Subject:
Re: RSJ craps out with current OS2CDROM.DMD
From:
Mike Forester <forester@spamtrap.netcom.com>
Date:
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:32:44 -0600
Newsgroups:
rsj.de.support.cdwriter.os2

Peter Brown wrote:

> I find that I can work around this when adding files to a cdrw written with an earlier version of os2cdrom.dmd etc. I copy the cdrw contents to a temp folder on hd and then reformat the cdrw and copy the contents back plus whatever I was going to add. Not very satisfactory though.


But that's not the problem.  My problem is with *any* media in the drive, using RSJ and the current version of os2cdrom.dmd.  I.e., RSJ won't write to any CD-R successfully unless I backlevel to 10.70.


> IBM's current UDF support is crap - UDF did work here, with some limitations regarding image files probably ea related, but stopped working sometime during ide and udf updates to my eCS1.1 system.
>
> Having said that my eCS1.03 PC is using udf 2.1.1 - must update to 212 


Correction:  IBM UDF *was* crap.  With 2.1.2 it's excellent.  I have a Sony DRU-500A (which is actually specifically supported by the IBM UDF package), and I can now use 4.7G DVD+RW drives as if they were floppies.  It's terrific.

This is a large improvement over RSJ's DVD "support" (even with an old OS2CDROM.DMD), which in my experience has always corrupted files on a multisession DVD.

> Having noted a few people in OS/2 newsgroups stating that they had "given up" trying to use udf with mcp4.52 I suspect there may be a problem somewhere within the base operating system. Or maybe the udf 


Nope.  I'm using UDF 2.1.2 with 4.52, and I repeat, it works fine.

> It may interest you to know that I am using what I think are the latest os2cdrom.dmd (Build 10.122) from the udf212 update and os2dasd.dmd (Build 14.091) from the idedasd.exe update. RSJ is working OK - but had to reformat as mentioned above - but udf...


Those are the same versions of OS2CDROM.DMD and OS2DASD.DMD I've got. Like I say, you can't reformat a CD-R, though.



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Mike Forester <forester {at} panix {dot} com>
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