[MIG]

First a big thanks to Lightning UK for providing this very good program for free (I really like razor blade alike tools!)

1) ImgBurn fails to assign a CD-ROM profile to (SCSI only ?) CD-ROM / CD-RW in read mode:


Trying to read the CD yields a SCSI error:

I 15:06:53 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!
I 15:06:53 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195 : Service Pack 4)
I 15:06:53 Total Physical Memory: 523.760 KB  -  Available: 321.420 KB
I 15:06:54 Initialising SPTI...
I 15:06:54 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 15:06:54 Found 1 CD-ROM, 1 CD-RW, 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW and 1 DVD±RW/RAM!
I 16:13:30 Operation Started!
I 16:13:30 Source Device: [2:5:0] PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.05 (T:) (SCSI)
I 16:13:30 Source Media Type: Unknown
I 16:13:30 Source Media Sectors: 118.233
I 16:13:30 Source Media Volume Identifier: RTM
I 16:13:30 Source Media Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.52 (03/09/2004 TM)
I 16:13:30 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660; Joliet
I 16:13:30 Destination File: D:\RTM.ISO
I 16:13:30 Destination Free Space: 3.909.480.448 bytes (3.817.852 KB) (3.728 MB) (3 GB)
I 16:13:30 Destination File System: NTFS
I 16:13:30 File Splitting: Auto
I 16:13:30 Reading Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 118232)
E 16:13:38 Failed to Read Sector 0 - Invalid Command Operation Code
E 16:13:38 Failed to Read Sectors!
E 16:13:38 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:08
E 16:13:38 Average Read Rate: N/A - Maximum Read Rate: N/A

Of course the UltraPlex 40 can read this CD:

E:\H2I>h2cdimage.exe 2:5:0 250 -i
H2cdimage -- by Harald Bögeholz / c't Magazin für Computertechnik
Version 1.8, Copyright (C) 2005 Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
ASPI geladen. Anzahl der Adapter: 4
Gerät: PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS  1.05  (05 80 02 02 33 00 00 18)
Gesamt: 118233 Sektoren, Sektorgröße: 2048
Lege Image-Datei '250.iso' an.
Lege Flag-Datei '250.h2i' an.
100.0 % gelesen, 0 fehlen, 100.0 % probiert. Lese #118233
118233 Sektoren erfolgreich gelesen.
Damit ist das Image vollstaendig.

I 16:18:35 Operation Started!
I 16:18:35 Source Device: [1:0:0] PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-320A X.06 (R:) (ATA)
I 16:18:35 Source Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m22s67f)
I 16:18:35 Source Media Sectors: 118.233
I 16:18:35 Source Media Volume Identifier: RTM
I 16:18:35 Source Media Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.52 (03/09/2004 TM)
I 16:18:35 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660; Joliet
I 16:18:35 Destination File: E:\H2I\RTM.ISO
I 16:18:35 Destination Free Space: 2.471.829.504 bytes (2.413.896 KB) (2.357 MB) (2 GB)
I 16:18:35 Destination File System: NTFS
I 16:18:35 File Splitting: Auto
I 16:18:35 Reading Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 118232)
I 16:19:43 Image MD5: e9193a1e80c3dd13b66af81d4fbb9369
I 16:19:43 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:01:08
I 16:19:43 Average Read Rate: 3.477 KB/s (23.2x) - Maximum Read Rate: 4.358 KB/s (29.1x)

E:\H2I>fc /b RTM.ISO 250.iso
Comparing files RTM.ISO and 250.ISO
FC: no differences encountered

2) Imgburn log windows shrinks itself down to 1/4 screen size (from initial 1/2 size) after several starts (I am using W2K with 1280x1024 resolution).
This bug was introduced with 2.2.0.0 and can be observed in the registry:

Freshly resized = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,c4
2nd start = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,b4
3rd start = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,a4
4th start = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,94
5th start = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,84
Final = "LogWindow"=hex:00,00,00,ef,00,00,01,ff,00,00,03,22,00,00,01,14

This post has been edited by MIG: 18 May 2007 - 02:31 PM

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The Plextor drive isn't MMC compliant and that's what ImgBurn is based on.

It's the drive that's failing to report the current profile, not the program - the drive probably doesn't support the command used to get that info. That's also why the read command is failing, the drive just doesn't support it.

I expect the log window issue is due to you using large fonts or something. It certainly doesn't do that if everything is 'normal'.
The window jumps in stages so that the listview height is a multiple of the individual line height. If it's a few pixels off, it'll jump down to the next closest multiple.

