Debian and cdrecord under >2.6.8(follow up to vlok and cyber as well)

Fri Jul 1 16:39:57 EDT 2005

For me,. we have used all sorts, dvd-rom/cd-rw combos, cd-rw's, 
dvd-rw's. Is your cd-rw on /dev/hda? If so, I do recall one of the older 
2.6 kernels having a problem if the Linux system itself was on a real 
scsi system and the cd-rw was ide, the work around was to become root to 
burn. That got fixed with later kernels. I've seen all sorts. I would 
say you should try a different drive before you go changing everything. 
I don't have any in stock at the moment for you to try but I will by mid 
next week if you wanted to bring you box in. Just a thought.

JJ Neff wrote:

>I do recall that the errors I'm getting doing a disk-info in cdrdao seem to
>indicate either drive problems or Bad media.  THe TDK 48X media I've been
>usinghas worked smashingly so far on everything else and I've been trying to
>burn at like speeds of 2-6!
>
>So before I screw everything I HAVE working up, I will go buy a few types of
>CD-R  CD-RW and try those as well - If cdrdao can't even give me a disk info
>then I have to believe the media has issues in the drive.  That was why I am
>currently trying to flash the Plextor to its newest firmware.  Jorge schilling
>wrote the linux installer for that as well so if the guy has issue with the way
>linux implemented the IDE ATAPI interface I tend to think he knows what he's
>talking about.  However I'm not willing to switch to Solaris jsut to use His
>OS.
>
>I upgraded Kernel to 2.6.11 (debian latest)and will try media as I can - tell
>you how it comes out.  Glad to hear others are working fine
>
>By the by, vlok and cyber were you using DVD burners or IDE CDr burners?  I
>know my device is ATA:1,0,0 but if I try to -scanbus dev=ATA: I get hung on
>/dev/hda (a reported debian bug). I can scanbus with ATAPI or /dev/hdc but
>still not love from the recorder when trying to write,  
>
>To date 2 cds have come out of the burner  successfully in something like 50
>tries so I have to find the magic mix of /firmware/cdrecord version/media/and
>juxtaposition of mars with mercury I suppose.
>
>JJ
>
>--- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I had similar problems w/ 2.6.8 in mandrake. Try
>>something like:
>>cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 speed=48 filename.iso
>>or
>>cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 speed=48 filename.iso
>>if you can find the bus it's on this may work. 
>>It was the only way I could burn w/ 2.6.8
>>hope this helps and good luck 
>>--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:cdrecord de
>>
>>    
>>
>>>It appears to be the IDE drives under 2.6 that are
>>>the problem.  Jorg Schilling
>>>hates them (the interface) and is not shy about
>>>saying so.  If everything is
>>>SCSI there appear to be ~0 problems - it's only
>>>trying to use ATAPI interface
>>>in 2.6 that causes cdrecord to barf.  Oh well going
>>>back to 2.4 tonight - I got
>>>stuck trying to flash my Drive last night (the
>>>raincoat was tied too tight - I
>>>know random:-)  
>>>
>>>JJN
>>>
>>>--- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Glad to hear I'm not the only one.  It's a
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>morass to me!  since cdrecord
>>>      
>>>
>>>>has
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>become the defacto standard and the author has
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>no intention of supporting
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>what
>>>>>he considers the hopeless redheaded stepchild
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>that is the linux kernel, it
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>appear only a new fork that actually has
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>maintenance is the hope for 2.6. 
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>I'm
>>>>>sitting here considering putting a 2.4 kernel on
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>here and jsut staying 2.4
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>Why are you using 2.6 with cdrdao?  I thought
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>cdrdao and cdrecord come from
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>same cdrtools?  It may be my media and I may
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>need to flash my dvdburner to
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>new
>>>>>firmware _I'm going to try that soon as well. 
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>Oh I hope my wife gives me
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>time
>>>>>to work on this this weekend :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>I am having no trouble burning DVDs its just
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>cdrecord that is getting me
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>everytime.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I have zero problems with it,  though my burners
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>are both SCSI devices (one
>>>      
>>>
>>>>is
>>>>a true SCSI burner, the other is a IDE drive on a
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>firewire bridge (considered
>>>      
>>>
>>>>SCSI by linux)
>>>>
>>>>I'm running:
>>>>Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>(C) 1995-2004 Jörg
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Schilling
>>>>on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>(C) 2004,2005 Maximilian
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Decker 
>>>>
>>>>NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>(modified) release of
>>>      
>>>
>>>>cdrecord
>>>>      and thus may have bugs that are not present
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>in the original version.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>      Please send bug reports and support requests
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>to <burbon04 at gmx.de>.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>      For more information please see
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>      The original author should not be bothered
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>with problems of this
>>>      
>>>
>>>>version.
>>>>
>>>>cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.11.11
>>>>cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Linux-2.5 and newer.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>installed from the "cdrtools-2.01-r3" package
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>(gentoo)
>>>      
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Dave J. Andruczyk
>>>>
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