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Format: <string in about requester> = <version string(s)> - <List of changes> MakeCD V3.0 = MakeCD 3.22 (19.12.97) makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997) ReadWrite.module 11.23 (07.01.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_MMC_ATAPI.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Panasonic.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Sony.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_ATAPI.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_NEC.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_Plextor.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_ROM.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_Sony.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) CD_Toshiba.driver 10.24 (20.12.97) - disc-at-once - indices (not always possible in track-at-once) - rewrote and enhanced GUI - renamed SCSI drivers - new settings - AHI support - Formating a CD-RW is much more flexible now: can delete session only, remove fixation, ... - ISO image creation: a file with a list of filenames can be used to specify files that are included in the image - MS-DOS boot options: MakeCD can create ISO images for CD-Rs booting MS-DOS on a PC now. - JVC/Teac driver: mode 2 writing (without form) might work now - CD_ATAPI.driver: Some drives incorrectly reported "wrong track type" errors when reading CDDA. - Bugfix: Left and right audio channel should no longer be swapped when using Amiga audio. - Bugfix: User aborts were ignored during writing if the IO error handling was set to "Ignore" or "Pad". MakeCD V3.1: MakeCD 3.27 (23.01.98) makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997) ReadWrite.module 12.26 (23.01.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Sony.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_NEC.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_Plextor.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_ROM.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_Sony.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 11.31 (23.01.98) ***************** SCSI and IO changes ********************** - Read speed can be reduced for data tracks, too. - slightly improved generic SCSI handling - SCSI driver now choose supported write command automatically. This makes writing with Panasonic 7502 and HP 7500+ possible. - recognize more drives - MMC driver supports Panasonic/Matsushita 7502 now. However, this drive has several problems (at least with firmware V3.02 - V3.05 is available, but untested): * It often forgets the correct contents of the CD-R. E.g. "Update" after writing and fixation in test mode makes it forget the fixation, but not the tracks. Reinsert the CD-R in such a case. This prevents "write after test" writing. * It sometimes reads wrong track types from a CD-R (e.g. mode 2 instead of audio). * ISRCs in DAO don't work at the moment. Make sure your projects don't contain any, otherwise you will get an "Illegal field in command descriptor error". This might be fixed soon. * In DAO mixed CDs have to be copied with raw data. The drive cannot handle the different block sizes MakeCD uses. If you try to use cooked data you might get a "buffer underrun" between data and audio tracks. V3.1 will select raw data if you instruct MakeCD to choose automatically by using data mode "writer". * Mode 2, form 1 does not work in TAO. * In TAO gaps between tracks of different types are too short. - Bugfix: TOC type was chosen incorrectly for DAO if raw data was written, resulting in wrong medium type and not working PSX copies. This also caused Philips/Ricoh/Plextor writers to report a wrong mode for the mode 2 data track. - Bugfix: although none given, Philips/Ricoh wrote medium catalog number both in TAO and DAO. This made PSX copies unusable in a PlayStation. - Bugfix: data encoding for CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver was wrong, resulting in trashed DAO CD-Rs. - Bugfix (Philips, Plextor): didn't work with all controllers - Bugfix: removing the source CD while MakeCD was preparing for index scanning trapped MakeCD in a loop until the CD was inserted again. - Bugfix: CDR_Sony.driver couldn't write audio tracks. - SCSI error detection failed for JVC/Teac drives when connected to some controllers. This prevented writing to empty CD-Rs. - Yamaha CDR10x couldn't always write all tracks with cybppc.device V44.2, because this device doesn't report some essential sense codes. Enhanced workaround. - Bugfix: priority of conversion process was not always increased - Bugfix: MMC driver still knew Ricoh MP6200S. - MMC/ATAPI: support for writing mode 2 with block size 2332; enabled only for Sony 928E, because mode 2 with 2336 didn't work there. Not tested completely with Sony 928E yet. If only mode 2 writing fails for a MMC/ATAPI writer than this optional mode is not implemented. For known drives like the Sony 928E MakeCD selects a substitute automatically, but not generally, because PSX copies might be less compatible in this mode. You can enforce this workaround by setting a environment variable with "setenv MAKECD_MODE2_MIXED". If it works only this way, please tell Patrick. - MMC/ATAPI: $30 and $C are recognizes as buffer underruns, too. - Bugfix: CDs with two consecutive data tracks of the same type were not copied properly (e.g. video CDs). - Bugfix: Adding pause blocks to a ISO image that was written online was not possible. - MakeCD now adds some blocks to a created ISO image to compensate for read errors that might occur at the end (but never did so far - only the new Panasonic 7502 might trash the last two blocks). - Renamed CDR_MMC_ATAPI.driver to CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver