On 9/14/07, Bill Davidsen <
davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
Joe MacDonald wrote:
> 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.
Since it was an ISO image, you didn't want to do anything but burn it...
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=backup.iso
Ah, okay. I wasn't clear from the manpage if that /dev/dvd=backup.iso was for any ol' ISO image or just one that was DVD-video formatted. It seemed odd to me that it would be, but there seems to be a lot of stuff happening behind the curtain for growisofs. :-)
Anyway, just re-tried it (remembered to leave the machine up and with a blank DVD in the tray today) and got what looks like the same response:
root@skynet:/tmp# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=backup.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=
backup.iso of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ MODE SELECT failed with SK=5h/ASC=1Ah/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
> 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
Am I reading this right, you have the disk and DVD on one cable, and
Ubuntu is using the older setup which makes the drive hda rather than
sda? I have a few thoughts, but I'm not convinced that they are the
cause of your problem.
I can't say "no" here, but this is something that's confused me from the first time I started poking at this problem a few months ago. The physical layout inside my case is I have one hard drive (/dev/hda, Seagate 250 gig, ST3250824A) on a single IDE cable and the burner connected on the first (of two) SATA interfaces on the motherboard, but there are things like what you're seeing in my dmesg that seems to suggest a connection between the two. Again, though, I could be just mis-reading it since this is the furthest I've delved into SATA (and the most I've looked at SCSI stuff since I got rid of my machine with the Adaptec card in it years ago).