Hi guys,
I'll follow up the other replies in a bit when I get more information,
but I thought I'd try to get the answer to the growisofs requests now.
On 9/12/07, * Bill Davidsen* <davidsen@tmr.com
<mailto:davidsen@tmr.com>> wrote:
Joe MacDonald wrote:
> Either way, it doesn't work in linux so doing backups to DVDs (which
> is generally how I like doing my backups) becomes a pain, to say the
> least, if I have to backup my ext3 partition data from Windows. So
> I'm pretty motivated to see this one through. And buying an add-on
> SATA controller is my last resort since that benefits no one but
me. :-)
You might as well try growisofs, it's easy to learn, will create
an ISO
image with mkisofs if asked, or burn a prepared image, or burn from a
pipe. Only drawback is burning DVD only, no CD. For backup that's
unlikely to be an issue.
So I tried a couple of different options, first with an ISO I had
created a while back and second with just a pile of files on my hard
disk that I wanted to back up. Neither one resulted in any level of
success, but I'm not completely convinced this wasn't a case of pilot
error. So here's my results:
root@skynet:/tmp# file backup.iso
backup.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data UDF filesystem data
(unknown version, id 'NSR0
root@skynet:/tmp# ls -lh backup.iso
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3.7G 2006-06-06 00:14 backup.iso
root@skynet:/tmp# ls -l /dev/dvd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-09-13 12:57 /dev/dvd -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-09-13 12:57 /dev/dvdrw -> scd0
root@skynet:/tmp# ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2007-09-13 12:57 /dev/scd0
root@skynet:/tmp# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J -R -input-charset=iso8859-1
./backup.iso
Executing 'genisoimage -J -R -input-charset=iso8859-1 ./backup.iso |
builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ MODE SELECT failed with SK=5h/ASC=1Ah/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
Which is when I started to think I must be doing something wrong.
Anyway, my second test, was with the collection of .flac files:
root@skynet :/tmp# growisofs -Z /dev/dv -speed=1 -J -R
-input-charset=iso8859 "/home/joe/cds/Matthew Good"
"/home/joe/cds/Nine Inch Nails/" "/home/joe/cd
s/The Tragically Hip/"
Using IN_A_000 for /In a Coma (disc 2) (In a Coma (disc 1))
:-[ MODE SELECT failed with SK=5h/ASC=1Ah/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
And I'm not seeing anything interesting in dmesg:
root@skynet:/tmp# dmesg
[___snip___]
[ 31.043343] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 31.044366] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.1
[ 31.044665] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
[ 31.044738] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] ->
GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 31.044924] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
[ 31.045040] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e200 ctl 0x0001e302
bmdma 0x0001e600 irq 16
[ 31.045140] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e400 ctl 0x0001e502
bmdma 0x0001e608 irq 16
[ 31.045229] scsi0 : sata_via
[ 31.062598] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 31.062686] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 31.062768] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 31.092812] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 31.114790] via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by
Donald Becker
[ 31.125811] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[ 31.245121] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 31.247832] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 31.278089] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 31.411458] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e207
[ 31.422159] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e207
[ 31.584631] ata1.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/100
[ 31.748318] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 31.748388] scsi1 : sata_via
[ 31.951772] ata2: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 31.962463] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e407
[ 31.965375] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM
GSA-H62N CL00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 31.967496] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00: 0f.1
[ 31.967591] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] ->
GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 31.967774] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[ 31.967835] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 31.967907] VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on
pci0000:00:0f.1
[ 31.967987] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 31.968159] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings:
hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[ 31.968328] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 31.994222] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 31.994304] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 31.994544] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 31.998445] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 32.383053] hda: ST3250824A, ATA DISK drive
[ 33.054116] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 33.055897] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 33.625054] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
[ 33.625129] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] ->
GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 33.625309] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 33.625623] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned
bus number 1
[ 33.625727] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 17, io base 0x0000e900
[ 33.626243] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 33.626435] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 33.626503] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 33.631647] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[ 33.676060] hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
[ 33.700357] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 33.700450] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) ->IRQ 17