Bug#688229: 688229: hack to emulate drive (was: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails with ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Thomas and other folks,



Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 16:40 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 13:03 +0200 schrieb Thomas Schmitt:

[…]

> > > Is there some way to simulate a burner to find out what happened?
> > 
> > libburn would accept burner addresses like
> >   stdio:/tmp/my_emulated_drive
> > which would behave like DVD-RAM or DVD+RW. I.e. quite different
> > from DVD-R or DVD+R. Nevertheless such an emulated drive would
> > allow to exercise the communications between libisofs and libburn,
> > as done by Brasero.
> > 
> > I do not know how to make Brasero use such a drive address.
> > Probably one would have to hack its source.
> 
> I will take a look.

And I did and came up with the attached patch. So for anyone wanting to
try it if he can reproduce the problems with this also go ahead.

It seems to even emulate the slow writing speed. ;-)

[…]


Thanks,

Paul
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