SYNOPSIS
cdrecord [ general options ] dev=device [ track options ]
track1...trackn
DESCRIPTION
Cdrecord is used to record data or audio Compact Discs on
an Orange Book CD-Recorder.
The device refers to scsibus/target/lun of the CD-
Recorder. Communication on SunOS is done with the SCSI
general driver scg. Other operating systems are using a
library simulation of this driver. Possible syntax is:
dev= scsibus,target,lun or dev= target,lun. In the latter
case, the CD-Recorder has to be connected to the default
SCSI bus of the machine. Scsibus, target and lun are
integer numbers. Some operating systems or SCSI transport
implementations may require to specify a filename in addi-
tion. In this case the correct syntax for the device is:
dev= devicename:scsibus,target,lun or dev= devicename:tar-
get,lun. If the name of the device node that has been
specified on such a system refers to exactly one SCSI
device, a shorthand in the form dev= devicename:@ or dev=
devicename:@,lun may be used instead of dev= device-
name:scsibus,target,lun.
To access remote SCSI devices, you need to prepend the
SCSI device name by a remote device indicator. The remote
device indicator is either REMOTE:user@host: or
REMOTE:host:
A valid remote SCSI device name may be: REMOTE:user@host:
to allow remote SCSI bus scanning or
REMOTE:user@host:1,0,0 to access the SCSI device at host
connected to SCSI bus # 1,target 0 lun 0.
To access SCSI devices via alternate transport layers, you
need to prepend the SCSI device name by a transport layer
indicator. The transport layer indicator may be something
like USCSI: or ATAPI:. To get a list of supported trans-
port layers for your platform, use dev= HELP:
To make cdrecord portable to all UNIX platforms, the syn-
tax dev= devicename:scsibus,target,lun is preferred as is
hides OS specific knowledge about device names from the
user. A specific OS must not necessarily support a way to
specify a real device file name nor a way to specify scsi-
bus,target,lun.
On SVr4 compliant systems, cdrecord uses the the real time
class to get the highest scheduling priority that is pos-
sible (higher than all kernel processes). On systems with
POSIX real time scheduling cdrecord uses real time
scheduling too, but may not be able to gain a priority
that is higher than all kernel processes.
In Track At Once mode, each track corresponds to a single
file that contains the prepared data for that track. If
the argument is `-', standard input is used for that
track. Only one track may be taken from stdin.
GENERAL OPTIONS
General options must be before any track file name or
track option.
-version
Print version information and exit.
-v Increment the level of general verbosity by one.
This is used e.g. to display the progress of the
writing process.
-V Increment the verbose level in respect of SCSI com-
mand transport by one. This helps to debug prob-
lems during the writing process, that occur in the
CD-Recorder. If you get incomprehensible error
messages you should use this flag to get more
detailed output. -VV will show data buffer content
in addition. Using -V or -VV slows down the pro-
cess and may be the reason for a buffer underrun.
debug=#, -d
Set the misc debug value to # (with debug=#) or
increment the misc debug level by one (with -d). If
you specify -dd, this equals to debug=2. This may
help to find problems while opening a driver for
libscg as well as with sector sizes and sector
types. Using -debug slows down the process and may
be the reason for a buffer underrun.
kdebug=#, kd=#
Tell the scg-driver to modify the kernel debug
value while SCSI commands are running.
-silent, -s
Do not print out a status report for failed SCSI
commands.
-force Force to continue on some errors. Be careful when
nect. These systems will freeze while blanking or
fixating a CD/DVD or while a DVD writer is filling
up a session to the minimum amount (approx. 800
MB). Setting the -immed flag will request the com-
mand to return immediately while the operation pro-
ceeds in background, making the bus usable for the
other devices and avoiding the system freeze. This
is an experimental feature which may work or not,
depending on the model of the CD/DVD writer. A
correct solution would be to set up a correct
cabling but there seem to be notebooks around that
have been set up the wrong way by the manufacturer.
As it is impossible to fix this problem in note-
books, the -immed option has been added.
A second experimental feature of the -immed flag is
to tell cdrecord to try to wait short times wile
writing to the media. This is expected to free the
IDE bus if the CD/DVD writer and the data source
are connected to the same IDE cable. In this case,
the CD/DVD writer would otherwise usually block the
IDE bus for nearly all the time making it impossi-
ble to fetch data from the source drive. See also
minbuf= and -v option.
