wodim - write data to optical disk media
wodim [ general options ] dev=device [ track options ] track1...trackn
records data or audio Compact Discs on an Orange Book
CD-Recorder or to write DVD media on a DVD-Recorder.
The device is the device file or label offered by the operating system to access the recorder with SCSI GENERIC (sg) interface. Note that some
operating systems may provide separate device nodes for block oriented and sg access. For example, on older Linux systems the sg access was
available trough /dev/sg... files while the block oriented access was done through associated (but not identic) /dev/hd... and /dev/sr...
(or /dev/scd... ) files.
The user running wodim needs read and write access to the device . It is recommended to be root
or install the application as suid-root.
An alternative way of specifying the device, using the traditional SCSI descriptions in form of devicetype:bus/target/lun specification. The success of this method is not guaranteed since it requires an adaptation scheme for your architecture, and the numbers
vary depending on the hardware-internal numbering or on the order of hot-plug device detection.
Don't rely on them.
See -scanbus and --devices options below for details.
There are emulated SCSI compatible device systems, using the SCSI protocols transported over various hardware/media types. The most known
examples is ATAPI ("IDE burners") or USB storage ("external USB case"). If the pseudo-SCSI b/t/l device address specification is used instead
of the native one, prepend the "devicetype:" description to the emulated "bus/target/lun" device address.
If a file /etc/wodim.conf exists, the parameter to the dev= option may also be a drive name label in that file (see FILES section).
The device specification can be -1
or omited, which invokes use of an appropriate device for
the selected operation.
In Track At Once mode, each track corresponds to a single file that contains the prepared data for that track. If the argument is -
,
standard input is used for that track. Only one track may be taken
from stdin. In the other write modes, the direct file to track relation may not be implemented. In -clone mode, a single file contains
all data for the whole disk. To allow DVD writing on platforms that do not implement large file support, wodim concatenates all file arguments
to a single track when writing to DVD media.
General options must be before any track file name or track option.
-v Increment the level of general verbosity by one. This is used
e.g. to display the progress of the writing process.
| -V Increment the verbose level in respect of SCSI command transport
by one. This helps to debug problems during the writing pro
cess, that occur in the CD/DVD-Recorder. If you get incompre
hensible error messages you should use this flag to get more
detailed output. -VV will show data buffer content in addition.
Using -V or -VV slows down the process and may be the reason for
a buffer underrun.
| debug=#, -d
set debug=# or increment with -d. If you specify -dd, this
equals to debug=2. This may help to find problems while opening
a driver for libusal as well as with sector sizes and sector
types. Using -debug slows down may cause buffer underrun.
| kdebug=#, kd=# the usal-driver to modify the kernel debug value while SCSI commands are running.
| -silent, -s
-force continue on some errors. Be careful when using this
option. wodim implements several checks that prevent you from
doing unwanted things like damaging CD-RW media by improper
drives.
This option also implements some tricks that will allow you to blank bad CD-RW disks.
| -immed set the SCSI IMMED flag in certain commands
(load/eject/blank/close_track/close_session). This can be use
ful on broken systems with ATAPI harddisk and CD/DVD writer on
the same bus or with SCSI systems that don't use discon
nect/reconnect. These systems will freeze while blanking or
fixating a CD/DVD or while a DVD writer is filling up a session
to the minimum amount (approx. 800 MB). Setting the -immed flag
will request the command to return immediately while the opera
tion proceeds in background, making the bus usable for the other
devices and avoiding the system freeze. This is an experimental
feature which may work or not, depending on the model of the
CD/DVD writer. A correct solution would be to set up a correct
cabling but there seem to be notebooks around that have been set
up the wrong way by the manufacturer. As it is impossible to
fix this problem in notebooks, the -immed option has been added.
Experimental: wait short times while writing to the media.
This is expected to free the IDE bus if the CD/DVD writer and
the data source are connected to the same IDE cable. In this
case, the CD/DVD writer would otherwise usually block the IDE
bus for nearly all the time making it impossible to fetch data
from the source drive. See also minbuf= and -v option.
Use both features at your own risk. If it turns out that it
would make sense to have a separate option for the wait feature,
write to the author and convince him.
| minbuf=value
The # minbuf= option allows to define the minimum drive buffer
fill ratio for the experimental ATAPI wait mode that is intended
to free the IDE bus to allow hard disk and CD/DVD writer to be
on the same IDE cable. As the wait mode currently only works
when the verbose option -v has been specified, wodim implies the
verbose option in case the -immed or minbuf= option have been
specified. Valid values for minbuf= are between 25 and 95 for
25%...95% minimum drive buffer fill ratio.
| -dummy The CD/DVD-Recorder will go through all steps of the recording
process, but the laser is turned off during this procedure. It
is recommended to run several tests before actually writing to a
Compact Disk or Digital Versatile Disk, if the timing and load
response of the system is not known.
| -clone Tells wodim to handle images created by readom -clone. The
-clone may only be used in conjunction with with the -raw96r or
with the -raw16 option. Using -clone together with -raw96r is
preferred as it allows to write all subchannel data. The option
-raw16 should only be used with drives that do not support to
write in -raw96r mode.
| -dao
Disk At Once
| -sao Set SAO (Session At Once) mode which is usually called Disk At
Once mode. This currently only works with MMC drives that sup
port Session At Once mode. Note that wodim needs to know the
size of each track in advance for this mode (see the genisoimage
-print-size option and the EXAMPLES section for more informa
tion).
| -tao Set TAO (Track At Once) writing mode. This is the default write
mode in previous wodim versions. With most drives, this write
mode is required for multi session recording.
| -raw Set RAW writing mode. Using this option defaults to -raw96r.
Note that wodim needs to know the size of each track in advance
for this mode (see the genisoimage -print-size option and the
EXAMPLES section for more information).
| -raw96r
Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of raw P-W subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2448
bytes. This is the preferred raw writing mode as it gives best control over the CD writing process. If you find any problems
with the layout of a disk or with sub channel content (e.g. wrong times on the display when playing the CD) and your drive
supports to write in -raw96r or -raw16 mode, you should give it a try. There are several CD writers with bad firmware that
result in broken disks when writing in TAO or SAO mode. Writing data disks in raw mode needs significantly more CPU time than
other write modes. If your CPU is too slow, this may result in buffer underruns. Note that wodim needs to know the size of
each track in advance for this mode (see the genisoimage -print- size option and the EXAMPLES section for more information).
| -raw96p
Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of packed P-W subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2448
bytes. This is the less preferred raw writing mode as only a few recorders support it and some of these recorders have bugs
in the firmware implementation. Don't use this mode if your recorder supports -raw96r or -raw16. Writing data disks in raw
mode needs significantly more CPU time than other write modes. If your CPU is too slow, this may result in buffer underruns.
Note that wodim needs to know the size of each track in advance for this mode (see the genisoimage -print-size option and the
EXAMPLES section for more information).
| -raw16 Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 16 bytes
of P-Q subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2368 bytes.