because of the confusion caused by the "ATAPI" in the name. ATAPI and MMC (Multi Media Command set defined by SCSI 3) are so similar that only ome driver is sufficient to cover both. ************************* GUI changes ******************************** - Several QuickHelps were rewritten. - ISO image source file requester offers pattern gadgets and shows .info by default. - MakeCD can execute several user selectable commands on different occasions, e.g. to play sounds. If a command is not set, MakeCD flashes the screen instead to draw the intention to requesters. - MakeCD now indicates more clearly when the write window is idle again. - Track option gadgets are disabled if no track exists. - Track options window is opened after adding a new track. - Bugfix: changing tracks while pausing audio playing is possible now. - Bugfix: lock on base dir was not freed if the advanced options window was open when exiting the program. - Bugfix: Pausing audio playing did not always work properly, and volume and filter were reset at the beginning of each new track. - Bugfix: "-" could be entered in medium catalog number gadget, although it is an illegal character MakeCD V3.1a: MakeCD 3.33 (12.02.98) makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997) ReadWrite.module 13.28 (12.02.98) SCSISupport.module 12.21 (12.02.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Sony.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_NEC.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_Plextor.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_ROM.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_Sony.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 12.40 (12.02.98) ***************** SCSI and IO changes ********************** - Bugfix CDR_Yamaha_CDR10x: DAO writing of cooked data + audio was broken. - Bugfix CDR_Panasonic: writing of audio was broken and the changed generic SCSI handling might have caused a worse performance. - Sony 928E: the drive didn't read mode 2 correctly, but with the new raw mode 2 reading it works now. Writing of mode 2 + audio now works, too. - Panasonic 7502: the tray is opened and closed to make the drive forget tracks written in test mode (necessary because just turning off the test mode confused this drive). With the Commodore scsi.device writing was aborted due to "bad status" errors although writing seemed to work fine. This is ignored now, but not completely tested yet. - Bugfix Philips CDD522: choosing speeds > 2 was not caught by the driver but caused an error requester. - Bugfix (SCSI3): ISRCs were written incorrectly in DAO - Bugfix: MakeCD might have got the track starts and lengths wrong by a factor of 2 or 4 if the source drive didn't use 2048 bytes as default block size or was set to this value by some other application. - CD_Toshiba.driver couldn't read audio tracks after reading a raw data track (it failed already for the first block). - improved index scanning to make it more robust - added some more drive IDs (see Compatibility.guide in case your drive is still not known) - Workaround: mode 2 tracks might have been recognized as mode 1 when writing in DAO with raw data. The relevant part of the track is okay and a PSX copy actually works in a PlayStation nonetheless. The reason are probably the missing checksums in the gap before the data track. - Workaround for mode 2 reading problems (see "MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW" below). - SCSI3/ATAPI Workaround "MAKECD_MODE2_MIXED" was renamed to "MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED". - Workaround for PPC SCSI and fixation/repair/format problems: cybppc.device with version < 44.36 cancels all SCSI commands automatically that are not returned by the drive in a certain amount of time. This is done to prevent lockups of the SCSI bus, but it also aborted some of the commands that are used for CD writing and really go on for a while, the most common one probably being fixation. Formating, repair and DAO might also be affected. MakeCD now applies a workaround for this problem by making the drive return the command immediately and querying the drive until it is ready again. However, it depends on the drive and on the command whether this is possible or not. For fixation this immediate response is only supported by SCSI3/ATAPI, Philips, Plextor/Ricoh and Yamaha drives, but not by JVC/Teac, Panasonic/Matsushita or Sony drives (unless they use the SCSI3/ATAPI driver). It is not supported by any drive for the repair or format commands. This workaround is only used for the cybppc.device, because not all other controllers would handle this correctly (the dracoscsi.device crashes when fixating with a Philips CDD2600 this way). ********************* GUI changes ************************** - CONTEXT SENSITIVE AMIGAGUIDE: Pressing HELP over a gadget opens the AmigaGuide documentation at the corresponding node. However, this is not possible with the V2.5 English documentation and the new translation is not ready yet. - MakeCD now allows the frequency of AIFF to be off by upto 10%, because not every system is able to produce exactly 44.1kHz. BE WARNED: MakeCD does not adapt the frequency, it just assumes it was 44.1kHz. Playing a sample with a frequency that is 10% too high or low already sounds quite awful! - Bugfix: text for publisher field in ISO image was wrong in some cases - Bugfix: manually jumping between tracks during audio playing still forgot the current settings for low pass filter and volume. - Bugfix: updating from final TAO to DAO was not possible with the menu item "Projects/Registration..." - MakeCD is more intelligent when choosing the best data format if you don't override this choice yourself by choosing "raw" or "cooked" explicitely: some drives like the Panasonic 7502 (firmeware 3.02) have problems when copying CDs with cooked data, so MakeCD uses raw data by default. However, if your source is an ISO image than cooked is used as MakeCD couldn't convert this to raw. - If speed cannot be set, then the speed gadgets are empty now and no longer set to the unused value. - Fix for problems with saving the settings. This might have failed after fixing the icon position of MakeCD if the Workbench protected the MakeCD.info from writing. - fixed some English texts MakeCD V3.1a - update 1: CD_Toshiba 12.41 (16.02.98) - Bugfix CD_Toshiba: the fix for the "audio after raw" problem made things worse. Audio reading now didn't work at all with at least one drive :-( MakeCD V3.1a - update 2 (available as public beta only): ReadWrite.module 13.32 public beta (18.03.98) SCSISupport.module 12.22 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Sony.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_NEC.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_Plextor.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_ROM.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_Sony.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98) - Setting speed with SCSI3/ATAPI is more sophisticated now and also checks the real speed used by the drive. This method solves problems with Plextor PX-426S and 2x with Ricoh MP6200S. Note that the Ricoh seems to be unable to write CD-RW in single speed at all. - Added raw encoding: now cooked data can be written to drives only supporting raw data in DAO, e.g. an ISO image can be written in DAO to a CDD2600. However, this conversion demands very much computing power and is even on a 060 hardly fast enough to keep up with 4x. The GUI definetely has to be changed to warn of that, and as this is not implemented yet the encoding feature is still disabled by default. It has to be enabled by setting the environment variable MAKECD_ALLOW_ENCODING. - The problem with reading the first blocks of a raw DAO copy in some drives should be fixed now. - Added some drive IDs and disabled session fixation in DAO for Ricoh 1420/ Plextor PX-24C because these drives don't support that. - According to the Pioneer documentation modern Pioneer drives (like DR-U12X and DR-U24X) don't support speed selection at all, therefore they are now only recognised by the CD_Sony.driver, which doesn't set speed. - DAO was disabled for the HP 7100+ because firmware 1.x didn't implement it. However, we have been told that it was added with firmware 2.x to the HP 7100+ and the similar Philips CDD3610. DAO is now allowed by MakeCD again, but it hasn't been tested with either of these drives yet. - DAO is disabled for some drives that haven't implemented it. This avoids SCSI errors when trying to use it with such drives. However, for tests with newer firmware versions DAO can be enabled again by setting the environment variable MAKECD_ALLOW_DAO. - The priority of read, write and conversion process is increased when doing critical work. The default priority is 6, because the console.device is doing CPU consuming work at priority 5. These defaults can be changed by setting the environment variables MAKECD_INC_PRI_[READ|WRITE|CONV], but usually there should be no need to do that. - Invalid status errors that are reported by the combination A3000 SCSI + Panasonic 7502 are finally ignored properly, so data (= mode 1) works now. Audio never caused this invalid status errors. However, mode 2 is not working because the SCSI bus locks completely. - CD_ATAPI can (and should) be used to read CDs with the Sony 928E. - No CD_ driver tries to read session infos any more - this was not used for the source drive and sometimes seemed to have caused problems. - Automatic "IO Error" handling didn't work properly. Now the real errors are always reported, too. Write errors are no longer ignored automatically. However, for read errors that lead to an automatic abort the text still says "User abort". - Bugfix: potential memory trashing with the READ_MODE2_RAW workaround. - Bugfix: using delete mode "immediately" with DAO caused an internal error. - "Write after test" didn't work properly with drives using the open/close tray method (Panasonic 7502). - Bugfix: under a certain timing the amount of filled bytes in the MakeCD buffer could have been displayed as a large number and 100%. - Bugfix: SCSI errors were ignored after one command (only happened with Plextor PX-624C in one case). MakeCD V3.1b - MakeCD 3.33 (12.02.98) makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997) ReadWrite.module 13.33 (08.04.98) SCSISupport.module 12.22 (08.04.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Sony.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_NEC.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_Plextor.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_ROM.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_Sony.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 12.47 (08.04.98) all changes from public beta above and: - Bugfix: converting from raw to cooked data could cause memory trashing. - Added fallback in mode 2 recognition to raw block reading => mode 2 should be recognized by some more drives. - Allowed CD_Plextor.driver for Pioneer drives again, because at least one user was able to set the speed with his DR-U12X (firmware 1.06 1996/10/), although the documentation said that this drive always reads at maximum speed. - Teac 56S is no longer fixed to CD_ATAPI.driver, because audio reading didn't always work. MakeCD V3.2 - MakeCD 3.59 (10.07.98) makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ReadWrite.module 15.53 (10.07.98) SCSISupport.module 14.26 (10.07.