From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:00:48 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1320 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 29 June 2006 Number 1320 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) : Gavin Miller 2 Re: RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) : Ed Durrant 3 Sending attachments : Peter Jenkins 4 Re: Sending attachments : Ed Durrant 5 Re: RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) : mikeoc at internode.on dot net" 6 Re: Sending attachments : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:38:01 +1000 From: Gavin Miller Subject: RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) Hi All, I'm having trouble with RSJ v6.00 and my Pioneer DVD burner. (see model in subject). I can't read any sessions other than the 1st. I can't burn DAO, and copy wizard won't finalize whereas cd view will. I can concede that this drive is not as compatible as I'd like as far as DAO burning is concerned, but I do find it strange that copy wizard fails to finalize when cd view and file system will. I've updated the DVD's firmware to the latest on pioneer's web site (1.57 if I remember right). I remember someone out there mentioning they had pioneer DVD burners... so any ideas? Cheers G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:12:04 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) Hi Gavin, I have been using my Pioneer 106 (or 105 ?) for sometime with no issues what so ever. (By the way 1 in the number means bearbones OEM cheap packaging version, A means full retail with software and nice box) However .... I do not use RSJ - rather MKSISOFS and DVDDAO, the free-ware linux ported to OS/2 software. I never liked the fact that RSJ "stole" the CD-RW or DVD-RW so that it couldn't be used by the system as a normal device. I know there was a work-around and perhaps this has been addressed in version 6 - but once I set up my batch files to run these two freeware products, I simply stuck with them: Here are my CMD files for reference if you want to go this way: Firstly to create the ISO: at echo off echo FILENAME: MAKEdatadvd.cmd echo this batch file uses mkisofs2 to create an data ISO ready for ECHO DVDDAO to write to a echo DVD+-R or DVD+-RW Disk use the sister CMD file writeDVDDATA for the ECHO next step PAUSE I: CD\ IF EXIST ED-DATA.ISO THEN ERASE ED-DATA.ISO F: cd\os2util\cdrecord\cdrtools mkisofs2.exe -l -o I:\ED-DVD.ISO -v -log-file i:\burn.log I:\ED-DVD I: PAUSE :EINDE And then to write the ISO created to the DVD: at echo off echo fILENAME: writedatadvd.cmd echo this batch file uses DVDDAO to write the ISO file created using echo MAKEDATADVD.CMD to a echo DVD+-R or DVD+-RW Disk - refer to MAKEdataDVD.CMD for the first echo Step !! echo This batch file assumes the drive is at SCSI location 0,1,0 - if echo not, change this batch file ! IF NOT EXIST I:\ED-dvd.iso GOTO NOPARAM f: cd\os2util\cdrecord\dvddao dvddao.exe -d 0,1,0 --priority 3,31 -v 3 I:\ed-dvd.iso I: PAUSE EJECT J: GOTO EINDE :NOPARAM echo Required ISO file missing !! Have you run MAKEdataDVD Yet ?? PAUSE EJECT J: :EINDE You will probably see from the file - my DVD writer is drive J: and located at device location 0,1,0 (ASPI addressing). I create all the data that I wish to go onto the DVD disk in subdirectories under I\ED-DVD Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having trouble with RSJ v6.00 and my Pioneer DVD burner. (see model > in subject). I can't read any sessions other than the 1st. I can't > burn DAO, and copy wizard won't finalize whereas cd view will. I can > concede that this drive is not as compatible as I'd like as far as DAO > burning is concerned, but I do find it strange that copy wizard fails to > finalize when cd view and file system will. I've updated the DVD's > firmware to the latest on pioneer's web site (1.57 if I remember > right). I remember someone out there mentioning they had pioneer DVD > burners... so any ideas? > > Cheers > G > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:56:37 +0930 From: Peter Jenkins Subject: Sending attachments Can anyone shed some light on this little problem I have please ? I have a friend (Colin) in rural NSW on bigpond dial up probably running XP & Internet explorer I am running ecs 1.2mr + firfox 1.5 If I try to send him an email with a jpeg (41.7kb) attached or inserted he does not get the attached file/photo I can send the same email to a friend in Brisbane on bigpond who receive it OK & he can send it on to "Colin" who receives it OK, he also receives attached photos/files from he's children OK Why does "Colin" not receive it from me????? Very perplexing to a retired electrician like myself :-( (he is a retired plumber, we both went to high school together some 44-47 years ago) tia Peter