[MIG]

1) Yes, the Plextor drive isn't MMC compliant but the YAMAHA CRW4260 is:

C:\Program Files\CDRTools\>cdrecord dev=2,6,0 -prcap
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a25 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg S
chilling
cdrecord: No realtime priority class possible.
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '2,6,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 6 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Device type	: Removable CD-ROM
Version		: 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info	: 'YAMAHA  '
Identifikation : 'CRW4260		 '
Revision	   : '1.0q'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC page 2A:

Does read CD-R media
Does write CD-R media
Does read CD-RW media
Does write CD-RW media
Does not read DVD-ROM media
Does not read DVD-R media
Does not write DVD-R media
Does not read DVD-RAM media
Does not write DVD-RAM media
Does support test writing

Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
Does read digital audio blocks
Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately
Does not support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording
Does read multi-session CDs
Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2
Does not read CD bar code
Does read R-W subcode information
Does return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected
Does not read raw P-W subcode data from lead in
Does return CD media catalog number
Does return CD ISRC information
Does not support C2 error pointers
Does not deliver composite A/V data

Does play audio CDs
Number of volume control levels: 256
Does support individual volume control setting for each channel
Does support independent mute setting for each channel
Does not support digital output on port 1
Does not support digital output on port 2

Loading mechanism type: tray
Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command
Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper
Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command
Is not currently in a media-locked state
Does not support changing side of disk
Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature
Does not support Individual Disk Present feature

Maximum read  speed:  1058 kB/s (CD   6x, DVD  0x)
Current read  speed:  1058 kB/s (CD   6x, DVD  0x)
Maximum write speed:   706 kB/s (CD   4x, DVD  0x)
Current write speed:   706 kB/s (CD   4x, DVD  0x)
Buffer size in KB: 2048

and ImgBurn's stat window shows the same error:


although CD reading works:

I 18:34:30 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started!
I 18:34:30 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195 : Service Pack 4)
I 18:34:30 Total Physical Memory: 523.760 KB  -  Available: 291.840 KB
I 18:34:30 Initialising SPTI...
I 18:34:30 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 18:34:31 Found 1 CD-ROM, 1 CD-RW, 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW and 1 DVD±RW/RAM!
I 18:35:02 Operation Started!
I 18:35:02 Source Device: [2:6:0] YAMAHA CRW4260 1.0q (U:) (SCSI)
I 18:35:02 Source Media Type: Unknown
I 18:35:02 Source Media Sectors: 118.231
I 18:35:02 Source Media Volume Identifier: RTM
I 18:35:02 Source Media Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.52 (03/09/2004 TM)
I 18:35:02 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660; Joliet
I 18:35:02 Destination File: E:\H2I\RTM.ISO
I 18:35:02 Destination Free Space: 3.421.274.112 bytes (3.341.088 KB) (3.262 MB) (3 GB)
I 18:35:02 Destination File System: NTFS
I 18:35:02 File Splitting: Auto
I 18:35:06 Reading Sectors... (LBA: 0 - 118230)
I 18:39:52 Image MD5: 9078566177bb510f530f9b7da0a18219
I 18:39:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:04:50
I 18:39:52 Average Read Rate: 815 KB/s (5.4x) - Maximum Read Rate: 945 KB/s (6.3x)

So I would say your program code is not clean at this point and suggest a change like old SCSI type 5 devices are always assigned CD-ROM.

2) Yes the log window from ImgBurn is jumpy on my machine but this has worked on older versions of your program(s).

This post has been edited by MIG: 18 May 2007 - 05:08 PM

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Again, all the 'Current Profile: Unknown (FAILED!)' bit means is that the 'Get Configuration' command isn't supported by the drive.

This is true of many old CD drives. Sure, I could pretend it doesn't fail, but then that doesn't really help / tell me anything.

As you can see, it doesn't really matter anyway. The program works around it when it needs to.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Getting back to the other problem... I've stuck a vmware session of XP into 120dpi and done some testing.

I've made a few changes and hopefully it looks better to you now. I certainly have no issues with the log window shrinking, but to be honest I'm not sure I ever did! (perhaps that could be a win2k specific problem?)

The log window lines and drive comboboxes now scale depending on the DPI selected - so the text isn't cut-off anymore. They are custom drawn, hence why they didn't just work by default like all the other controls.

[MIG]

It's not W2K specific, you did some changes in 2.2.0.0 which continously round down the window size to a lower limit.

Your 'old' program has a constant non shrinking log window on my machine:


and the registry entry is also different
"LogWindow"=hex:00,00,01,14,00,00,01,bf,00,00,02,d9,00,00,02,1b

This post has been edited by MIG: 18 May 2007 - 11:22 PM

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I just thought it was odd that I didn't see it happening under XP.

In any case, I'm pretty sure that whatever it was has been fixed now.

If you look at your last screenshot you'll see an empty bit of window where the listview doesn't reach the bottom of the actual form. Fix one thing, break something else... it's sod's law!

[MIG]

Yep, shit happens in real world programming, thanks for looking into it.

A final word to my problem #1, for future releases of ImgBurn I would like to see one of the following approaches:
a) remove non MMC compliant drives from the device list, so they can't be used furthermore
b) add the classic read commands for pre MMC drives

The current behaviour is IMHO inconsistent.