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Sony.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CD_NEC.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CD_ROM.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.72 (10.07.98) ***************** SCSI and IO changes ********************** - *** DAO for JVC/Teac *** This is the recommended way of writing CD-Rs with the JVC drives. It's less error prone than the stop-and-go writing in TAO, and therefore TAO has to be regarded as being unsupported. Mode 2 writing in TAO has never been tested, but works in DAO. DAO also solves the TAO problem of CD players stopping at the gap between tracks. ISRC/Medium Catalog Number are not supported by at least the JVC XR-W2010 with firmware V1.51 and errors when trying to use them are silently ignored. At least the Philips CDD2600 always only sees the first session of a DAO-CD-R written with JVC XR-W2010 V1.51, even though "Fixate: Session" was used and other drives (JVC itself, Yamaha CDR100) find the next session(s). Could only be fixed by JVC or Philips. - MakeCD now reads mono and stereo audio data in 8 or 16 bit and with any frequency. They can be transformed to stereo, 16 bit, 44.1kHz on-the-fly, but frequency resampling requires a fast CPU. The following audio file formats are supported: * AIFF * AIFC (only uncompressed) * MAUD (uncompressed, u-law, a-law) * WAV (only uncompressed) * MPEG-A (mpega.library from Stephane TAVENARD has to be installed) * Samplitude HDP (only 44.1kHz!) - MPEG-A: recognition of this file type cannot be done with 100% certainty. It takes a long time to find that a normal image file is not MPEG-A, and sometimes some are even recognized as MPEGA-A although they aren't. Therefore MakeCD is no longer testing if a file that has a corresponding ".CDT" (i.e. was originally written by MakeCD itself) or has the suffix ".cdda" or ".raw" is MPEG-A. You cannot compress the image files any more without renaming them or deleting the .CDT file, but otherwise you are strongly encouraged to leave the .CDT file as it is or to use one of the suffices to mark CDDA! If you have problems with MPEG-A recognition, then please contact the author of the mpega.library, as the recognition is completely done by this library. - MakeCD also writes different audio formats. This is selected by using appropriate suffices for the image filenames: AIFF: .aiff, .aif AIFC: .afc, .aifc MAUD: .maud WAVE: .wav, .wave All data is always uncompressed, 16bit, stereo, 44.1kHz. - Some drives allow to write more than the nominal capacity of data in DAO. This is probably possible by bending some rules in CD-ROM/CD-R standards. You may use this "feature" now by ignoring the warning that MakeCD issues if space is not sufficient, but be warned: your drive may report errors. Yamaha CDR10x doesn't support this. CDD2600 allows writing of any amount of data, but does no check itself at all. Instead, writing fails at the end. - Changed generic SCSI handling: MakeCD was using redundant commands that might have avoided certain timing problems with some systems (e.g. Philips CDD2600 + Phase 5 SCSI kit + audio reading). Unfortunately this also seemed to increase the likelihood of SCSI problems on unstable systems (e.g. reported for Fastlane). Now these redundant commands are only used when reading audio from Philips drives. If you think MakeCD is less stable or audio quality decreased in V3.2, then use "setenv MAKECD_COMPLEX_SCSI_IO=1" to go back to the previous behaviour and report if this helps. As before, "setenv MAKECD_SIMPLE_SCSI_IO=1" avoids unnecessary commands completely. - CD_Sony and CD_Plextor were merged, because the only difference was the ability to set speed with CD_Plextor. This ability is now tested automatically, so there's no need anymore to select the correct driver. Should this test fail, then you can fix this ability with MAKECD_SONY_PLEXTOR_SPEED_NO and MAKECD_SONY_PLEXTOR_SPEED_YES. - Raw encoding (calculating error correction codes and checksums) is enabled, but there is a warning about the high CPU demands. One choice in this requester disables the warning permanently. Raw encoding is necessary to write ISO images in DAO to drives like the Philips CDD2600, Ricoh MP6200S and Ricoh 1420 that only support raw data in DAO. - TAO + same source/target + "Write Tracks": you can avoid swapping source and target disc for every track now. If you choose "Delete image: after CD/never" instead of "immediately", then MakeCD will copy these tracks to images first, because you need the space for all images at once anyway. "Delete image: immediately" can still be used to copy a CD one track at a time (in case you don't have enough HD space). - Teac 55S: sometimes the drive reports an empty CD if there are read errors when the drive specific commands are used; MakeCD recognizes this now and uses the standard command in this case. - Plextor PX-412: the BLOCK jumper may be set now. This helped to avoid SCSI problems with a CyberSCSI controller and might help on other systems, too. This helps because this jumper not only changes the default block size but also reduces the peak transfer rate from 10MB/s to 5MB/s. - Mitsumi 2600TE/2800TE: the MAKECD_MODE2_WRITE_MIXED workaround is now enabled by default, because the normal method of writing with 2336 bytes is not supported by the drive. Workaround for crash during fixation. Many thanks to Eyetech for providing their EZWriter kit (A1200 + Mitsumi CR-2801TE) as test environment! - This workaround will be selected automatically now for all unknown drives. - CD_Atapi: workaround for NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282 V3.05 - Classic Squirrel: Some SCSI devices don't set scsi_Actual correctly. In this case MakeCD is adding