Re: [linuxdc-dev] CD burning problems (bad drive?)

[John W. <lin...@ho...>]

I have had success in burning this, but I used the script from the README on 
marcus' site.  That script was much smaller; two lines, than what you have 
here.


>From: ac...@ac... (Andrew Church)
>To: lin...@li...
>Subject: [linuxdc-dev] CD burning problems (bad drive?)
>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:35:37 JST
>
>      I've been trying to burn the serialslave (from Marcus' site) onto
>CD, but my Dreamcast is refusing to boot it.  The script I'm using is
>below; is there anything wrong with it or do I need to look for a
>different CD writer?  Incidentally, I've tried specifying padsize=0 or
>not for cdrecord, specifying -C or not for mkisofs, running "cdrecord
>-msinfo" or giving the value (known from previous writes) directly,
>and taking the disc out or not between writes, but nothing seems to
>work; the Dreamcast goes to the audio CD screen (2 tracks, 2:42) if I
>boot with the cover closed, and if I try "play" from the menu it just
>resets.
>
>      System info:
>	- OS: Linux (2.2.16)
>	- CD writer: Smart and Friendly CD-R4012 (SCSI drive; the
>	             cdrecord README says it's supported, and it works
>	             fine for ordinary audio/data writing)
>	- cdrecord: version 1.9
>
>Script:
>-------------------------------------
>#!/bin/sh
>
>tmpdir=/tmp/makedisc
>dir=`echo "$1" | sed 's/\/$//'`
>if [ "$2" ] ; then
>	ipbin="$2"
>	exclude=""
>else
>	ipbin="$dir/IP.BIN"
>	exclude="-x $ipbin"
>fi
>
>if [ $# -lt 1 -o ! -f "$ipbin" ] ; then
>	echo >&2 "Usage: $0 <fs-dir> [IP.BIN-path]"
>	echo >&2 "If IP.BIN-path is not specified, it must be in <fs-dir>."
>	exit 1
>fi
>
>rm -rf $tmpdir
>mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1
>dd </dev/zero bs=2352 count=300 >$tmpdir/audio.raw
>cdrecord -multi -audio $tmpdir/audio.raw
>rm -f $tmpdir/audio.raw
>
>msinfo=`cdrecord -msinfo`
>if [ ! "$msinfo" ] ; then
>	echo >&2 'cdrecord -msinfo failed!  Aborting.'
>	exit 1
>fi
>mkisofs -l -C $msinfo -o $tmpdir/disc.iso $exclude $1
>dd if="$ipbin" bs=2048 count=16 of=$tmpdir/disc.iso conv=notrunc
>cdrecord -multi -xa1 $tmpdir/disc.iso
>
>rm -rf $tmpdir
>-------------------------------------
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     ac...@ac... | New address - please note.
>     http://achurch.org/ | ƒ[ƒ‹ƒAƒhƒŒƒX‚ª•Ï‚í‚è‚Ü‚µ‚½B
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