at Pt Pirie -- Peter A Jenkins (AKA grandad or pj) Port Pirie South Australia PROUD USER OF A VIRUS & MALWARE FREE OPERATING SYSTEM Serenity Systems "Ecomstation" ver 1.2, the successor to IBM's os/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:08:36 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Sending attachments Peter Jenkins wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on this little problem I have please ? > I have a friend (Colin) in rural NSW on bigpond dial up probably running > XP & Internet explorer > I am running ecs 1.2mr + firfox 1.5 > If I try to send him an email with a jpeg (41.7kb) attached or inserted > he does not get the attached file/photo > I can send the same email to a friend in Brisbane on bigpond who receive > it OK & he can send it on to "Colin" who receives it OK, he also > receives attached photos/files from he's children OK > Why does "Colin" not receive it from me????? > Very perplexing to a retired electrician like myself :-( > (he is a retired plumber, we both went to high school together some > 44-47 years ago) > tia > Peter at Pt Pirie > Hi Peter, Your friend is probably not running Internet Exploder (Explorer) for his e-mail - rather OutLock (Outlook) - that is unless he is using the Bigpond webmail interface. Best option would be to get him to download and install the latest Win32 version of Mozilla Thunderbird. I suspect all will be fine then. Outlook is a 'strange' program sometimes and is best avoided. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:17:52 +1000 From: "mikeoc at internode.on dot net" Subject: Re: RSJ w/ Pioneer DVR-A09XLA (109) Ed Durrant wrote: > I never liked the fact that RSJ "stole" the CD-RW or > DVD-RW so that it couldn't be used by the system as a > normal device. I know there was a work-around and perhaps > this has been addressed in version 6 - but once I set up > my batch files to run these two freeware products, I > simply stuck with them: Hi Edm Was fixed a loooong time ago [years!]. In config.sys append a "/d" to "device = lockcdr.flt" line. Standard installation puts "/q /d" [for "quiet" as well]! Probably you also need to add "/all" to os2aspi.dmd line? Regards, Mike [from #2-eCS-Demo-CD Firefox, on old system], using default boot. When I just tried this with my own values, and DHCP confirmed activated, Firefox crashed [cleanly!] on opening, and didn't hang the system. Maybe it was because I set the desktop background on "own values"[std video resolution/depth] to "scaled" instead of "tiled", as that is what comes up there, unlike on the default which is properly configured as "scaled". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:42:22 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Sending attachments Peter Jenkins wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on this little problem I have please ? I > have a friend (Colin) in rural NSW on bigpond dial up probably > running XP & Internet explorer I am running ecs 1.2mr + firfox 1.5 If > I try to send him an email with a jpeg (41.7kb) attached or inserted > he does not get the attached file/photo I can send the same email to > a friend in Brisbane on bigpond who receive it OK & he can send it on > to "Colin" who receives it OK, he also receives attached photos/files > from he's children OK Why does "Colin" not receive it from me????? It's hard to believe that this is a software incompatibility, since mailing attached jpegs is something that people do all the time. It's true that often I get empty mail from my father when he tries to send a photo, but that's because he finds the Windows interface counterintuitive and he gets confused about how to do the attachment. That's obviously not the case for you, because you're successfully sending it to someone else. Here's something that used to catch me out with PMMail a lot. (It would probably happen also with Thunderbird, which is what I use now, but I haven't tested this.) If you attach a file _and the file is still open_ when you try to send the e-mail, the attachment doesn't happen properly. So what might well be happening is that you're viewing your photo with a picture viewer, e.g. PMView, and you try to mail that picture. What you have to do is first close the viewer, so that your picture is not on the screen any more (or open in any other way, e.g. minimized), before you send the mail. I don't know for sure whether this is the problem you're getting, but it's one thing to check. -- Peter Moylan peter at ozebelg dot org peter.moylan at optusnet dot com dot au http://www.pmoylan dot org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer reliably receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address still has about 2 months of life left. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------