warnings to the internal log, which may slow down the reading/writing if they cause every read/write command to be logged. This happened with the Classic Squirrel that seems to return only transfer lengths that are a multiple of 512, even if some other amount of data was transfered. These warnings are now always turned off for squirrelscsi.device. If you have another SCSI device that has this problem, then "setenv MAKECD_NO_LENGTH_WARNING=1". NTB: not all of the warnings are harmful! When reading the buffer is larger than the transferred data. - Philips CDD2000/2600: writing indices in TAO is now optional and disabled by default, because the command used to setup the indices seems to be more prone to a SCSI lock-up. Use "setenv MAKECD_ALLOW_TAO_INDICES=1" if you want to use this feature again, but be warned... - Bugfix CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI: "cooked data" in DAO caused wrong buffer underrun messages if a "negative pause" was used to get pregap data from the source track. Unfortunately "format of the writer" was "cooked data" for all drives but Panasonic 7502. - Bugfix: errors after writing the tracks or the session were not reported - this could have hidden the fact the drive didn't write the CD-R correctly, e.g. due to medium errors. - Bugfix CDR_Panasonic: 1x and 2x speed couldn't be set. - Bugfix: reading didn't proceed in the special case of direct copying of a audio CD in DAO, lead-in data generated for drive (e.g. Philips CDD2600), buffer larger than 20MB and "Fill Buffer completely" enabled. - Bugfix (at least CDR_Philips_2600): a CD-R that had been filled completely (e.g. by ignoring a warning about insufficient space in TAO) was reported as being fixated even if it wasn't. Fixation was still possible, though. - Bugfix (at least CDR_Philips_2600): "Write after Test" in DAO might have failed with a SCSI error after the successful simulated write and before starting the real write. - Bugfix: "Ignore" in the "Incomplete image file" requester didn't work properly when creating several image files at once. - Bugfix: reading/writing project and .CDT files with no indices might have trashed memory. - Bugfix: scanning ISO tracks with a directory with many (>5000) files could have failed - When writing in TAO without any fixation, MakeCD now assumes you are going to fix the CD and not only the session. This avoids an unnecessary warning. - Source drive is reset properly after scanning for indices. - Added fallback in mode 2 recognition to raw block reading => mode 2 should be recognized by some more drives. - When aborting writing after a read error caused a write error, the write error was reported and not the read error (happened only with JVC DAO). - Read errors at the very end of an audio CD (the last 1/3 second) are ignored automatically. Many Toshibas had problems reading the last block. - If your writer doesn't update properly after a test write, then "setenv MAKECD_UPDATE_EJECT=1" chooses eject/insert as the method to do the update. - To avoid problems with the maximum filename length of the FS ".CDT" files get shorter filenames now if necessary and another suffices are replaced. - MAKECD_NO_WRITE_LOG disables logging of write process during time critical sections. ********************* GUI changes ************************** - ** NEW: AIFF-CD *** - a file format that allows you to store all the data defining an audio CD or a mixed mode CD in a single file. Programs not knowing the extensions will still be able to use the audio data, but this format is especially useful if you have a sound editing software that knows the CD specific extensions, like Samplitude. Then you can setup your audio CD including indices and tracks with the advanced features of the audio editing software and write with MakeCD, or copy a CD into a AIFF-CD file with MakeCD and edit this before writing it back to CD-R. - *** novice mode *** that hides the more advanced gadgets: audio tracks: indices, ISRC, Medium Catalog Number track options: start and length of source, pause project options: start block, audio CD start, DAO data format ISO images: all ISO/Rockridge and boot options copy/append CD: data and file format, ISRC reading and index scanning write window: transfer rates, indices - "ISO level: Amiga" is now the default value as this mode is more flexibel and CD-ROMs created this way work fine with Amiga and other systems, although some ISO 9660 rules are no longer enforced. - added track editing function to split the current track at the selected indices - error requester for invalid audio image length now allows to accept such images and to change the corresponding setting - If using image files is the default (either because the current track uses one or this gadget state was saved), this is not disabled when adding a MPEG-A image because decoding MPEG-A might be so slow that a temporary image file is required. - The MakeCD environment variables can now alternatively also be set in the tooltypes instead. They control some internal behaviour only and are not ment to be used regularly. - MakeCD now supports automatic opening of the tray/disc ejection after writing and when asking for a specific disc. This behaviour is configurable in the commands settings window. - Enhanced "audio CD start" workaround: instead of setting up a project that reads audio tracks from different positions the driver itself reads from the appropriate position to get the right data. This can be selected in the compatibility settings. - Made index scanning more robust to compensate for inexact drives. However, still the same method is used to get subcodes, so it won't solve the problem that some drives fail with a "track following" or "positioning" error. As some