Use both features at your own risk. It it turns
out that it would make sense to have a separate
option for the the wait feature, write to the
author and convince him.
minbuf=value
The # minbuf= options allows to define the minimum
drive buffer fill ratio for the experimental ATAPI
wait mode that is intended to free the IDE bus to
allow hard disk and CD/DVD writer to be on the same
IDE cable. As the wait mode currently only works
when the verbose option -v has been specified,
cdrecord implies the verbose option in case the
-immed or minbuf= option have been specified.
Valid values for minbuf= are between 25 and 95 for
25%...95% minimum drive buffer fill ratio.
-dummy The CD-Recorder will go through all steps of the
recording process, but the laser is turned off dur-
ing this procedure. It is recommended to run sev-
eral tests before actually writing to a Compact
Disk or Digital Versatile Disk, if the timing and
load response of the system is not known.
-dao Set SAO (Session At Once) mode which is usually
called Disk At Once mode. This currently only
works with MMC drives that support Session At Once
-raw96r or -raw16 mode, you should give it a try.
There are several CD writers with bad firmware that
result in broken disks when writing in TAO or SAO
mode. Writing data disks in raw mode needs signif-
icantly more CPU time than other write modes. If
your CPU is too slow, this may result in buffer
underruns.
-raw96p
Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors
plus 96 bytes of packed P-W subchannel data result-
ing in a sector size of 2448 bytes. This is the
less preferred raw writing mode as only a few
recorders support it and some of these recorders
have bugs in the firmware implementation. Don't
use this mode if your recorder supports -raw96r or
-raw16. Writing data disks in raw mode needs sig-
nificantly more CPU time than other write modes. If
your CPU is too slow, this may result in buffer
underruns.
-raw16 Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors
plus 6 bytes of P-Q subchannel data resulting in a
sector size of 2368 bytes. If a recorder does not
support -raw96r, this is the preferred raw writing
mode. It does not allow to write CD-Text or
CD+Graphics but it is the only raw writing mode in
cheap CD writers. As these cheap writers in most
cases do not support -dao mode. Don't use this
mode if your recorder supports -raw96r. Writing
data disks in raw mode needs significantly more CPU
time than other write modes. If your CPU is too
slow, this may result in buffer underruns.
-multi Allow multi session CD's to be made. This flag
needs to be present on all sessions of a multi ses-
sion disk, except you want to create a session that
will be the last session on the media. The fixa-
tion will be done in a way that allows the CD-
Recorder to append additional sessions later. This
is done by generation a TOC with a link to the next
program area. The so generated media is not 100%
compatible to manufactured CD's (except for
CDplus). Use only for recording of multi session
CD's. If this option is present, the default track
type is CD-ROM XA mode 2. The Sony drives have no
hardware support for CD-ROM XA mode 2. You have to
specify the -data option in order to create multi
session disks on these drives. As long as cdrecord
does not have a coder for converting data sectors
to audio sectors, you need to force CD-ROM sectors
by including the -data option if you like to record
of a CD. With this option, cdrecord will work with
CD-R drives and with CD-ROM drives.
-atip Retrieve and print out the ATIP (absolute Time in
Pregroove) info of a CD/DVD recordable or CD/DVD
rewritable media. With this option, cdrecord will
try to retrieve the ATIP info. If the actual drive
does not support to read the ATIP info, it may be
that only a reduced set of information records or
even nothing is displayed. Only a limited number of
MMC compliant drives support to read the ATIP info.
If cdrecord is able to retrieve the lead-in start
time for the first session, it will try to decode
and print the manufacturer info from the media.
DVD media dos not have atip information but there
is equivalent prerecorded information that is read
out and printed.
-fix The disk will only be fixated (i.e. a TOC for a CD-
Reader will be written). This may be used, if for
some reason the disk has been written but not fix-
ated. This option currently does not work with old
TEAC drives (CD-R50S and CD-R55S).
-nofix Do not fixate the disk after writing the tracks.
This may be used to create an audio disk in steps.
An un-fixated disk can usually not be used on a non
CD-writer type drive but there are audio CD players
that will be able to play such a disk.
-waiti Wait for input to become available on standard
input before trying to open the SCSI driver. This
allows cdrecord to read it's input from a pipe even
when writing additional sessions to a multi session
disk. When writing another session to a multi ses-
sion disk, mkisofs needs to read the old session
from the device before writing output. This cannot
be done if cdrecord opens the SCSI driver at the
same time.