If a recorder does not support -raw96r, this is the preferred
raw writing mode. It does not allow to write CD-Text or
CD+Graphics but it is the only raw writing mode in cheap CD
writers. As these cheap writers in most cases do not support
-dao mode. Don't use this mode if your recorder supports
-raw96r. Writing data disks in raw mode needs significantly
more CPU time than other write modes. If your CPU is too slow,
this may result in buffer underruns. Note that wodim needs to
know the size of each track in advance for this mode (see the
genisoimage -print-size option and the EXAMPLES section for more
information).
| -multi Allow multi session CDs to be made. This flag needs to be
present on all sessions of a multi session disk, except you want
to create a session that will be the last session on the media.
The fixation will be done in a way that allows the CD/DVD-
Recorder to append additional sessions later. This is done by
generation a TOC with a link to the next program area. The so
generated media is not 100% compatible to manufactured CDs
(except for CDplus). Use only for recording of multi session
CDs. If this option is present, the default track type is CD-
ROM XA mode 2 form 1 and the sector size is 2048 bytes. The XA
sector subheaders will be created by the drive. The Sony drives
have no hardware support for CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1. You have
to specify the -data option in order to create multi session
disks on these drives. As long as wodim does not have a coder
for converting data sectors to audio sectors, you need to force
CD-ROM sectors by including the -data option if you like to
record a multisession disk in SAO mode. Not all drives allow
multisession CDs in SAO mode.
| -msinfo
Retrieve multi session info in a form suitable for genisoimage
and print it to standard output. See msifile= option for another
version.
This option makes only sense with a CD that contains at least
one closed session and is appendable (not finally closed yet).
Some drives create error messages if you try to get the multi
session info for a disk that is not suitable for this operation.
| msifile=filename
Like -msinfo option but also stores the multi session info in a
file.
| -toc Retrieve and print out the table of content or PMA of a CD.
With this option, wodim will work with CD-R drives and with CD-
ROM drives.
| -atip Retrieve and print out the ATIP (absolute Time in Pre-groove)
info of a CD/DVD recordable or CD/DVD re-writable media. With
this option, wodim will try to retrieve the ATIP info. If the
actual drive does not support to read the ATIP info, it may be
that only a reduced set of information records or even nothing
is displayed. Only a limited number of MMC compliant drives sup
port to read the ATIP info.
If wodim is able to retrieve the lead-in start time for the
first session, it will try to decode and print the manufacturer
info from the media. DVD media does not have ATIP information
but there is equivalent prerecorded information that is read out
and printed.
| -fix The disk will only be fixated (i.e. a TOC for a CD-Reader will
be written). This may be used, if for some reason the disk has
been written but not fixated. This option currently does not
work with old TEAC drives (CD-R50S and CD-R55S).
| -nofix Do not fixate the disk after writing the tracks. This may be
used to create an audio disk in steps. An un-fixated disk can
usually not be used on a non CD-writer type drive but there are
audio CD players that will be able to play such a disk.
| -waiti Wait for input to become available on standard input before try
ing to open the SCSI driver. This allows wodim to read it's
input from a pipe even when writing additional sessions to a
multi session disk. When writing another session to a multi
session disk, genisoimage needs to read the old session from the
device before writing output. This cannot be done if wodim
opens the SCSI driver at the same time.
| -load Load the media and exit. This only works with a tray loading
mechanism but seems to be useful when using the Kodak disk
transporter.
| -lock Load the media, lock the door and exit. This only works with a
tray loading mechanism but seems to be useful when using the
Kodak disk transporter.
| -eject Eject disk after doing the work. Some devices (e.g. Philips)
need to eject the medium before creating a new disk. Doing a
-dummy test and immediately creating a real disk would not work
on these devices.
| speed=#
Set the speed factor of the writing process to #. # is an inte
ger, representing a multiple of the audio speed. This is about
150 KB/s for CD-ROM, about 172 KB/s for CD-Audio and about
1385 kB/s for DVD media. If no speed option is present, wodim
will try to get a drive specific speed value from the file
/etc/wodim.conf and if it cannot find one, it will try to get
the speed value from the CDR_SPEED environment and later from
the CDR_SPEED= entry in /etc/wodim.conf. If no speed value
could be found, wodim uses a drive specific default speed. The
default for all new (MMC compliant) drives is to use the maximum
supported by the drive. If you use speed=0 with a MMC compliant
drive, wodim will switch to the lowest possible speed for drive
and medium. If you are using an old (non MMC) drive that has
problems with speed=2 or speed=4, you should try speed=0.
| blank=type
Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW before writing. The blanking type may be one of:
help Display a list of possible blanking types.
| all Blank the entire disk. This may take a long time.
| fast Minimally blank the disk. This results in erasing the PMA, the TOC and the pregap.
| track Blank a track.
| unreserve Unreserve a reserved track.
| trtail Blank the tail of a track.
| unclose Unclose last session.
| session Blank the last session.
| | | | | | | | |
Not all drives support all blanking types. It may be necessary to use
blank=all if a drive reports a specified command as being invalid. If
used together with the -force flag, this option may be used to blank
CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be blanked. Note that you may need to
specify blank=all because some drives will not continue with certain
types of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that wodim does it's best if the
-force flag is used but it finally depends on the drive's firmware
whether the blanking operation will succeed or not.
| -format
Format a CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc. Formatting is currently only
implemented for DVD+RW media. A 'maiden' DVD+RW media needs to
be formatted before you may write to it. However, as wodim
autodetects the need for formatting in this case and auto for
mats the medium before it starts writing, the -format option is
only needed if you like to forcibly reformat a DVD+RW medium.
| fs=# Set the FIFO (ring buffer) size to #. You may use the same syntax as in dd(1), sdd(1) or star(1). The number representing the
size is taken in bytes unless otherwise specified. If a number
is followed directly by the letter ‘b', ‘k', ‘m', ‘s' or ‘f',
the size is multiplied by 512, 1024, 1024*1024, 2048 or 2352.
If the size consists of numbers separated by ‘x' or ‘*', multi
plication of the two numbers is performed. Thus fs=10x63k will
specify a FIFO size of 630 kBytes.
The size specified by the fs= argument includes the shared memory that is needed for administration. This is at least one page
of memory. If no fs= option is present, wodim will try to get the FIFO size value from the CDR_FIFOSIZE environment. The
default FIFO size is currently 4 MB.
The FIFO is used to increase buffering for the real time writing process. It allows to run a pipe from genisoimage directly into
wodim. If the FIFO is active and a pipe from genisoimage into wodim is used to create a CD, wodim will abort prior to do any
modifications on the disk if genisoimage dies before it starts writing. The recommended FIFO size is between 4 and 128 MBytes.
As a rule of thumb, the FIFO size should be at least equal to the size of the internal buffer of the CD/DVD-Recorder and no
more than half of the physical amount of RAM available in the machine. If the FIFO size is big enough, the FIFO statistics
will print a FIFO empty count of zero and the FIFO min fill is not below 20%. It is not wise to use too much space for the
FIFO. If you need more than 8 MB to write a CD at a speed less than 20x from an image on a local file system on an idle
machine, your machine is either underpowered, has hardware problems or is mis-configured. If you like to write DVDs or CDs at
higher speed, it makes sense to use at least 16 MB for the FIFO.