copies of games only work with index pause, a default index pause will be set if no scanning was done or failed. This can be selected in the "Append/Copy CD" window. - Automatically created filenames now also contain the length to get different filenames for tracks from different CDs. - The following warnings/messages will now be issued: + raw data encoding, MPEG-A decoding or frequency resampling might be too slow for on-the-fly + buffer cannot be allocated completely + writing in DAO and trying to delete an image file immediately Reactions for each can (optionally) be saved permanently in the requester. - ISO image path is now always cleared when disabling it and set to the path derived from the source when enabling it again. - more detailed explanation why type of image file is not suitable - MakeCD now saves the settings in the icon it was started with. The main program doesn't have to be copied to use different settings for different occasions, it's sufficient to create some project icon that has MakeCD as default project. If the new icon hasn't got any settings, the main program's settings are used as default until they are saved for the first time. - "CD_COPY" as tooltype or shell switch causes MakeCD to go directly to the CD copy window. From there "Exit Window" and "Setup Project" still lead back to the main window. This tooltype is used in CDCopy.info to get a simple "separate" CD copy program... - "USE_MAIN_PREFS" causes MakeCD to change tooltypes in the program's icon when saving settings instead of the icon it was started with. This is used in CDCopy.info already so that settings only have to be done once for the whole program and stay consistent. - All other windows are closed while the write window is open. - Selection of new audio position during playing was improved (now waits until value hasn't been changed for a short while before jumping). - MakeCD doesn't require valid base dir to open settings any more. - "Copy CD" achieved exact track starts in TAO by truncating audio tracks. This was not obvious and not always desired, therefore this behaviour is now configurable in the "Copy CD" window. - The write window and the abort requester now both remind of the current activity (writing for real, in test mode, not to CD-R at all). It is also much more verbose about what MakeCD is doing and even predicts what actions will happen after "Start" and how much time is still required. - Write window displays message while unlocking filesystems and before closing the window - some filesystems sometimes lock up MakeCD at this stage, for unknown reasons. - The maximum buffer size is not updated after writing even though the memory is already freed - this is not quite correct, but less confusing. - Playing a single track now starts immediately because no track selection is necessary and the other parameters can be easily changed while playing. - MakeCD now distinguishes between "user abort" and "automatic abort as requested by IO error setting" in messages. - amigaguide.library is no longer essential to run MakeCD. - Bugfix: file requester for CDTV/CD32 boot file didn't work properly. - Bugfix: menu item "Update writer" didn't work. - Bugfix: menu item "Fix CD-R" only fixated the session MakeCD 3.2a: MakeCD 3.62 (12.08.98) makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ReadWrite.module 15.57 (12.08.98) SCSISupport.module 14.26 (12.08.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Sony.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CD_NEC.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CD_ROM.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.75 (12.08.98) - **8SVX samples*** are now imported in mono and stereo as long as they are pure samples, i.e. without repititions. - bugfix: "Adapt Audio Start" in the hardware compatibilities was not saved correctly. - Filtering .CDT in the image file requester is no longer done with a simple pattern but with a more intelligent function, because for long file names the suffix is truncated and not recognized. - Some drives had problems during scanning of the SCSI bus if the CD_Sony_Plextor.driver was installed. - bugfix: jumping within MPEG-A images during playing was only possible in the first ~40min of each image - bugfix: getting the length of .WAV files without FACT chunk broke in a last minute fix for invalid .WAV headers :-/ - CD_ATAPI.driver: reading didn't work with drives any more that didn't support selecting the block size. - ".iso" can also be used to prevent the (false) recognition of images as MPEG-A. - bugfix CDR_Ricoh_6200/CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver: erasing a track on a CD-RW was _clearing_ the track, i.e. overwriting its contents with zero, and not actually _removing_ it as documented in MakeCD. BTW: if erasing a CD-RW doesn't work, turn off the global test mode again as it is by default - the test mode setting in the write window is set and saved independently. - bugfix DAO + session fixation: MakeCD overestimated the required space by 30s and therefore issued a warning in cases where it wasn't necessary. - bugfix: conversion of strange frequencies left some random bytes at the end of the sample uncleared, which resulted in a short clicking noise. - workaround for MAUD: different interpretations are used for the field defining the length of the sample. Unfortunately, MakeCD had been made compliant with a software that set this field incorrectly and therefore read only one half of correct samples. The real length is now recognized in both cases and correct MAUD images are generated. MakeCD V3.2a, update (beta): ReadWrite.module 15.58 public beta (12.09.