-load Load the media and exit. This only works with a
tray loading mechanism but seems to be useful when
using the Kodak disk transporter.
-eject Eject disk after doing the work. Some Devices
(e.g. Philips) need to eject the medium before cre-
ating a new disk. Doing a -dummy test and immedi-
ately creating a real disk would not work on these
devices.
speed=#
Set the speed factor of the writing process to #.
# is an integer, representing a multiple of the
audio speed. This is about 150 KB/s for CD-ROM and
about 172 KB/s for CD-Audio. If no speed option is
present, cdrecord will try to get the speed value
from the CDR_SPEED environment. If your drive has
problems with speed=2 or speed=4, you should try
speed=0.
blank=type
Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW before
writing. The blanking type may be one of:
help Display a list of possible blanking
types.
all Blank the entire disk. This may take a
long time.
fast Minimally blank the disk. This results
in erasing the PMA, the TOC and the
pregap.
track Blank a track.
unreserve Unreserve a reserved track.
trtail Blank the tail of a track.
unclose Unclose last session.
session Blank the last session.
Not all drives support all blanking types. It may be nec-
essary to use blank=all if a drive reports a specified
command as being invalid. If used together with the
-force flag, this option may be used to blank CD-RW disks
that otherwise cannot be blanked. Note that you may need
to specify blank=all because some drives will not continue
with certain types of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that
cdecord does it's best if the -force flag is used but it
finally depends on the drive's firmware whether the blank-
ing operation will succeed or not.
fs=# Set the fifo (ring buffer) size to #. You may use
the same method as in dd(1), sdd(1) or star(1).
The number representing the size is taken in bytes
unless otherwise specified. If a number is fol-
lowed directly by the letter `b', `k', `m', `s' of
`f', the size is multiplied by 512, 1024,
1024*1024, 2048 or 2352. If the size consists of
numbers separated by `x' or `*', multiplication of
the two numbers is performed. Thus fs=10x63k will
specify a fifo size of 630 kBytes.
The size specified by the fs= argument includes the
shared memory that is needed for administration.
This is at least one page of memory. If no fs=
option is present, cdrecord will try to get the
fifo size value from the CDR_FIFOSIZE environment.
The default fifo size is currently 4 MB.
The fifo is used to increase buffering for the real
time writing process. It allows to run a pipe from
mkisofs directly into cdrecord. If the fifo is
active and a pipe from mkisofs into cdrecord is
used to create a CD, cdrecord will abort prior to
only MMU page table entries for 16 MBytes per pro-
cess. Using more than 14 MBytes for the fifo may
cause the operating system in this case to spend
much time to constantly reload the MMU tables.
Newer machines from Sun do not have this MMU hard-
ware problem. I have no information on PC-hardware
reflecting this problem.
If you have buffer underruns or similar problems
and observe a zero fifo empty count, you have hard-
ware problems. The fifo size in this case is suffi-
cient.
dev=target
Sets the SCSI target for the CD-Recorder, see notes
above. A typical device specification is dev=6,0 .
If a filename must be provided together with the
numerical target specification, the filename is
implementation specific. The correct filename in
this case can be found in the system specific manu-
als of the target operating system. On a FreeBSD
system without CAM support, you need to use the
control device (e.g. /dev/rcd0.ctl). A correct
device specification in this case may be
dev=/dev/rcd0.ctl:@ .
On Linux, drives connected to a parallel port
adapter are mapped to a virtual SCSI bus. Different
adapters are mapped to different targets on this
virtual SCSI bus.
If no dev option is present, cdrecord will try to
get the device from the CDR_DEVICE environment.
If the argument to the dev= option does not contain
the characters ',', '/', '@' or ':', it is inter-
preted as an label name that may be found in the
file /etc/default/cdrecord (see FILES section).
gracetime=#
Set the grace time before starting to write to #
seconds. Values below 2 seconds are not allowed.
timeout=#
Set the default SCSI command timeout value to #
seconds. The default SCSI command timeout is the
minimum timeout used for sending SCSI commands. If
a SCSI command fails due to a timeout, you may try
to raise the default SCSI command timeout above the
timeout value of the failed command. If the com-
mand runs correctly with a raised command timeout,
please report the better timeout value and the cor-
driver is that the -speed or -dummy will not work.
