Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type
>From: Thomas J Magliery PhD <magliery@csb.yale.edu>
>I have a Plextor PX-708UF (USB 2.0) on a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. When
>I try to burn an ISO from either xcdroast or the dvdrecord command line,
>I get the following:
>============
>Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone
>Limited features:
>This copy of cdrecord is licensed for:
>private/research/educational_non-commercial_use
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
>Device type : Removable CD-ROM
>Version : 2
>Response Format: 1
>Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
>Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-708A '
>Revision : '1.03'
^^^^^^^^
The first Firmware from Plextor that is known to work halfway correctly
is 1.04.
Please first update the firmware, it is possible since more than a month!
>Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
>Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr).
>Driver flags : DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
>Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
>cdrecord.prodvd: Input/output error. read disk info: scsi sendcmd: no error
>CDB: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 240s
>cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot get disk type.
>=============
If this _still_ fails after you upgraded to 1.04, then there are two
possible reasons:
- A Linux Kernel bug - there are many of them.
- An unfriendly second application tries to do simultaneous
access.
A typical well known application is k3b from KDE.
In order to make sure this does not apply, boot into
single use mode. and try again.
>The media is 4x DVD+R from Memorex. This is not an inherent problem
>with the drive or media, since I can burn the same iso with growisofs.
If something is caused by buggy software outside the application,
then in many cases it may also work just by luck.
> Xcdroast otherwise works (I used it to make the iso file), and it
>correctly detects a CD-R (48x Memorex) when I tap ATIP-Info and it's in
>the drive. I don't have DVD-R to test, but I will do that.
As DVD+R does not implement a simulation mode, it is recommended to
use a DVD-R or DVD-RW for tests.
>Perhaps this is a firmware issue--I see there is a version 1.04
>available for this drive. (I gather the 708A is basically the same
>drive.) Can one upgrade Plextor firmware in Linux, or do I have to put
>this on a Windows machine to do it?
Support for upgrading the firmware for the plextor 708 was added 2.5 months
ago.
Jörg
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