On old and small machines, you need to be more careful with the FIFO size. If your machine has less than 256 MB of physical
RAM, you should not set up a FIFO size that is more than 32 MB. The sun4c architecture (e.g. a Sparcstation-2) has only MMU page
table entries for 16 MBytes per process. Using more than 14 MBytes for the FIFO may cause the operating system in this
case to spend much time to constantly reload the MMU tables. Newer machines from Sun do not have this MMU hardware problem. I
have no information on PC-hardware reflecting this problem.
Old Linux systems for non x86 platforms have broken definitions for the shared memory size. You need to fix them and rebuild the
kernel or manually tell wodim to use a smaller FIFO.
If you have buffer underruns or similar problems (like a constantly empty drive buffer) and observe a zero fifo empty count,
you have hardware problems that prevents the data from flowing fast enough from the kernel memory to the drive. The FIFO size
in this case is sufficient, but you should check for a working DMA setup.
| ts=# Set the maximum transfer size for a single SCSI command to #.
The syntax for the ts= option is the same as for wodim fs=# or sdd bs=#.
If no ts= option has been specified, wodim defaults to a transfer size of 63 kB. If libusal gets lower values from the operat
ing system, the value is reduced to the maximum value that is possible with the current operating system. Sometimes, it may
help to further reduce the transfer size or to enhance it, but note that it may take a long time to find a better value by
experimenting with the ts= option.
| dev=target
Sets the SCSI target for the CD/DVD-Recorder, see notes above.
A typical device specification is dev=6,0 . A filename or vir
tual device name can be passed instead of the symbolic SCSI num
bers. The correct device/filename in this case can be found in
the system specific manuals of the target operating system. On
a FreeBSD system without CAM support, you need to use the con
trol device (e.g. /dev/rcd0.ctl). A correct device specifica
tion in this case may be dev=/dev/rcd0.ctl:@ .
On Linux and Windows 2000/XP, drives are accessible with their
device (or drive) names or with the symbolic SCSI numbers (not
recommended, mapping is not stable and could be completely
removed in the future).
If no dev option is present, wodim will try to get the device
from the CDR_DEVICE environment.
If the argument to the dev= option does not contain the charac
ters ',', '/', '@' or ':', it is interpreted as an label name
that may be found in the file /etc/wodim.conf (see FILES sec
tion).
| gracetime=#
Set the grace time before starting to write to # seconds. Val
ues below 2 seconds are not recommended to give the kernel or
volume management a chance to learn the new state.
| timeout=#
Set the default SCSI command timeout value to # seconds. The
default SCSI command timeout is the minimum timeout used for
sending SCSI commands. If a SCSI command fails due to a time
out, you may try to raise the default SCSI command timeout above
the timeout value of the failed command. If the command runs
correctly with a raised command timeout, please report the bet
ter timeout value and the corresponding command to the author of
the program. If no timeout option is present, a default timeout
of 40 seconds is used.
| driver=name
Allows the user to manually select a driver for the device. The
reason for the existence of the driver=name option is to allow
users to use wodim with drives that are similar to supported
drives but not known directly by wodim. All drives made after
1997 should be MMC standard compliant and thus supported by one
of the MMC drivers. It is most unlikely that wodim is unable to
find the right driver automatically. Use this option with
extreme care. If a wrong driver is used for a device, the possi
bility of creating corrupted disks is high. The minimum problem
related to a wrong driver is that the speed= or -dummy will not
work.
The following driver names are supported:
help To get a list of possible drivers together with a short description.
mmc_cd The generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver is auto-selected whenever wodim finds a MMC compliant drive that does not
identify itself to support writing at all, or that only identifies to support media or write modes not implemented in wodim.
| mmc_cd_dvd The generic SCSI-3/mmc CD/DVD driver is auto-selected
whenever wodim finds a MMC-2 or MMC-3 compliant drive that seems to support more than one medium type and the
tray is open or no medium could be found to select the right driver. This driver tries to close the tray,
checks the medium found in the tray and then branches to the driver that matches the current medium.
| mmc_cdr
The generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver is auto-selected
whenever wodim find a MMC compliant drive that only sup
ports to write CDs or a multi system drive that contains
a CD as the current medium.
| mmc_cdr_sony
The generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver is auto-selected whenever wodim would otherwise select the mmc_cdr driver
but the device seems to be made by Sony. The mmc_cdr_sony is definitely needed for the Sony CDU 928 as
this drive does not completely implement the MMC standard and some of the MMC SCSI commands have to be replaced by
Sony proprietary commands. It seems that all Sony drives (even newer ones) still implement the Sony proprietary
SCSI commands so it has not yet become a problem to use this driver for all Sony drives. If you find a newer Sony
drive that does not work with this driver, please report.
| mmc_dvd The generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW driver is auto-selected whenever wodim finds a MMC-2 or MMC-3 compliant
drive that supports to write DVDs and an appropriate medium is loaded. There is no Track At Once mode for DVD writers.
| mmc_dvdplus
The generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R/DVD+RW driver is auto-selected whenever one of the DVD+ media types that are
incompatible to each other is found. It checks media and then branches to the driver that matches the current medium.
| mmc_dvdplusr
The generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver is auto-selected whenever a DVD+R medium is found in an appropriate
writer. Note that for unknown reason, the DVD-Plus alliance does not like that there is a simulation mode
for DVD+R media. The author of wodim tries to convince manufacturers to implement a simulation mode for DVD+R
and implement support. DVD+R only supports one write mode that is somewhere between Track At Once and Packet
writing; this mode is selected in wodim via a the -dao/-sao option.
| mmc_dvdplusrw
The generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+RW driver is auto-selected whenever a DVD+RW medium is found in an appropriate
writer. As DVD+RW media needs to be formatted before it's first use, wodim auto-detects this media state and
performs a format before it starts to write. Note that for unknown reason, the DVD-Plus alliance does not like
that there is a simulation mode nor a way to erase DVD+RW media. DVD+RW only supports one write mode that is close
to Packet writing; this mode is selected in wodim via a the -dao/-sao option.
| cw_7501 Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7501 is auto-selected when wodim finds this old pre MMC drive. wodim
supports all write modes for this drive type.
| kodak_pcd_600 Kodak PCD-600 is auto-selected when wodim finds this old pre MMC drive which has been the first
high speed (6x) CD writer for a long time. This drive behaves similar to the Philips CDD-521 drive.
| philips_cdd521
Philips CDD-521 is auto-selected when wodim finds a Philips CDD-521 drive (which is the first
CD writer ever made) or one of the other drives that are known to behave similar to this drive. All Philips
CDD-521 or similar drives (see other drivers in this list) do not support Session At Once recording.
| philips_cdd521_old
Philips old CDD-521 is auto-selected when wodim finds a Philips CDD-521 with very old firmware which has some known limitations.
| philips_cdd522
Philips CDD-522 is auto-selected when wodim finds a Philips CDD-522 which is the successor of
the 521 or one of it's variants with Kodak label. wodim does not support Session At Once recording with these drives.