There are two special driver entries in the list:
cdr_simul and dvd_simul. These driver entries are
designed to make timing tests at any speed or tim-
ing tests for drives that do not support the -dummy
option. The simulation drivers implement a drive
with a buffer size of 1MB that can be changed via
the CDR_SIMUL_BUFSIZE environment variable. The
simulation driver correctly simulates even a buffer
underrun condition. If the -dummy option is pre-
sent, the simulation is not aborted in case of a
buffer underrun.
driveropts=option list
Set driver specific options. The options are speci-
fied 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.
varirec=value
Turn on the Plextor VariRec writing mode.
The mandatory parameter value is the laser
power offset and currently may be selected
from -2, -1, 0, 1, 2. In addition, you need
to set the write speed to 4 in order to
allow VariRec to work.
audiomaster
Turn on the Yahama Audio Master Q. R. fea-
ture which usually should result in high
quality CDs that have less reading problems
in HiFi players. As this is implemented as
a variant of the Session at Once write mode,
it will only work if you select SAO write
mode and there is no need to turn it off.
The Audio Master mode will work with a lim-
Yamaha) allow to force the drive to use the
selected speed even if the medium is so bad
that the write quality would be poor. This
option tells such a drive to force to use
the selected speed regardless of the medium
quality.
Use this option with extreme care and note
that the drive should know better which
medium will work at full speed. The default
is to turn forcespeed off, regardless of the
defaults of the drive.
noforcespeed
Turn off the force speed feature.
tattooinfo
Use this option together with -checkdrive to
retrieve the image size information for the
Yamaha DiskT@2 feature. The images always
have a line length of 3744 pixel. Line num-
ber 0 (radius 0) is mapped to the center of
the disk. If you know the inner and outer
radius you will be able to create a pre dis-
torted image that later may appear undis-
torted on the disk.
tattoofile=name
Use this option together with -checkdrive to
write an image prepared for the Yamaha
DiskT@2 feature to the medium. The file
must be a file with raw image B&W data (one
byte per pixel) in a size as retrieved by a
previous call to tattoofile=name . If the
size of the image equals the maximum possi-
ble size (3744 x 320 pixel), cdrecord will
use the first part of the file. This first
part then will be written to the leftover
space on the CD.
Note that the image must be mirrored to be
readable from the pick up side of the CD.
-checkdrive
Checks if a driver for the current drive is present
and exit. If the drive is a known drive, cdrecord
uses exit code 0.
-prcap Print the drive capabilities for SCSI-3/mmc compli-
ant drives as obtained from mode page 0x2A. Values
marked with kB use 1000 bytes as kilo-byte, values
marked with KB use 1024 bytes as Kilo-byte.
-overburn
Allow cdrecord to write more than the official size
of a medium. This feature is usually called over-
burning and depends on the fact that most blank
media may hold more space than the official size.
As the official size of the lead-out area on the
disk is 90 seconds (6750 sectors) and a disk usu-
ally works if there are at least 150 sectors of
lead out, all media may be overburned by at least
88 seconds (6600 sectors). Most CD recorders only
do overburning in SAO or RAW mode. Known exceptions
are TEAC CD-R50S, TEAC CD-R55S and the Panasonic
CW-7502. Some drives do now allow to overburn as
much as you might like and limit the size of a CD
to e.g. 76 minutes. This problem may be circum-
vented by writing the CD in RAW mode because this
way the drive has no chance to find the size before
starting to burn. There is no guarantee that your
drive supports overburning at all. Make a test to
check if your drive implements the feature.
-ignsize
Ignore the known size of the medium. This options
should be used with extreme care, it exists only
for debugging purposes don't use it for other rea-
sons. It is not needed to write disks with more
than the nominal capacity. This option implies
-overburn.
-useinfo
Use *.inf files to overwrite audio options. If
this option is used, the pregap size information is
read from the *.inf file that is associated with
the file that contains the audio data for a track.
defpregap=#
Set the default pre-gap size for all tracks except
track number 1. This option currently only makes
sense with the TEAC drive when creating track-at-
once disks without the 2 second silence before each
track.
This option may go away in future.
-packet
Set Packet writing mode. This is an experimental
interface.
pktsize=#
Set the packet size to #, forces fixed packet mode.
This is an experimental interface.
