# @(#)README	1.21 00/05/28 Copyright 1996 J. Schilling

This is Version 1.8.1 of cdrecord

Cdrecord allows you to create CD's on a CD-Recorder.
Cdrecord runs on:

SunOS 4.1.3 or later:	sparc.
Solaris 2.3 or later:	sparc and x86.
Linux:			x86 sparc sparc64 ppc strongarm and alpha.
NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD:	x86 sparc alpha amiga and m68k
SGI IRIX:		mips
HP-UX:			hppa
AIX:			rs6000
OSF1:			alpha
BSD/OS (BSDi):		x86
SCO Openserver 5.x:	x86
SCO Unixware 2.x:	x86
SCO Unixware 7.x:	x86
NeXt Step:		mc68xxx x86 and hppa
Apple Rhapsody:		ppc, x86
Apple MacOS X:		ppc
OS/2:			x86
VMS:			*VAX
BeOS:			x86
Win95:			x86
Win98:			x86
WinNT:			x86
QNX:			x86 (coming soon)


To learn how to compile and install cdrecord, read README.compile

For multi session please read README.multi

Cdrecord runs without problems on a loaded Solaris system.
On Solaris, cdrecord uses the SVr4 priocntl() call to establish
SVr4 real-time scheduling which grants to run cdrecord in a higher priority
than all kernel processes. On system that provide POSIX real-time scheduling
the result may be slightly worse as POSIX RT doesn't seem to grant latter
real time behaviour.

The cdrecord distribution contains a SCSI user level transport library.
The SCSI library is suitable to talk to any SCSI device without having
a special driver for it.
Cdrecord may be easily ported to any system that has a 
SCSI device driver similar to the scg driver.

On Linux cdrecord currently uses the /dev/sg? driver 
	- you need no additional driver
On *BSD, SGI IRIX and HP-UX the internal user level SCSI driver is used
but you will not need an OS specific SCSI user library.

On SunOS/Solaris:
You *need* the SCSI general driver 'scg' in order to run cdrecord.

SunOS 4.1.3 only:
	The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 Jörg Schilling,
	it is supplied binary in a loadable format.
	There is no future support, there is no non loadable support.

Solaris only:
	The 'scg' driver is Copyright 1986-1995 Jörg Schilling,
	it is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested 
	on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc).

Solaris only:
	It is _nice to have_ the 'fbk' driver to mount files that contain 
	images of file systems. Fbk means File simulates Block Device.

	The 'fbk' driver is Copyright 1988-1995 Jörg Schilling,
	it is supplied binary in pkgadd(1m) format and is tested
	on Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4 & Solaris 2.5 (sparc).

Cdrecord-1.3 or later adopts the right BUF_SIZE for each architecture.
This is to reduce some performance problems on Solaris x86.
It may be that the reason for this performance problems is that
the PC-architecture has no IO-MMU and therefore is not able to do DVMA.
If this points out to be the reason, I have to
change the scg driver & cdrecord, but this would 
be needed on Linux anyway.

Cdrecord is currently maintained with the following drives:

	Plextor PX-W124
	Plextor PX-W8220
	Plextor PX-W4220
	Plextor PX-R820
	Plextor PX-R412C
	Yamaha CRW-4416
	Yamaha CDR-400
	Ricoh MP-7040A
	Ricoh MP-7040S
	Ricoh MP-7060S (available only to Thomas Niederreiter and Heiko Eißfeld)
	TEAC CD-R55S
	TEAC CD-R58S
	TEAC CD-W54E
	Sanyo CDR-Bp2
	Sony CDU948S
	COMPRO/Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7502
	Philips CDD-2000
	Goldstar 8080

It should run also on:

	All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives
	All ATAPI/mmc compliant drives

	NOTE:

	It seems that all drives that have been initially released in 1999
	or later are MMC compliant. If a recent drive does not work with
	cdrecord, you most likely found a firmware bug.

