRW-4416 and the Plexwriter PX-R412, the Plexwriter 820 the Plexwriter RW-4/2/20, the Plexwriter RW-8/2/20 and the Plexwtiter RW-12/4/32 are the only CD-R drives I know of, that have a jumper to set the sector size to 512 bytes.
NOTICE: it seems that all Plextor and all Yamaha CD-R and CD-RW drives support switching to 512 bytes/sector.
This should allow to use the drive as a boot drive and general purpose drive for SunOS and Solaris too.

Drives that may get support if I have the time:

Panasonic CW-7501

Ricoh 1060C (if I manage to print the manual with japanese characters)

JVC, Pinncale Micro (if I get support from the companies)

To be able to give continuous support for all recorders I need continuous access to drives from all brands and all models. I would be happy to see industrial sponsors supplying me with the needed drives.

I currently own the CD-Recorders from the hardware list below. If you would like to supply me with one please contact me at schilling@fokus.gmd.de

Thanks to the following companies for supplying me with needed materials.

Hardware (the hardware in this section is supported):

Sanyo donated Sanyo CRD-Bp2 (BURN-Proof) for ever

Plextor donated Plextor PX-W121032A (BURN-Proof) for ever

New Hardware (not yet or not yet fully supported):

Documentation:

Still under construction

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If you have problems please include the operating system and the hardware architecture in each mail. I am getting dozens of mails each day and cannot remember your last mail.

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