Re: [Bashburn-info] Copy Data CD to CD Issues

[Nick W. <ni...@li...>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:41:41 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:


> =>No, I didn't analyse it at all.
> =>
> =>1) Copy Data CD (CD to CD)
> =>
> =>is where this issue is.  I haven't looked at code at due to testing
> all =>the other stuff.
> 
> I just looked at the code and it looks funny (not ha ha funny). What
> we're basically doing, I think, is this:
> 
> mkisofs | cdrecord 
> 
> which is probably ok. But what's coded is this:
> 
> mkisofs -o fn.iso | cdrecord fn.iso
> 
> If cdrecord gets a filename arg on the commandline then it's not
> going to read from its pipe. Same for mkisofs:
> 
>       -o filename
>               is  the  name  of the file to which the iso9660
> filesystem image should be written.  This can be a disk file, a tape
> drive, or it can  correspond  directly to the device name of the
> optical disc writer.  If not specified, stdout is used.  Note that
> the output can  also be a block special device for a regular disk
> drive, in which case the disk partition can be  mounted  and
> examined  to ensure that the premastering was done correctly.
> 
> The last person to put his dirty mitss on this module before I hacked
> on it was (drum roll please) Anders on rev 388. Anders, can you look
> at this one? What we currently have is this
> 
>         mkfifo BBCDCOPY
>         ${BB_READCD} ${BB_READ_OPTS} -o ${BBBURNDIR}/BashBurn.iso  \
>                 ${BBCDMNT} | ${BB_CDBURNCMD} dev=${BBCDWRITER}
> ${BBDTAO} \ -v -data -eject ${BBBURNDIR}/BashBurn.iso
>         echo $bb_dm_ch2_5
>         rm ${BBBURNDIR}/BashBurn.iso
> 
> and I think it should be this
> 
>         ${BB_READCD} ${BB_READ_OPTS}  \
>                 ${BBCDMNT} | ${BB_CDBURNCMD} dev=${BBCDWRITER}
> ${BBDTAO} \ -v -data -eject
>         echo $bb_dm_ch2_5
> 
> Also note that the mkfifo and the rm should be removed.

OK, this isn't what I was talking about.

This is what needs to happen.

Test there is a data disc mounted/there is data in the mount point
(otherwise it carries on and tries to burn nothing).

After the data has been burnt to disc, umount the disc before asking
user to insert a blank CD.

Nick
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