Subject:
Re: RSJ craps out with current OS2CDROM.DMD
From:
Peter Brown <losepete@ntlworld.com>
Date:
Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:07:35 +0000
Newsgroups:
rsj.de.support.cdwriter.os2

Hi Mike

Mike Forester wrote:

> With current versions of OS2CDROM.DMD installed (that ship with IBM's updated UDF support), RSJ gets *tons* of "Media error" and "Invalid command" popups; it totally fails to finalize a disk and often requires a reboot.  This has actually been true for a year or so, but I used an older version of the DMD to get around the problem.


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.

>
> Now, however, IBM's UDF and DVD-RW support is excellent, so I only need RSJ for burning CD-R and DVD-R.  RSJ will not work with OS2CDROM.DMD versions greater than 10.70; the UDF drivers will not work without the current DMD (10.122, as of the last UDF drop).


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 and see if that is where the error comes in - happily but whether using the latest udf update or the same combination of drivers from my eCS1.03 system UDF does not work on my eCS1.1 PC.

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 formatting will now only work with specific drives rather than most atapi devices.

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> I upgraded to RSJ 5.04 hoping this problem had been dealt with, but it hasn't.  In order to use RSJ, I have to backlevel OS2CDROM.DMD and reboot... and it's just as easy, in that case, to boot Windows and use Nero.
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> I've just read many posts about similar problems in this group.  I suspect OS2CDROM.DMD is the culprit.  Can anyone confirm?
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>

I suspect more than os2cdrom.dmd is involved - possibly os2dasd.dmd, and hope that someone, somewhere sorts out the problems caused by the err... "updates" they release.

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...

Never mind, One day everything will work perfectly without any glitches and then we will all be stuck for something to moan about

Regards

Pete