-noclose
files. If you like to write your own CD-Text infor-
mation, edit the *.inf files with a text editor and
change the field that are relevant for CD-Text.
textfile=filename
Write CD-Text based on information found in the
binary file filename. This file must contain
information in a data format defined in the SCSI-3
MMC-2 standard and in the Red Book. The four byte
size header that is defined in the SCSI standard is
optional and allows to make the recognition of cor-
rect data less ambiguous. This is the best option
to be used to copy CD-Text data from existing CDs
that already carry CD-Text information. To get data
in a format suitable for this option use cdrecord
-vv -toc to extract the information from disk.
TRACK OPTIONS
Track options may be mixed with track file names.
isrc=ISRC_number
Set the International Standard Recording Number for
the next track to ISRC_number.
index=list
Sets an index list for the next track. In index
list is a comma separated list of numbers that are
counting from index 1. The first entry in this list
must contain a 0, the following numbers must be an
ascending list of numbers (counting in 1/75 sec-
onds) that represent the start of the indices. An
index list in the form: 0,7500,15000 sets index 1
to the start of the track, index 2 100 seconds from
the start of the track and index 3 200 seconds from
the start of the track.
-audio If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are
written in CD-DA (similar to Red Book) audio for-
mat. The file with data for this tracks should
contain stereo, 16-bit digital audio with 44100
samples/s. The byte order should be the following:
MSB left, LSB left, MSB right, LSB right, MSB left
and so on. The track should be a multiple of 2352
bytes. It is not possible to put the master image
of an audio track on a raw disk because data will
be read in multiple of 2352 bytes during the
recording process.
If a filename ends in .au or .wav the file is con-
sidered to be a structured audio data file.
Cdrecord assumes that the file in this case is a
16-bit stereo samples in PCM coding at 44100 sam-
ples/second.
Using other structured audio data formats as input
to cdrecord will usually work if the structure of
the data is the structure described above (raw pcm
data in big-endian byte order). However, if the
data format includes a header, you will hear a
click at the start of a track.
If neither -data nor -audio have been specified,
cdrecord defaults to -audio for all filenames that
end in .au or .wav and to -data for all other
files.
-swab If this flag is present, audio data is assumed to
be in byte-swapped (little-endian) order. Some
types of CD-Writers e.g. Yamaha, Sony and the new
SCSI-3/mmc drives require audio data to be pre-
sented in little-endian order, while other writers
require audio data to be presented in the big-
endian (network) byte order normally used by the
SCSI protocol. Cdrecord knows if a CD-Recorder
needs audio data in big- or little-endian order,
and corrects the byte order of the data stream to
match the needs of the recorder. You only need the
-swab flag if your data stream is in Intel (little-
endian) byte order.
Note that the verbose output of cdrecord will show
you if swapping is necessary to make the byte order
of the input data fit the required byte order of
the recorder. Cdrecord will not show you if the
-swab flag was actually present for a track.
-data If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are
written in CD-ROM mode 1 (Yellow Book) format. The
data is a multiple of 2048 bytes. The file with
track data should contain an ISO-9660 or Rock Ridge
filesystem image (see mkisofs for more details). If
the track data is an ufs filesystem image, fragment
size should be set to 2 KB or more to allow CR-
drives with 2 KB sector size to to be used for
reading.
-data is the default, if no other flag is present.
If neither -data nor -audio have been specified,
cdrecord defaults to -audio for all filenames that
end in .au or .wav and to -data for all other
files.
2048 bytes.
-isosize
Use the ISO-9660 file system size as the size of
the next track. This option is needed if you want
cdrecord to directly read the image of a track from
a raw disk partition or from a TAO master CD. In
the first case the option -isosize is needed to
limit the size of the CD to the size of the ISO
filesystem. In the second case the option -isosize
is needed to prevent cdrecord from reading the two
run out blocks that are appended by each CD-
recorder in track at once mode. These two run out
blocks cannot be read and would cause a buffer
under run that would cause a defective copy. Do
not use this option on files created by mkisofs and
in case cdrecord reads the track data from stdin.
In the first case, you would prevent cdrecord from
writing the amount of padding that has been
appended by mkisofs and in the latter case, it will
not work because stdin is not seekable.
If -isosize is used for a track, cdrecord will
automatically add padding for this track as if the
-pad option has been used but the amount of padding
may be less than the padding written by mkisofs.
Note that if you use -isosize on a track that con-
tains Sparc boot information, the boot information
will be lost.