| philips_dumb Philips CDD-521 with pessimistic assump tions is never auto-selected. It may be used by hand
with drives that behave similar to the Philips CDD-521.
| pioneer_dws114x Pioneer DW-S114X is auto-selected when wodim finds one of the old non MMC CD writers from Pioneer.
| plasmon_rf4100 Plasmon RF 4100 is auto-selected when wodim finds this specific variant of the Philips CDD-521.
| ricoh_ro1060c Ricoh RO-1060C is auto-selected when wodim finds this drive. There is no real support for this drive yet.
| ricoh_ro1420c Ricoh RO-1420C is auto-selected when wodim finds a drive with this specific variant of the Philips
CDD-521 command set.
| scsi2_cd generic SCSI-2 CD-ROM driver is auto-selected when
ever wodim finds a pre MMC drive that does not support writing or a pre MMC writer that is not supported by wodim.
| sony_cdu924 Sony CDU-924 / CDU-948 is auto-selected whenever wodim finds one of the old pre MMC CD writers from Sony.
| teac_cdr50 Teac CD-R50S, Teac CD-R55S, JVC XR-W2010, Pinnacle RCD-5020 is auto-selected whenever one of the
drives is found that is known to the non MMC command set used by TEAC and JVC. Note that many drives from JVC
will not work because they do not correctly implement the documented command set and JVC has been unwilling to fix
or document the bugs. There is no support for the Session At Once write mode yet.
| tyuden_ew50 Taiyo Yuden EW-50 is auto-selected when wodim finds a drive with this specific variant of the
Philips CDD-521 command set.
| yamaha_cdr100 Yamaha CDR-100 / CDR-102 is auto-selected when wodim finds one of the old pre MMC CD writers from
Yamaha. There is no support for the Session At Once write mode yet.
| cdr_simul simulation CD-R driver allows to run timing and speed tests with parameters that match the behavior of CD writers.
| dvd_simul simulation DVD-R driver allows to run timing and speed tests with parameters that match the behavior of DVD writers.
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There are two special driver entries in the list: cdr_simul and dvd_simul. These driver entries are designed to make timing
tests at any speed or timing tests for drives that do not support the -dummy option. The simulation drivers implement a
drive with a buffer size of 1 MB that can be changed via the CDR_SIMUL_BUFSIZE environment variable. The simulation driver
correctly simulates even a buffer underrun condition. If the -dummy option is present, the simulation is not aborted in case of a buffer underrun.
| driveropts=option list
Set driver specific options. The options are specified a comma separated list. To get a list of valid options use
driveropts=help together with the -checkdrive option. If you like to set driver options without running a typical wodim task,
you need to use the -setdropts option in addition, otherwise the command line parser in wodim will complain. Currently implemented driver options are:
burnfree
Turn the support for Buffer Underrun Free writing on.
This only works for drives that support Buffer Underrun
Free technology, which is available on most drives manu
factured in this millenium. This may be called: Sanyo
BURN-Proof, Ricoh Just-Link, Yamaha Lossless-Link or sim
ilar.
This option is deprecated and is mentioned here for docu
mentation purposes only. The BURN-Free feature is enabled
by default if the drive supports it. However, use of
BURN-Free may cause decreased burning quality. Therefore
it can be useful to disable it for certain purposes, eg.
when creating a master copy for mass CD production.
| noburnfree Turn the support for Buffer Underrun Free writing off.
| varirec=value
Turn on the Plextor VariRec writing mode. The mandatory parameter value is the laser power offset and currently
may be selected from -2, -1, 0, 1, 2. In addition, you need to set the write speed to 4 in order to allow
VariRec to work.
| gigarec=value Manage the Plextor GigaRec writing mode. The mandatory
parameter value is the disk capacity ratio compared to normal recording and currently may be selected from 0.6,
0.7, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. If values < 1.0 are used, then the effect is similar to the Yamaha Audio Master Q.
R. feature. If values > 1.0 are used, then the disk capacity is increased.
Not all drives support all GigaRec values. When a drive uses the GigaRec feature, the write speed is limited to 8x.
| audiomaster Turn on the Yamaha Audio Master Q. R. feature which usu
ally should result in high quality CDs that have less reading problems in Hi-Fi players. As this is
implemented as a variant of the Session at Once write mode, it will only work if you select SAO write mode and
there is no need to turn it off. The Audio Master mode will work with a limited speed but may also be used with
data CDs. In Audio Master mode, the pits on the CD will be written larger then usual so the capacity of the
medium is reduced when turning this feature on. A 74 minute CD will only have a capacity of 63 minutes if
Audio Master is active and the capacity of a 80 minute CD will be reduced to 68 minutes.
| forcespeed Normally, modern drives know the highest possible speed
for different media and may reduce the speed in order to grant best write quality. This technology may be called:
Plextor PowerRec, Ricoh Just-Speed, Yamaha Optimum Write Speed Control or similar. Some drives (e.g. Plextor,
Ricoh and Yamaha) allow to force the drive to use the selected speed even if the medium is so bad that the
write quality would be poor. This option tells such a drive to force to use the selected speed regardless of the medium quality.
Use this option with extreme care and note that the drive should know better which medium will work at full speed.
The default is to turn forcespeed off, regardless of the defaults of the drive.
| noforcespeed Turn off the force speed feature.
| speedread Some ultra high speed drives such as 48x and faster
drives from Plextor limit the read speed for unknown media to e.g. 40x in order to avoid damaged disks and
drives. Using this option tells the drive to read any media as fast as possible. Be very careful as this may
cause the media to break in the drive while reading, resulting in a damaged media and drive!
| nospeedread Turn off unlimited read speed.
| singlesession Turn the drive into a single session only drive. This
allows to read defective or non-compliant (illegal) media with extremely non-standard additional (broken/illegal)
TOC entries in the TOC from the second or higher session. Some of these disks become usable if only the information
from the first session is used. You need to enable Single Session mode before you insert the defective disk!
| nosinglesession Turn off single session mode. The drive will again behave as usual.
| hidecdr Hide the fact that a medium might be a recordable medium.
This allows to make CD-Rs look like CD-ROMs and applications believe that the media in the drive is not a CD-R.
| nohidecdr Turn off hiding CD-R media.
| tattooinfo Use this option together with -checkdrive to retrieve the
image size information for the Yamaha DiskT@2 feature. The images always have a line length of 3744 pixel. Line
number 0 (radius 0) is mapped to the center of the disk. If you know the inner and outer radius you will be able
to create a pre distorted image that later may appear undistorted on the disk.
| tattoofile=name Use this option together with -checkdrive to write an
image prepared for the Yamaha DiskT@2 feature to the medium. The file must be a file with raw image B&W data
(one byte per pixel) in a size as retrieved by a previous call to tattoofile=name . If the size of the image
equals the maximum possible size (3744 x 320 pixel), wodim will use the first part of the file. This first
part then will be written to the leftover space on the CD.
Note that the image must be mirrored to be readable from the pick up side of the CD.
