Has anyone had any luck with the Plextor PX-708a drive and the DVD+RW
kernel patch?
Not to discourage you from trying, but there're certain things that
you ought to keep in mind:
1. read "P.S. non-essentail "rant."" at
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ide-cd-2.5.69.+patch;
2. note that there're now DVD+capable units which terminate write
requests with "LONG WRITE IN PROGRESS" as well and PX-708A is one
of them;
3. currently available DVD+RW kernel patch does *not* expect unit to
return "LONG WRITE IN PROGRESS" and it's not clear what happens in
such case;
On insertion?:
Oct 15 23:47:57 a1200 kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: 0x2a 00
^^^^ Why
would it write someting on insertion?
00 24 4f d0 00 00 10 00
^^^^^^^^ This is beyond the media edge. How come?
On write command to /dev/scd0:
Oct 16 00:02:53 a1200 kernel: sr0: mmc-3 profile: 1Ah
Oct 16 00:02:53 a1200 kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Oct 16 00:02:53 a1200 kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Oct 16 00:03:35 a1200 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 148853, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 00 05 bf 00 00 3f 00
^^^^^ This is
2.9MB, which is of the same order of magnitute as internal buffer and
therefore can as well be first "LONG WRITE IN PROGRESS." Other possible
explanations are discussed in "Packet writing on NEC1300" thread at
http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/cdwrite-200309/threads.html with
http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/cdwrite-200309/msg00061.html as
summary. A.