Note also that this option cannot be used to deter-
mine the size of a file system if the multi session
option is present.
-pad If the track is a data track, 15 sectors of zeroed
data will be added to the end of this and each sub-
sequent data track. In this case, the -pad option
is superseded by the padsize= option. It will
remain however as a shorthand for padsize=15s. If
the -pad option refers to an audio track, cdrecord
will pad the audio data to be a multiple of 2352
bytes. The audio data padding is done with binary
zeroes which is equal to absolute silence.
-pad remains valid until disabled by -nopad.
padsize=#
Set the amount of data to be appended as padding to
the next track to #. Opposed to the behavior of
the -pad option, the value for padsize= is reset to
zero for each new track. Cdrecord assumes a sector
size of 2048 bytes for the padsize= option, inde-
much overburning is possible with a specific media.
-nopad Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
-shorttrack
Allow all subsequent tracks to violate the Read
Book track length standard which requires a minimum
track length of 4 seconds. This option is only
useful when used in SAO or RAW mode. Not all
drives support this feature. The drive must be
accept the resulting CUE sheet or support RAW writ-
ing.
-noshorttrack
Re-enforce the Red Book track length standard.
Tracks must be at least 4 seconds.
pregap=#
Set the pre-gap size for the next track. This
option currently only makes sense with the TEAC
drive when creating track-at-once disks without the
2 second silence before each track.
This option may go away in future.
-preemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subse-
quent audio tracks will indicate that the audio
data has been sampled with 50/15 µsec preemphasis.
The data, however is not modified during the pro-
cess of transferring from file to disk. This
option has no effect on data tracks.
-nopreemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subse-
quent audio tracks will indicate that the audio
data has been mastered with linear data - this is
the default.
-copy If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subse-
quent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indi-
cate that the audio data has permission to be
copied without limit. This option has no effect on
data tracks.
-nocopy
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subse-
quent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indi-
cate that the audio data has permission to be
copied only once for personal use - this is the
default.
-scms If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subse-
the TEAC programming interface, even in Track at
Once mode, cdrecord needs to know the size of each
track before starting to write the disk. Cdrecord
now checks this and aborts before starting to
write. If this happens you will need to run
mkisofs -print-size before and use the output (with
`s' appended) as an argument to the tsize= option
of cdrecord (e.g. tsize=250000s).
See fs= option for possible arguments.
EXAMPLES
For all examples below, it will be assumed that the CD-
Recorder is connected to the primary SCSI bus of the
machine. The SCSI target id is set to 2.
To record a pure CD-ROM at double speed, using data from
the file cdimage.raw:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0 cdimage.raw
To create an image for a ISO 9660 filesystem with Rock
Ridge extensions:
mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw /home/joerg/master/tree
To check the resulting file before writing to CD on
Solaris:
mount -r -F fbk -o type=hsfs /dev/fbk0:cdimage.raw
/mnt
On Linux:
mount cdimage.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
Go on with:
ls -lR /mnt
umount /mnt
If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the
structure of the filesystem is not too complex, cdrecord
will run without creating an image of the ISO 9660
filesystem. Simply run the pipeline:
mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2
dev=2,0 -
The recommended minimum fifo size for running this
pipeline is 4 MBytes. As the default fifo size is 4 MB,
the fs= option needs only be present if you want to use a
different fifo size. If your system is loaded, you should
Cdrecord runs at priority 59 on Solaris, you should run
mkisofs at no more than priority 58. On other systems, you
should run mkisofs at no less than nice --18.
Creating a CD-ROM without file system image on disk has
been tested on a Sparcstation-2 with a Yamaha CDR-400. It
did work up to quad speed when the machine was not loaded.
A faster machine may be able to handle quad speed also in
the loaded case.
To record a pure CD-DA (audio) at single speed, with each
track contained in a file named track01.cdaudio,
track02.cdaudio, etc:
cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=2,0 -audio track*.cdaudio
To check if it will be ok to use double speed for the
example above. Use the dummy write option:
cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=2,0 -audio track*.cdau-
dio
To record a mixed-mode CD with an ISO 9660 filesystem from
cdimage.raw on the first track, the other tracks being
audio tracks from the files track01.cdaudio, track02.cdau-
dio, etc:
cdrecord -v -dummy dev=2,0 cdimage.raw -audio
track*.cdaudio
To handle drives that need to know the size of a track
before starting to write, first run
mkisofs -R -q -print-size /master/tree
and then run
mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord speed=2 dev=2,0
tsize=XXXs -
where XXX is replaced by the output of the previous run of
mkisofs.