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| -setdropts Set the driveropts specified by driveropts=option list, the speed of the drive and the dummy flag and exit. This allows
wodim to set drive specific parameters that are not directly used by wodim like e.g. single session mode, hide cdr and similar.
It is needed in case that driveropts=option list should be called without planning to run a typical wodim task.
| -checkdrive Checks if a driver for the current drive is present and exit. If the drive is a known drive, wodim uses exit code 0.
| -prcap Print the drive capabilities for SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives as
obtained from mode page 0x2A. Values marked with kB use 1000 bytes as kilo-byte, values marked with KB use 1024 bytes as Kilo-byte.
| -inq Do an inquiry for the drive, print the inquiry info and exit.
| -scanbus Scan all SCSI devices on all SCSI busses and print the inquiry
strings. This option may be used to find SCSI address of the CD/DVD-Recorder on a system. If some device types are invisible,
try using dev=ATA: or similar option to give a hint about the device typ you are looking for. The numbers printed out as
labels are computed by: bus * 100 + target. On plattforms and device systems without persistent SCSI number management the
results are not reliable. Use the .B --devices option instead.
| --devices Look for useable devices using the system specific functions,
eg. probing with usual device nodes in /dev/*, and display the detections using symbolic device names in OS specific syntax.
| -reset Try to reset the SCSI bus where the CD recorder is located. This
works not on all operating systems.
| -abort Try to send an abort sequence to the drive. If you use wodim only, this should never be needed; but other software may leave
a drive in an unusable condition. Calling wodim -reset may be needed if a previous write has been interrupted and the software
did not tell the drive that it will not continue to write.
| -overburn Allow wodim to write more than the official size of a medium.
This feature is usually called overburning and depends on the fact that most blank media may hold more space than the official
size. As the official size of the lead-out area on the disk is 90 seconds (6750 sectors) and a disk usually works if there are
at least 150 sectors of lead out, all media may be overburned by at least 88 seconds (6600 sectors). Most CD recorders only do
overburning in SAO or RAW mode. Known exceptions are TEAC CD-R50S, TEAC CD-R55S and the Panasonic CW-7502. Some drives do
not allow to overburn as much as you might like and limit the size of a CD to e.g. 76 minutes. This problem may be circum
vented by writing the CD in RAW mode because this way the drive has no chance to find the size before starting to burn. There
is no guarantee that your drive supports overburning at all. Make a test to check if your drive implements the feature.
| -ignsize
Ignore the known size of the medium. This option should be used with extreme care, it exists only for debugging purposes don't
use it for other reasons. It is not needed to write disks with more than the nominal capacity. This option implies -overburn.
| -useinfo Use *.inf files to overwrite audio options. If this option is
used, the pregap size information is read from the *.inf file that is associated with the file that contains the audio data for a track.
If used together with the -audio option, wodim may be used to write audio CDs from a pipe from icedax if you call wodim with
the *.inf files as track parameter list instead of using audio files. The audio data is read from stdin in this case. See
EXAMPLES section below. wodim first verifies that stdin is not connected to a terminal and runs some heuristic consistency
checks on the *.inf files and then sets the track lengths from the information in the *.inf files.
If you like to write from stdin, make sure that wodim is called with a large enough FIFO size, reduce the write speed to a value
below the read speed of the source drive and switch the burn-free option for the recording drive on.
| defpregap=#
Set the default pre-gap size for all tracks except track number 1. This option currently only makes sense with the TEAC drive
when creating track-at-once disks without the 2 second silence before each track.
This option may go away in future.
| -packet Set Packet writing mode. This is an experimental interface.
| pktsize=# Set the packet size to #, forces fixed packet mode. This is an experimental interface.
| -noclose Do not close the current track, useful only when in packet writing mode. This is an experimental interface.
| mcn=med_cat_nr Set the Media Catalog Number of the CD to med_cat_nr.
| -text Write CD-Text information based on information taken from a file that contains ascii information for the text strings. wodim
supports CD-Text information based on the content of the *.inf files created by icedax and CD-Text information based on the
content from a CUE sheet file. If a CUE sheet file contains both (binary CDTEXTFILE and text based SONGWRITER) entries, then
the information based on the CDTEXTFILE entry will win.
You need to use the -useinfo option in addition in order to tell wodim to read the *.inf files or cuefile=filename in order to
tell wodim to read a CUE sheet file in addition. If you like to write your own CD-Text information, edit the *.inf files or the
CUE sheet file with a text editor and change the fields that are relevant for CD-Text.
| textfile=filename Write CD-Text based on information found in the binary file
filename. This file must contain information in a data format defined in the SCSI-3 MMC-2 standard and in the Red Book. The
four byte size header that is defined in the SCSI standard is optional and allows to make the recognition of correct data less
ambiguous. This is the best option to be used to copy CD-Text data from existing CDs that already carry CD-Text information.
To get data in a format suitable for this option use wodim -vv -toc to extract the information from disk. If both,
textfile=filename and CD-Text information from *.inf or *.cue files are present, textfile=filename will overwrite the other information.
| cuefile=filename Take all recording related information from a CDRWIN compliant
CUE sheet file. No track files are allowed when this option is present and the option -dao is currently needed in addition.
|
TRACK OPTIONS
Track options may be mixed with track file names.
| isrc=ISRC_number Set the International Standard Recording Number for the next track to ISRC_number.
| index=list Sets an index list for the next track. In index list is a comma
separated list of numbers that are counting from index 1. The first entry in this list must contain a 0, the following numbers
must be an ascending list of numbers (counting in 1/75 seconds) that represent the start of the indices. An index list in the
form: 0,7500,15000 sets index 1 to the start of the track, index 2 100 seconds from the start of the track and index 3 200 seconds from the start of the track.
| -audio If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-DA (similar to Red Book) audio format. The file with data for this tracks should contain stereo, 16-bit digital audio with
44100 samples/s. The byte order should be the following: MSB left, LSB left, MSB right, LSB right, MSB left and so on. The
track should be a multiple of 2352 bytes. It is not possible to put the master image of an audio track on a raw disk because
data will be read in multiple of 2352 bytes during the recording process.
If a filename ends in .au or .wav the file is considered to be a structured audio data file. wodim assumes that the file in this
case is a Sun audio file or a Microsoft .WAV file and extracts the audio data from the files by skipping over the non-audio
header information. In all other cases, wodim will only work correctly if the audio data stream does not have any header.
Because many structured audio files do not have an integral number of blocks (1/75th second) in length, it is often necessary
to specify the -pad option as well. wodim recognizes that audio data in a .WAV file is stored in Intel (little-endian) byte
order, and will automatically byte-swap the data if the CD recorder requires big-endian data. wodim will reject any audio
file that does not match the Red Book requirements of 16-bit stereo samples in PCM coding at 44100 samples/second.
Using other structured audio data formats as input to wodim will usually work if the structure of the data is the structure
described above (raw pcm data in big-endian byte order). However, if the data format includes a header, you will hear a
click at the start of a track.
If neither -data nor -audio have been specified, wodim defaults to -audio for all filenames that end in .au or .wav and to -data
for all other files.
| -swab If this flag is present, audio data is assumed to be in byte-swapped (little-endian) order. Some types of CD-Writers e.g.
