Re: Samsung DVD writer.

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> scdbackup@gmx.net wrote:
>
>   
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >     
> > > I see no relation to cdrecord......
> > >       
> > There seems to be rather a relation to drive weirdology.
> >
> > A GET CONFIGURATION command should succeed if the
> > drive is ready to do any work.
> > "Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46" looks much like
> > a message from operating system resp. a ATA controller.
> >     
>
> No, it looks like a typical badly understandable error message
> from growisofs...
>
>   
> > Do you have an opportunity to connect the drive
> > to a computer with Linux ? Would dvd+rw-mediainfo
> > fail there too ?
> >     
>
> This does not make sense :-(
>
> If you have the opportinits to connect to a computer with 
> Solaris, you may verify whether there is a Linux driver bug.
>
> If you like to see an error message that is meaningful, get a
> recent cdrtools
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
> and call cdrecord -prcap and cdrecord -minfo as root or install
> cdrecord as root.
>   

Haven't you fixed the problem of requiring root YET?!! I don't expect 
you to fix it on Linux, but I would have thought BSD would work.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979