To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run
cdda2wav -vall cddb=0 -D2,0 -B -Owav
and then run
cdrecord -v dev=2,0 -dao -useinfo -text *.wav
This will try copy track indices and to read CD-Text
-speed option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
Sets the default size of the FIFO (see also fs=#
option).
CDR_FORCERAWSPEED
If this environment variable is set, cdrecord will
allow you to write at the full RAW encoding speed a
single CPU supports. This will create high poten-
tial of buffer underruns. Use with care.
RSH If the RSH environment is present, the remote con-
nection will not be created via rcmd(3) but by
calling the program pointed to by RSH. Use e.g.
RSH=/usr/bin/ssh to create a secure shell connec-
tion.
Note that this forces cdrecord to create a pipe to
the rsh(1) program and disallows cdrecord to
directly access the network socket to the remote
server. This makes it impossible to set up perfor-
mance parameters and slows down the connection com-
pared to a root initiated rcmd(3) connection.
RSCSI If the RSCSI environment is present, the remote
SCSI server will not be the program
/opt/schily/sbin/rscsi but the program pointed to
by RSCSI. Note that the remote SCSI server program
name will be ignored if you log in using an account
that has been created with a remote SCSI server
program as login shell.
FILES
/etc/default/cdrecord
Default values can be set for the following options
in /etc/default/cdrecord. For example: CDR_FIFOS-
IZE=8m or CDR_SPEED=2
CDR_DEVICE
This may either hold a device identifier
that is suitable to the open call of the
SCSI transport library or a label in the
file /etc/default/cdrecord that allows to
identify a specific drive on the system.
CDR_SPEED
Sets the default speed value for writing
(see also -speed option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
values for speed and fifosize may be set to
-1 to tell cdrecord to use the global
defaults. A typical line may look this way:
teac1= 0,5,0 4 8m
yamaha= 1,6,0 -1 -1
This tells cdrecord that a drive named teac1
is at scsibus 0, target 5, lun 0 and should
be used with speed 4 and a FIFO size of 8
MB. A second drive may be found at scsibus
1, target 6, lun 0 and uses the default
speed and the default FIFO size.
SEE ALSO
cdda2wav(1), readcd(1), scg(7), fbk(7), mkisofs(8),
rcmd(3), ssh(1).
NOTES
On Solaris you need to stop the volume management if you
like to use the USCSI fallback SCSI transport code. Even
things like cdrecord -scanbus will not work if the volume
management is running.
Disks made in Track At Once mode are not suitable as a
master for direct mass production by CD manufacturers.
You will need the disk at once option to record such
disks. Nevertheless the disks made in Track At Once will
normally be read in all CD players. Some old audio CD
players however may produce a two second click between two
audio tracks.
The minimal size of a track is 4 seconds or 300 sectors.
If you write smaller tracks, the CD-Recorder will add
dummy blocks. This is not an error, even though the SCSI-
error message looks this way.
Cdrecord has been tested on an upgraded Philips CDD-521
recorder at single and double speed on a SparcStation
20/502 with no problems, slower computer systems should
work also. The newer Philips/HP/Plasmon/Grundig drives as
well as Yamaha CDR-100 and CDR-102 work also. The Plasmon
RF-4100 work, but has not tested in multi session. A
Philips CDD-521 that has not been upgraded will not work.
The Sony CDU-924 has been tested, but does not support XA-
mode2 in hardware. The sony therefore cannot create con-
forming multi session disks. The Ricoh RO-1420C works,
but some people seem to have problems to use them with
speed=2, try speed=0 in this case.
sible while writing a CD. If you want to make sure that
buffer underruns are not caused by your source disk, you
may use the command
cdrecord -dummy dev=2,0 padsize=600m /dev/null
to create a disk that is entirely made of dummy data.
Cdrecord needs to run as root to get access to the
/dev/scg? device nodes and to be able to lock itself into
memory.
If you don't want to allow users to become root on your
system, cdrecord may safely be installed suid root. This
allows all users or a group of users with no root privi-
leges to use cdrecord. Cdrecord in this case checks, if
the real user would have been able to read the specified
files. To give all user access to use cdrecord, enter:
chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
To give a restricted group of users access to cdrecord
enter:
chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chgrp cdburners /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
chmod 4710 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
and add a group cdburners on your system.
