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diff --git a/doc/READMEs/README.sony b/doc/READMEs/README.sony new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ee6da6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/READMEs/README.sony @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +The Sony CDU-924 was the first drive that has no hardware support +for CDROM XA2 mode 1. If you want to create a multi session disk, +you need to switch back to -data (plain CD-ROM) + +If you have a Sony drive that gives you problems with multi session disks, +please always check the following: + + For some Sony drives you may need to call wodim -multi -data + if you like to create multi-session CD's. + + Some Sony drives do not allow to write XA2 tracks with + hardware support of the drive. + +There is currently a bug in the Sony code (for _old_ non MMC drives) +of wodim that does not allow you to have different track types +in one session. + +All Sony drives that have CDUxxx type names are _old_ non MMC drives. + Here I expect that no XA support is in the firmware. + +All Sony drives that have CRXxxx type names are MMC compliant. + These drives should support XA-mode2-form1 as it is mandatory with MMC. + +NOTE: many HP CD-writers are nased on Sony OEM drives. + + +NOTE: As for 18.5.2001, a fix was introduced that prevented wodim + to do multi session with new MMC compliant Sony drives. + +--- +Eduard Bloch, based on documentation from Joerg Schilling, cdrtools package 2.01.01a08 |