Yamaha, Sony and the new SCSI-3/mmc drives require audio data to be presented in little-endian order, while other writers require
audio data to be presented in the big-endian (network) byte order normally used by the SCSI protocol. wodim knows if a CD-
Recorder needs audio data in big- or little-endian order, and corrects the byte order of the data stream to match the needs of
the recorder. You only need the -swab flag if your data stream is in Intel (little-endian) byte order.
Note that the verbose output of wodim will show you if swapping is necessary to make the byte order of the input data fit the
required byte order of the recorder. wodim will not show you if the -swab flag was actually present for a track.
| -data If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM mode 1 (Yellow Book) format. The data size is a multiple of 2048 bytes. The file with track data should contain an
ISO-9660 or Rock Ridge filesystem image (see genisoimage for more details). If the track data is an ufs filesystem image,
fragment size should be set to 2 KB or more to allow CD-drives with 2 KB sector size to be used for reading.
-data is the default, if no other flag is present and the file does not appear to be of one of the well known audio file types.
If neither -data nor -audio have been specified, wodim defaults to -audio for all filenames that end in .au or .wav and to -data
for all other files.
| -mode2 If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM mode 2 format. The data size is a multiple of 2336 bytes.
| -xa If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in
CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 format. The data size is a multiple of 2048 bytes. The XA sector sub headers will be created by the
drive. With this option, the write mode is the same as with the -multi option.
| -xa1 If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 format. The data size is a multiple of
2056 bytes. The XA sector sub headers are part of the user data and have to be supplied by the application that prepares the data to be written.
| -xa2 If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 2 format. The data is a multiple of 2324
bytes. The XA sector sub headers will be created by the drive.
| -xamix If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in a way that allows a mix of CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1/2 format. The
data size is a multiple of 2332 bytes. The XA sector sub headers are part of the user data and have to be supplied by the
application that prepares the data to be written. The CRC and the P/Q parity ECC/EDC information (depending on the sector
type) have to be supplied by the application that prepares the data to be written.
| -cdi If this flag is present, the TOC type for the disk is set to CDI. This only makes sense with XA disks.
| -isosize
Use the ISO-9660 file system size as the size of the next track. This option is needed if you want wodim to directly read the
image of a track from a raw disk partition or from a TAO master CD. In the first case the option -isosize is needed to limit the
size of the CD to the size of the ISO filesystem. In the second case the option -isosize is needed to prevent wodim from reading
the two run out blocks that are appended by each CD-recorder in track at once mode. These two run out blocks cannot be read and
would cause a buffer underrun that would cause a defective copy. Do not use this option on files created by genisoimage and in
case wodim reads the track data from stdin. In the first case, you would prevent wodim from writing the amount of padding that
has been appended by genisoimage and in the latter case, it will not work because stdin is not seekable.
If -isosize is used for a track, wodim will automatically add padding for this track as if the -pad option has been used but
the amount of padding may be less than the padding written by genisoimage. Note that if you use -isosize on a track that con
tains Sparc boot information, the boot information will be lost.
Note also that this option cannot be used to determine the size of a file system if the multi session option is present.
| -pad If the track is a data track, 15 sectors of zeroed data will be
added to the end of this and each subsequent data track. In this case, the -pad option is superseded by the padsize= option.
It will remain however as a shorthand for padsize=15s. If the -pad option refers to an audio track, wodim will pad the audio
data to be a multiple of 2352 bytes. The audio data padding is done with binary zeroes which is equal to absolute silence.
-pad remains valid until disabled by -nopad.
| padsize=#
Set the amount of data to be appended as padding to the next track to #. Opposed to the behavior of the -pad option, the
value for padsize= is reset to zero for each new track. wodim assumes a sector size of 2048 bytes for the padsize= option,
independent from the real sector size and independent from the write mode. The megabytes mentioned in the verbose mode output
however are counting the output sector size which is e.g. 2448 bytes when writing in RAW/RAW96 mode. See fs= option for possi
ble arguments. To pad the equivalent of 20 minutes on a CD, you may write padsize=20x60x75s. Use this option if your CD-drive
is not able to read the last sectors of a track or if you want to be able to read the CD on a Linux system with the ISO-9660
filesystem read ahead bug. If an empty file is used for track data, this option may be used to create a disk that is entirely
made of padding. This may e.g. be used to find out how much overburning is possible with a specific media.
| -nopad Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
| -shorttrack Allow all subsequent tracks to violate the Red Book track length
standard which requires a minimum track length of 4 seconds. This option is only useful when used in SAO or RAW mode. Not
all drives support this feature. The drive must accept the resulting CUE sheet or support RAW writing.
| -noshorttrack Re-enforce the Red Book track length standard. Tracks must be at least 4 seconds.
| pregap=# Set the pre-gap size for the next track. This option currently
only makes sense with the TEAC drive when creating track-at-once disks without the 2 second silence before each track.
This option may go away in future.
| -preemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks will indicate that the audio data has been sampled with
50/15 microsec pre-emphasis. The data, however is not modified during the process of transferring from file to disk. This
option has no effect on data tracks.
| -nopreemp
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks will indicate that the audio data has been mastered with
linear data - this is the default.
| -copy If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio
tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has permission to be copied without limit. This option has no
effect on data tracks.
| -nocopy
If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has
permission to be copied only once for personal use - this is the default.
| -scms If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio
tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has no permission to be copied anymore.
| tsize=#
If the master image for the next track has been stored on a raw disk, use this option to specify the valid amount of data on
this disk. If the image of the next track is stored in a regular file, the size of that file is taken to determine the length of
this track. If the track contains an ISO 9660 filesystem image use the -isosize option to determine the length of that filesystem image.
In Disk at Once mode and with some drives that use the TEAC programming interface, even in Track at Once mode, wodim needs to
know the size of each track before starting to write the disk.
wodim now checks this and aborts before starting to write. If this happens you will need to run genisoimage -print-size before
and use the output (with 's' appended) as an argument to the tsize= option of wodim (e.g. tsize=250000s).
See fs= option for possible arguments.
| -version
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EXAMPLES
For all examples below, it will be assumed that the CD/DVD-Recorder is connected to the primary SCSI bus of the machine. The SCSI target id is set to 2.
To record a pure CD-ROM at double speed, using data from the file cdimage.raw:
wodim -v speed=2 dev=2,0 cdimage.raw
To create an image for a ISO 9660 filesystem with Rock Ridge extensions:
genisoimage -R -o cdimage.raw /home/joerg/master/tree
To check the resulting file before writing to CD on Solaris:
mount -r -F fbk -o type=hsfs /dev/fbk0:cdimage.raw /mnt
On Linux:
mount cdimage.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
Go on with:
ls -lR /mnt
umount /mnt
If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the structure of
the filesystem is not too complex, wodim will run without creating an
image of the ISO 9660 filesystem. Simply run the pipeline:
genisoimage -R /master/tree | wodim -v fs=6m speed=2 dev=2,0 -
The recommended minimum FIFO size for running this pipeline is 4 MBytes. As the default FIFO size is 4 MB, the fs= option needs only be
present if you want to use a different FIFO size. If your system is loaded, you should run genisoimage in the real time class too. To
raise the priority of genisoimage replace the command
genisoimage -R /master/tree
by
priocntl -e -c RT -p 59 genisoimage -R /master/tree
on Solaris and by
nice --18 genisoimage -R /master/tree
on systems that don't have UNIX International compliant real-time scheduling.
wodim runs at priority 59 on Solaris, you should run genisoimage at no more than priority 58. On other systems, you should run genisoimage at
no less than nice --18.