Drives that have been reported to work or should work because
Andy MCFadden (see also http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq05.html) listed
them to be identical to working drives:

	ACER CR-1420C
	ACER CDRW 6206A
	AOPEN CRW9420 (Re-writable)
	BTC BCE 621E
	COMPRO CW-7502
	Dysan CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
	Dysan CR-1622
	DynaTec CDM-240J (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
	DynaTec CDM-240  (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	DynaTec CDM-400  (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Grundig CDR-100
	Hewlett Packard 4020i
	Hewlett Packard 6020i
	HP C4324/C4325 (HP SureStore 4020i/6020i)
	HP 7100
	HP 7110
	HP 7200
	HP 8100
	HP 8210
	HP CD-Writer+ M820
	Hi-Val CD-R (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
	IMATION CD-RW IMW040420
	JVC XR-W2001 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
	JVC XR-W2010 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
	JVC XR-W2020 (uses TEAC code - see below - audio not working)
	JVC XR-W2080 (first MMC drive from JVC)
	Kodak PCD-200 or Kodak PCD-200 Plus
	Kodak PCD-225
	Kodak PCD-240
	Kodak PCD-600
	Matsushita CW-7502
	Matsushita CW-7503
	Matsushita CW-7582
	Memorex CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
	Memorex CR-1622
	Memorex CRW-1622
	Microboards PlayWrite 2000 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
	Microboards PlayWrite 4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Microboards PlayWrite 4001RW
	MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x6
	Mitsubishi MCA-CDRW 226
	Mitsumi CR-2401-TS
	Mitsumi CR-2600-TE
	Mitsumi CR-2801-TE
	Mitsumi CR-4801-TE
	Mitsumi CR-4802-TE ???
	Nomai 680.rw
	Olympus CDS615E
	Olympus CDS620E (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924   and report inquiry)
	Olympus CD-R2x6 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924   and report inquiry)
	Optima Dis Kovery 650 CD-R
	OTI CDRW 965
	OTI-975 Socrates 1.0 (CDRW)
	Panasonic CW-7502
	Panasonic CW-7503
	Panasonic CW-7582
	Philips CDD 521 (CDD521/02  Revision: 2.06 has bad firmware - seems not to work)
	Philips CDD 521 (upgraded units only: ID: CDD521/10  Revision: 2.07)
	Philips CDD 522
	Philips CDD 2000
	Philips CDD 2600
	Philips CDD 3600
	Philips CDD 3610
	Philips CDRW400
	Philips Omniwriter 26
	Philips Omniwriter 26A
	Philips CDD4201 CD-RW
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000 (see TEAC/JVC): Need to upgrade firmware to 2.35
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-4x4
	Pioneer DW-S114X
	Plasmon CDR 4220
	Plasmon RF-4100
	Plasmon RF-4102
	Plasmon CDR 4400 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Plasmon CDR 480
	Plextor PX-R24CS (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
	Plextor PX-R412C
	Plextor PX-R820
	Plextor PX-W4220
	Plextor PX-W8220
	Plextor PX-W124
	Procom PCDR 4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Ricoh RO-1420C
	Ricoh MP-6200
	Ricoh MP-6200I
	Ricoh MP-6201
	Ricoh MP-7040A
	Ricoh MP-7040S
	Ricoh MP-7060S
	Sanyo CDR-Bp2
	Smart & Friendly CD-R1002 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924   and report inquiry)
	Smart & Friendly CD-R1004 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Smart & Friendly CD-R2004 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924   and report inquiry)
	Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PLUS
	Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PRO
	Smart & Friendly CD-R4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
	Smart & Friendly CD-R4006
	Smart & Friendly CD-R4012
	Smart & Friendly CD-RW226
	Smart & Friendly CD-R8020
	Sony CDU920S
	Sony CDU924S
	Sony CDU926S
	Sony CDU928S
	Sony CDU940S
	Sony CDU948S
	Sony CRX-100
	Sony CRX-140
	Sony CRX-145
	Taiyo Yuden CD-WO EW-50
	TEAC CD-R50S
	TEAC CD-R55S
	TEAC CD-R56S
	TEAC CD-R58S
	TEAC CD-W54E
	That's Write CDR-N820S
	Traxdata CDRW-2260EL-PRO
	Traxdata CDR-4120
	Traxdata CDRW-4260
	Turtle Beach 2040R (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
	WAITEK WT2036
	Wearnes CD-R622
	Wearnes CD-R632P
	Yamaha CDR-100
	Yamaha CDR-102
	Yamaha CDR-200
	Yamaha CDR-400(Firmware revision 1.0d and up otherwise upgrade)
	Yamaha CDR-401
	Yamaha CRW-4001
	Yamaha CRW-2260
	Yamaha CRW-2261
	Yamaha CRW-4260
	Yamaha CRW-4261
	Yamaha CRW-4416
	Yamaha CRW-6416
	Yamaha CRW-8424