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.78 public beta (12.09.98) - workaround for 8SVX files with invalid number of samples in header - CD_Toshiba: the driver now tries to enable a 4x audio read mode that is supported by some Toshiba drives, e.g. XM5701B, XM6201B, and XM3801B. Reducing the speed for normal data tracks to 1x is also possible. - CD_Toshiba/CD_Plextor: the environment variable for enabling/preventing speed selection have been changed to MAKECD_SPEED_NO and MAKECD_SPEED_YES. - bugfix: byte order of raw data files could have been reversed, completely trashing data tracks in DAO. MakeCD V3.2b public beta 1: MakeCD 3.64 public beta (09.11.98) ReadWrite.module 15.58 public beta (09.11.98) SCSISupport.module 14.27 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Sony.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CD_NEC.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CD_ROM.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.79 public beta (09.11.98) - changed module initialisation - bug fix: from the Shell MakeCD had to be started with the current directory being the directory with the program, otherwise saving prefs was impossible. - JVC/Teac: avoid zero length pauses, which were not handled correctly by the Teac 55S. This causes MakeCD to lock after filling the buffer and might have been responsible for the invalid mixed mode CD-Rs, too. - Teac 55S: workaround for the drive returning an invalid and random start block. This failure made it impossible to write multisession CD-Rs or to read such a track. - bugfix: changing the code for padding audio samples broke the padding in some other cases, resulting in glitches at the end of tracks. - Philips CDD3600: support for TAO; update after simulated write with ejecting caddy as it doesn't work without; audio scanning. - Audio scanning now also recognises tracks without pause correctly. - Shortened filenames created by "Copy/Append CD": AudioN = AudioNormal, AudioP = AudioPreamphasize - Enabled #?.cdt as reject pattern again for incomplete ASL replacements that don't use the filter function that was (and is) provided by MakeCD. MakeCD V3.2b public beta 2: MakeCD 3.65 public beta (23.12.98) makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ReadWrite.module 15.58 public beta (23.12.98) SCSISupport.module 14.27 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Sony.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CD_NEC.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CD_ROM.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.82 public beta (23.12.98) - bug fix GUI: size of project was not updated after appending another project - Yamaha CRW4001: writing in DAO is possible now, too (I think it did before already, but perhaps a more recent firmware broke this?). - Yamaha CRW4416S: workaround for invalid mode 2 recognition - Philips CDD522: writing in TAO reported an after each track, which is now avoided MakeCD V3.2b public beta 3: MakeCD 3.66 public beta (17.01.99) [ makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ] ReadWrite.module 15.59 public beta (17.01.99) SCSISupport.module 14.27 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Sony.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CD_NEC.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CD_ROM.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.83 public beta (17.01.99) - GUI: reread CD-R contents after fixation/repair/format only if action was not canceled. - added recognition of Plextor PX40 and PX-R820T and guessed strings for new Yamaha drives - mpega.library for WarpOS: workaround for the library's broken IO functions; MakeCD uses asyncio.lib now (does not improve performance unless the source MPEG-A is on an extremly slow device). - bugfix: downsampling of audio data broke recently MakeCD V3.2b public beta 4: MakeCD 3.67 public beta 4 (10.02.99) [ makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ] ReadWrite.module 15.59 public beta 4 (10.02.99) SCSISupport.module 14.27 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Sony.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CD_NEC.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CD_ROM.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.84 public beta 4 (10.02.99) - JVC XR-W2042: added recognition and support for erasing CD-RW - Mitsumi CR-4801TE: added recognition and enabled workaround for fixation crash - Mitsumi ATAPI/SCSI3 drives: recent firmware revisions finally implement cue-sheet-DAO, so MakeCD allows DAO again. If you get the error "MODE_SELECT6: Illegal Field in Parameter List", see below for an explanation and update the firmware. - The workaround for crashes after fixation with the Mitsumi ATAPI drives can now be enabled by setting the tooltype MAKECD_MITSUMI_FIXATE. - Plextor PX-W4420T: added recognition - GUI: fixed some underscore clashes in the English gadget texts, enabled more than 99:99min display of total CD length MakeCD V3.2b public beta 5: MakeCD 3.67 public beta 5 (26.02.99) [ makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998) ] ReadWrite.module 15.60 public beta 5 (26.02.99) SCSISupport.module 14.28 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Sony.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CD_ATAPI.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CD_NEC.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CD_ROM.