Creating a CD-ROM without file system image on disk has been tested on a Sparcstation-2 with a Yamaha CDR-400. It did work up to quad speed
when the machine was not loaded. A faster machine may be able to handle quad speed also in the loaded case.
To record a pure CD-DA (audio) at single speed, with each track contained in a file named track01.cdaudio, track02.cdaudio, etc:
wodim -v speed=1 dev=/dev/cdrw -audio track*.cdaudio
To check if it will be ok to use double speed for the example above.
Use the dummy write option:
wodim -v -dummy speed=2 dev=/dev/cdrw -audio track*.cdaudio
To record a mixed-mode CD with an ISO 9660 filesystem from cdimage.raw on the first track, the other tracks being audio tracks from the files
track01.cdaudio, track02.cdaudio, etc:
wodim -v dev=2,0 cdimage.raw -audio track*.cdaudio
To handle drives that need to know the size of a track before starting to write, first run
genisoimage -R -q -print-size /master/tree
and then run
genisoimage -R /master/tree | wodim speed=2 dev=2,0 tsize=XXXs -
where XXX is replaced by the output of the previous run of genisoimage.
To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run
icedax dev=/dev/cdrom -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav
and then run
wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav
This will try to copy track indices and to read CD-Text information from disk. If there is no CD-Text information, icedax will try to get
the information from freedb.org instead.
To copy an audio CD from a pipe (without intermediate files), first run
icedax dev=1,0 -vall cddb=0 -info-only
and then run
icedax dev=1,0 -no-infofile -B -Oraw - | \
wodim dev=2,0 -v -dao -audio -useinfo -text *.inf
This will get all information (including track size info) from the *.inf files and then read the audio data from stdin.
If you like to write from stdin, make sure that wodim is called with a large enough FIFO size (e.g. fs=128m), reduce the write speed to a
value below the read speed of the source drive (e.g. speed=12), and get a CD/DVD drive with BURN-Free feature if it is not available yet.
To set drive options without writing a CD (e.g. to switch a drive to single session mode), run
wodim dev=1,0 -setdropts driveropts=singlesession
If you like to do this when no CD is in the drive, call
wodim dev=1,0 -force -setdropts driveropts=singlesession
To copy a CD in clone mode, first read the master CD using:
readom dev=b,t,l -clone f=somefile
or (in case the CD contains many sectors that are unreadable by intention) by calling:
readom dev=1,0 -clone -nocorr f=somefile
will create the files somefile and somefile.toc. Then write the CD using:
wodim dev=1,0 -raw96r -clone -v somefile
ENVIRONMENT
CDR_DEVICE
This may either hold a device identifier that is suitable to the
open call of the SCSI transport library or a label in the file
/etc/wodim.conf.
CDR_SPEED
Sets the default speed value for writing (see also speed=
option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
Sets the default size of the FIFO (see also fs=# option).
CDR_FORCERAWSPEED
If this environment variable is set, wodim will allow you to
write at the full RAW encoding speed a single CPU supports.
This will create high potential of buffer underruns. Use with
care.
CDR_FORCESPEED
If this environment variable is set, wodim will allow you to
write at the full DMA speed the system supports. There is no
DMA reserve for reading the data that is to be written from
disk. This will create high potential of buffer underruns. Use
with care.
RSH
If the RSH environment is present, the remote connection will
not be created via rcmd(3) but by calling the program pointed to
by RSH. Use e.g. RSH=/usr/bin/ssh to create a secure shell
connection.
Note that this forces wodim to create a pipe to the rsh(1) pro
gram and disallows wodim to directly access the network socket
to the remote server. This makes it impossible to set up
performance parameters and slows down the connection compared to
a root initiated rcmd(3) connection.
RSCSI
If the RSCSI environment is present, the remote SCSI server will
not be the program /opt/schily/sbin/rscsi but the program
pointed to by RSCSI. Note that the remote SCSI server program
name will be ignored if you log in using an account that has
been created with a remote SCSI server program as login shell.
FILES
/etc/wodim.conf
Default values can be set for the following options in
/etc/wodim.conf. For example: CDR_FIFOSIZE=8m or CDR_SPEED=2
CDR_DEVICE
This may either hold a device identifier that is suitable
to the open call of the SCSI transport library or a label
in the file /etc/wodim.conf that allows to identify a
specific drive on the system.
CDR_SPEED
Sets the default speed value for writing (see also speed=
option).
CDR_FIFOSIZE
Sets the default size of the FIFO (see also fs=# option).
CDR_MAXFIFOSIZE
Sets the maximum size of the FIFO (see also fs=# option).
Any other keyword (label) is an identifier (symbolic name) for a
specific drive
on the system. Such an identifier may not contain the
characters ',', '/', '@' or ':'.
Each line that follows a label contains a whitespace sep
arated list of items. Currently, four items are recog
nized: the drive's target specification, the default
speed that should be used for this drive, the default
FIFO size that should be used for this drive and drive
specific options. The values for speed and fifosize may
be set to -1 to tell wodim to use the global defaults.
target can be -1 to use the auto-guessing of the drive
(see above).
The value for driveropts may be omited or set to "" if no
driveropts are used. A typical line may look this way:
plex760= 0,5,0 12 50m varirec=1
pioneer= /dev/hdd -1 -1
This tells wodim that a drive named plex760 is at scsibus
0, target 5, lun 0 and should be used with speed 12 and a
FIFO size of 50 MB. It also uses some device specific
parameter. A second drive may is accesible via the
device file /dev/hdd and uses the default speed and the
default FIFO size.
SEE ALSO
icedax(1), readom(1), genisoimage(1), ssh(1).
NOTES
PROCESS SCHEDULING PRIORITY
Wodim tries to get higher process priority using different methods. This is important because the burn process is usualy a realtime task,
no long delays should occur while transmiting fresh data to the recorder. This is especially important on systems with insufficient RAM
where swaping can create delays of many seconds.
A possible workaround on underpowered systems is the use of the burn free or similar feature, allowing the recorder to resume.
Root permissions are usualy required to get higher process scheduling priority.
On SVr4 compliant systems, wodim uses the real time class to get the highest scheduling priority that is possible (higher than all kernel
processes). On systems with POSIX real time scheduling wodim uses real time scheduling too, but may not be able to gain a priority that is
higher than all kernel processes.
In order to be able to use the SCSI transport subsystem of the OS, run at highest priority and lock itself into core wodim either needs to be
run as root, needs to be installed suid root or must be called via RBACs pfexec mechanism.