Multi-session has not been tested with the Plasmon RF-4100

All companies that support me with SCSI command reference manuals and drives
will get (continued) support in the following releases.

The following drives will never be supported by cdrecord because they are too old:

	JVC XR-W1001
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-202
	Ricoh RS-9200CD

The following drives are currently not supported because I don't get specs:
(some of them may partially work: see above)

	Creative Labs CDR 4210
	JVC XR-W2001
	JVC XR-W2010
	JVC XR-W2020
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020
	Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040
	Plasmon CDR-4240
	Sony CDW-900E

The following drives may get support soon:

	Panasonic CW-7501
	Ricoh RS-1060C

To install get:

Solaris only:
	SCHILYscg.sparc.tar.Z	The scg driver in pkgadd format (sparc).
	SCHILYfbk.sparc.tar.Z	The fbk driver in pkgadd format (sparc).
	SCHILYscg.i386.tar.Z	The scg driver in pkgadd format (x86).
	SCHILYfbk.i386.tar.Z	The fbk driver in pkgadd format (x86).

Note that the fbk driver packet is for Solaris 2.4 and not system independent.

All Systems:
	cdrecord-1.6.1.tar.gz	The cdrecord for source distribution.

NOTE:	All these tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
	tar may get some minor trouble.

WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file!
	All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly.

To unpack the archive use:

	gzip -d < cdrecord.tar.gz | tar -xpf -


The files are located on:

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ ...
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg/ ...
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/fbk/ ...

Only use the mkisofs that is contained in this release.
All other mkisofs versions are too buggy.


Installation Process:

Solaris only:
	1) scg driver
			untar SCHILYscg.tar:
			su
			Password: xxxxx
			cd /tmp
			zcat SCHILYscg.tar | tar -xvf -
			pkgadd -d .
			reboot -- -r 

	2) fbk driver
			similar to scg driver (see above)

	3) Switch the CD-Writer to an unused target id (2 should do it)
		

NOTE:
	Be very careful. pkgadd does not check for the right target 
	architecture. Do not install drivers for intel on sparc
	and vice versa. You will get a corrupt system.

	You need to be root because you need access to /dev/scg? and to be
	able to put cdrecord into the real-time scheduling class.

All Systems:

The SCSI transport library has been taken from the sformat program.
Sformat is the first SCSI disk formatting/analyzing/repairing that runs on
SunOS/Solaris. The first release of sformat has been made for SunOS 3.0
(two years before Sun introduced their format utility). Sformat source
including 10 years of competence in SCSI disk handling is available
on:
	ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat

I am interested to hear if someone is interested in a kernel based
filesystem for Solaris that uses packet writing on the CD-Recorder.
The filesystem will create a single session CD that may be finally converted
to a hybrid filesystem that allows to be read as 
ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge extensions too.
Please mail suggestions to: wofs@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de

If you want to use the CD-recorder as CD-ROM device, have a look at 

Solaris only:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/sd

Current information on cdrecord may be found on:

	http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html


	Joerg Schilling

	(really Jörg Schilling if you have ISO-8859-1)

If you have questions mail to:

	HOME: 		joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
	UNIVERSITY:	js@cs.tu-berlin.de
	WORK:		schilling@fokus.gmd.de