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) CD_Toshiba.driver 13.86 public beta 5 (26.02.99) - Plextor PX-R412C, PX-R820T, PX-W4220T: recent firmware revisions failed to write PSX discs correctly in DAO. MakeCD works around this problem by using a slightly different data mode. MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO enables this mode (which is on by default for the Plextor drives) and MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO_NO overrides this default (for testing purposes). - Yamaha drives: index scanning was off by two second because the firmware reports a position that was shifted by 150 blocks. MAKECD_AUDIO_MSF works around this problem by avoiding the incorrect logical block addresses. It is enabled for Yamaha drives by default. - HP CD-Writer+ 7200i: the drive does not update properly after a test write, so now the "brute force" method of ejecting the disc is used by default (MAKECD_UPDATE_EJECT). - MAKECD_RETRIES can be used to increase the number of automatic retries in case of read errors from a CD. The default is 2, because most drives do retries themselves already. - Memorex CR-622: added recognition - GUI: the buffer display was incorrect after aborting while filling the buffer. Known problems: - makecdromfs.module crashes when filenames are longer than 32 characters, as it is possible now with SFS, PFS II. There is no workaround, you have to avoid long filenames. - Not a real problem: ATAPI doesn't specify DAO, so not all ATAPI writer support it. But as we are not sure, we haven't disabled DAO in the driver for all ATAPI writers unless someone has tested it. If yours fails with the error "MODE_SELECT6: Illegal Field in Parameter List" when trying to write in DAO, then it doesn't and Patrick would appreciate a short notice. Please note: some companies claim to support DAO, although the drive does not support the real cue-sheet-DAO used by MakeCD, but only "raw writing". "raw writing" produces the same result (a continously written disc), but puts the load of preparing the data on the host computer and the application. It is not supported by MakeCD yet, but may be added later. - Teac 50S: discs with data + audio tracks cannot be written in DAO (writing fails with error code $5/$CC). - Panasonic 7502 V4.10: audio subcodes are incorrectly written in one case, but others were not able to reproduce this. Solution: avoid indices and index pauses if you have this problem, this works. To achieve this, set the "default index pause" to 0 in the "Copy CD" window and disable index scanning. - Remaining time during writing is sometimes completely wrong due to the way this estimation is done. That's just the way it works. - JVC XR-W2010 V1.51: ISRC/Medium Catalog Number are not supported, therefore errors when trying to use them are silently ignored. At least the Philips CDD2600 always only sees the first session of a DAO-CD-R written with JVC XR-W2010 V1.51, even though "Fixate: Session" was used and other drives (JVC itself, Yamaha CDR100) find the next session(s). Could only be fixed by JVC or Philips. - Before closing the write window MakeCD hangs on some systems. This is caused by the filesystem that MakeCD locked to get exclusive access to the hardware. Don't mount filesystems on your writer or unmount them before using MakeCD. - The Sony 928E sometimes returns garbage values when reading the contents of a CD with the CD writer specific commands. This doesn't happen when the standard commands are used, so the CD_ATAPI driver should be used for reading from the Sony 928E. - workaround for mode 2 (2336 bytes) reading problems: Some drives deliver invalid data with this block size (Sony 928E), others report checksum errors although they shouldn't use the checksums (Plextor PX-20TS). In both cases reading raw data still works, so now MakeCD can read mode 2 tracks raw and throws away the unnecessary bytes if necessary. This workaround is enabled only for the Sony 928E, but not for any other drive, because some drives might read raw data slower and the additional processing requires more CPU time. On slow computers with fast drives the computer might perhaps even appear to be locked. If your drive has similar problems you can enable this workaround by creating the environment variable "MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW" (e.g. with "setenv MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW=1"). Please tell Patrick if your drive only reads mode 2 properly with this workaround. - Panasonic 7501: writing mode 2 fails with an error. As I haven't found a way around that mode 2 in spite of several different attempts this will stay this way, i.e. writing mode 2 will never be supported by CDR_Panasonic.driver. - Triton has some problems when you keep the cursor keys pressed to move within a listview: it might cause MakeCD to open windows. It also doesn't calculate the width of the data mode gadget correctly. - Ricoh MP6200S (V1.00): doesn't support medium catalog number in DAO, swallows ISRC of first audio track in DAO - The amount of free blocks is not perfectly correct, because writers report different values depending on what was already written. Sometimes gaps are included and sometimes not. This causes an inaccuracy of upto 3 seconds. The end of CD-R check is not affected, though. - The Ricoh MP6200S doesn't simulate formating. Therefore MakeCD doesn't issue the formating command at if test mode is enabled. - Writing audio with preemphasize is not possible with CDR400 (upto V1.0d). Yamaha didn't respond to my bug report, so I implemented a fallback to normal audio. - Yamaha CDR400 sometimes panics after a buffer underrun and doesn't stop writing. Yamaha could not help with this problem yet. - Ricoh sometimes doesn't read contents properly. Exact reason/solution unknown, but turning disconnect off and SCSI bus reset help. - dracoscsi.device SCSI direct still doesn't work properly. You must have enough free memory in your first memory module or a 32MB module in the first socket, otherwise the dracoscsi.device will fail and probably cause crashes or read errors. The same rules apply to every other software doing SCSI direct.