Never give write permissions for non root users to the
/dev/scg? devices unless you would allow anybody to
read/write/format all your disks.
You should not connect old drives that do not support dis-
connect/reconnect to either the SCSI bus that is connected
to the CD-Recorder or the source disk.
A Compact Disc can have no more than 99 tracks.
When creating a disc with both audio and data tracks, the
data should be on track 1 otherwise you should create a
CDplus disk which is a multi session disk with the first
session containing the audio tracks and the following ses-
sion containing the data track.
Many operating systems are not able to read more than a
single data track, or need special software to do so.
More information on the SCSI command set of a HP CD-
Recorder can be found at:
Unfortunately, the sg driver on Linux has several severe
bugs:
o It cannot see if a SCSI command could not be sent
at all.
o It cannot get the SCSI status byte. Cdrecord for
that reason cannot report failing SCSI commands in
some situations.
o It cannot get real DMA count of transfer. Cdrecord
cannot tell you if there is an DMA residual count.
o It cannot get number of bytes valid in auto sense
data. Cdrecord cannot tell you if device transfers
no sense data at all.
o It fetches to few data in auto request sense
(CCS/SCSI-2/SCSI-3 needs >= 18).
The fifo percent output is computed just after a block of
data has been written to the CD-Recorder. For this reason,
there will never be 100% fifo fill, while the fifo is in
streaming mode.
DIAGNOSTICS
You have 9 seconds to type ^C to abort cdrecord after you
see the message:
Starting to write CD at speed %d in %s mode for %s ses-
sion.
A typical error message for a SCSI command looks like:
cdrecord: I/O error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 00 20 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 25 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x25 Qual 0x00 (logical unit not supported) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
The first line gives information about the transport of
the command. The text after the first colon gives the
error text for the system call from the view of the ker-
nel. It usually is: I/O error unless other problems hap-
pen. The next words contain a short description for the
SCSI command that fails. The rest of the line tells you if
there were any problems for the transport of the command
over the SCSI bus. fatal error means that it was not pos-
available, followed by the segment number that is only
valid if the command was a copy command. If the error mes-
sage is not directly related to the current command, the
text deferred error is appended.
The sixth line is the error text for the sense code and
the sense qualifier if available. If the type of the
device is known, the sense data is decoded from tables in
scsierrs.c . The text is followed by the error value for
a field replaceable unit.
The seventh line prints the block number that is related
to the failed command and text for several error flags.
The block number may not be valid.
The eight line reports the timeout set up for this command
and the time that the command really needed to complete.
The following message is not an error:
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 2048/2048 (1 sectors).
cdrecord: I/O error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 80 00 00 27 0A 00 00 00 00 B5 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0xB5 Qual 0x00 (dummy data blocks added) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk -2147483609 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
It simply notifies, that a track that is smaller than the
minimum size has been expanded to 300 sectors.
BUGS
Cdrecord has even more options than ls.
There should be a recover option to make disks usable,
that have been written during a power failure.
CREDITS
Bill Swartz (Bill_Swartz@twolf.com)
For helping me with the TEAC driver support
Aaron Newsome (aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com)
For letting me develop Sony support on his
drive
Eric Youngdale (eric@andante.jic.com)
For supplying mkisofs
Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il)
For tips on the ATAPI standard
Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
For creating the first parallel port trans-
port implementation for Linux.
Kenneth D. Merry (ken@kdm.org)
for providing the CAM port for FreeBSD
together with Michael Smith
(msmith@freebsd.org)
Heiko Eißfeldt (heiko@hexco.de)
for making libedc_ecc available (needed to
write RAW data sectors).
MAILING LISTS
If you want to actively take part on the development of
cdrecord, you may join the developer mailing list via this
URL:
http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-develop-
ers
The mail address of the list is: cdwrite@other.debian.org
AUTHOR
Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany
Additional information can be found on:
http://www.fokus.fhg.de/usr/schilling/cdrecord.html
If you have support questions, send them to:
cdrecord-support@berlios.de
or cdwrite@other.debian.org
Of you have definitely found a bug, send a mail to:
cdrecord-developers@berlios.de
or schilling@fokus.fhg.de
To subscribe, use:
http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-develop-
ers
or http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cdrecord-sup-
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