On Solaris you need to stop the volume management if you like to use the USCSI fallback SCSI transport code. Even things like wodim -scanbus
will not work if the volume management is running.
Disks made in Track At Once mode are not suitable as a master for direct mass production by CD manufacturers. You will need the disk at
once option to record such disks. Nevertheless the disks made in Track At Once will normally be read in all CD players. Some old audio CD
players however may produce a two second click between two audio tracks.
The minimal size of a track is 4 seconds or 300 sectors. If you write smaller tracks, the CD-Recorder will add dummy blocks. This is not an
error, even though the SCSI-error message looks this way.
The Yamaha CDR-400 and all new SCSI-3/mmc conforming drives are sup ported in single and multi-session.
You should run several tests in all supported speeds of your drive with the -dummy option turned on if you are using wodim on an unknown sys
tem. Writing a CD is a real-time process. NFS, CIFS and other network file systems won't always deliver constantly the needed data rates. If
you want to use wodim with CD-images that are located on a NFS mounted filesystem, be sure that the FIFO size is big enough. If you want to
make sure that buffer underruns are not caused by your source disk, you may use the command
wodim -dummy dev=2,0 padsize=600m /dev/null
to create a disk that is entirely made of dummy data.
There are also cases where you either need to be root or install wodim executable with suid-root permissions. First, if you are using a device
manufactured before 1999 which requires a non-MMC driver, you should run wodim in dummy mode before writing data. If you find a problem
doing this, please report it to the cdrkit maintainers (see below).
Second, certain functionality may be unusable because of Linux's SCSI command filtering. When using wodim for anything except of pure data
writing, you should also test the process in dummy mode and report trouble to the contact address below.
If you still want to run wodim with root permissions, you can set the permissions of the executable to suid-root. See the additional notes of
your system/program distribution or README.suidroot which is part of the cdrkit source.
You should not connect old drives that do not support disconnect/reconnect to either the SCSI bus that is connected to the CD-Recorder or the
source disk.
A Compact Disc can have no more than 99 tracks.
When creating a disc with both audio and data tracks, the data should be on track 1 otherwise you should create a CDplus disk which is a
multi session disk with the first session containing the audio tracks and the following session containing the data track.
Many operating systems are not able to read more than a single data track, or need special software to do so.
If you have more information or SCSI command manuals for currently unsupported CD/DVD/BR/HD-DVD-Recorders, please contact the cdrkit main
tainers (see below).
Many CD recorders have bugs and often require a firmware update to work correctly. If you exprience problems which cannot be solved or
explained by the notes above, please look for instructions on the home page of the particular manufacturer.
Some bugs will force you to power cycle the device or to reboot the machine.
The FIFO percent output is computed just after a block of data has been written to the CD/DVD-Recorder. For this reason, there will never be
100% FIFO fill ratio while the FIFO is in streaming mode.
DIAGNOSTICS
You have 9 seconds to abort wodim start after you see the message:
Starting to write CD at speed %d in %s mode for %s session. In most shells you can do that by pressing Ctrl-C.
A typical error message for a SCSI command looks like:
wodim: I/O error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 00 20 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 25 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x25 Qual 0x00 (logical unit not supported) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
The first line gives information about the transport of the command.
The text after the first colon gives the error text for the system call from the view of the kernel. It usually is: I/O error unless other
problems happen. The next words contain a short description for the SCSI command that fails. The rest of the line tells you if there were
any problems for the transport of the command over the SCSI bus. fatal error means that it was not possible to transport the command (i.e. no
device present at the requested SCSI address).
The second line prints the SCSI command descriptor block for the failed command.
The third line gives information on the SCSI status code returned by the command, if the transport of the command succeeds. This is error
information from the SCSI device.
The fourth line is a hex dump of the auto request sense information for the command.
The fifth line is the error text for the sense key if available, followed by the segment number that is only valid if the command was a
copy command. If the error message is not directly related to the current command, the text deferred error is appended.
The sixth line is the error text for the sense code and the sense qualifier if available. If the type of the device is known, the sense data
is decoded from tables in scsierrs.c . The text is followed by the error value for a field replaceable unit.
The seventh line prints the block number that is related to the failed command and text for several error flags. The block number may not be valid.
The eight line reports the timeout set up for this command and the time that the command really needed to complete.
The following message is not an error:
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 2048/2048 (1 sectors).
wodim: I/O error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 80 00 00 27 0A 00 00 00 00 B5 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0xB5 Qual 0x00 (dummy data blocks added) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk -2147483609 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
It simply notifies, that a track that is smaller than the minimum size has been expanded to 300 sectors.
BUGS
netscsid does not work properly and is generaly unmaintained. It is probably not compatible with rscsi from cdrtools either. Good bugfixes
are welcome, talk to Cdrkit maintainers.
cuefile support is very limited, only one file is allowed. For voluneers, see TODO file in the source.
Specifying an audio file multiple times causes corruption of the second track (effectively no data plus minimum padding).
Some of the bugs may be fixed in Joerg Schilling's cdrtools. See there for details, URL attached below.
CREDITS
Joerg Schilling (schilling@fokus.fhg.de) For writing cdrecord and libscg which represent the most parts of wodim's code.
Bill Swartz (Bill_Swartz@twolf.com) For helping me with the TEAC driver support
Aaron Newsome (aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com) For letting me develop Sony support on his drive
Eric Youngdale (eric@andante.jic.com) For supplying mkisofs
Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il) For tips on the ATAPI standard
Finn Arne Gangstad (finnag@guardian.no) For the first FIFO implementation.
Dave Platt (dplatt@feghoot.ml.org) For creating the experimental packet writing support, the first implementation of CD-RW blanking support, the
first .wav file decoder and many nice discussions on cdrecord.
Chris P. Ross (cross@eng.us.uu.net) For the first implementation of a BSDI SCSI transport.
Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net) For creating the first parallel port transport implemen tation for Linux.
Kenneth D. Merry (ken@kdm.org) for providing the CAM port for FreeBSD together with Michael Smith (msmith@freebsd.org)
Heiko Eiszfeldt (heiko@hexco.de) for making libedc_ecc available (needed to write RAW data sectors).
MAILING LISTS
If you want to actively take part on the development of wodim, you may
join the developer mailing list via this URL:
https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31006
The mail address of the list is: debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
AUTHORS
wodim is currently maintained as part of the cdrkit project by its developers. Most of the code and this manual page was originally written by:
Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany
This application is a spinoff from the original program "cdrecord" delivered in the cdrtools package [1] created by Joerg Schilling, who
deserves the most credits for its success. However, he is not involved into the development of this spinoff and therefore he shall not be made
responsible for any problem caused by it. Do not refer to this application as "cdrecord", do not try to get support for wodim by contacting
the original authors.
Additional information can be found on:
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debburn/
If you have support questions, send them to
debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
If you have definitely found a bug, send a mail to this list or to
submit@bugs.debian.org
writing at least a short description into the Subject and "Package:
cdrkit" into the first line of the mail body.
SOURCES
[1] Cdrtools 2.01.01a08 from May 2006, http://cdrecord.berlios.de
Version 2.0 wodim(1)