Re: dvdrtools and dvd+rw-tools problems and suggestions
>From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
>>> After spending some time with Google, I decided my best bet was to try
>>> growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools package. Unfortunately, this quit with
>>> a "Not an MMC unit" error...which baffled me since my DVR-A04 is among
>>> the drives listed as MMC compliant on the dvd+rw-tools homepage.
>>
>>
>> Please keep in mind that most of information appearing on dvd+rw-tools
>> page regarding particular model support is based on user feedback.
>> DVR-A04 was reported by somebody as working [after DVR-A05 actually].
>Is that the same unit as the
> Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-RW DVR-104 Rev: 1.40
>if memory serves. I no longer have my actual A04 unit, it got
>"redeployed" in the test process, but I thought that this was
>essentially the same unit. My "real A04" did work, using ide-scsi under
>2.4.2x Linux kernels.
Maybe you are hit by the same bug I did observe a year ago with a Pioneer
drive:
The drive did reject a SCSI command with "illegal field in CDB" when
doing some tests with Linux. After I did boot the same hardware
with SCO UnixWare-7.1.3 everything worked fine. After going back to Linux,
it dod fail again.
Conclusion: Linux seems to sometimes bastardize SCSI commands it sends to ATAPI
drives.
Jörg
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