Writing Cd's with TOSHIBA SD-R21021715

[ben <ben@eightdegrees.com.au>]

Hi All!

I am trying to enable cd-writing with my Asus L3800 Laptop which has a toshiba SD-R21021715 combo DVD-CDR/RW
I am running Debian Woody with the 2.4.20 Kernel from Kernel.org.
The kernel has been patched with acpi & Asus tweak (which is working really well!!)

Currently I have enabled sccsi emulation & disabled ide cdrom in the kernel.
The system boots fine and I can read cd's without any problems..

Unfortunately I can't burn em!

I am using xcdroast.

output from cdrecord -scanbus gives me:
Cdrecord 2.01a07 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
       0,0,0     0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1715' Removable CD-ROM
       0,1,0     1) *
       0,2,0     2) *
       0,3,0     3) *
       0,4,0     4) *
       0,5,0     5) *
       0,6,0     6) *
       0,7,0     7) *

error from cdrecord is:

Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=0,0,0 gracetime=2 fs=1024k -v driveropts=burnfree  speed=8 -eject -multi -pad tsize=255159s -

scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Cdrecord 2.01a07 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 3 = CD-ROM XA mode 2
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'TOSHIBA '
Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102'
Revision       : '1715'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R
Drive buf size : 1312768 = 1282 KB
FIFO size      : 1048576 = 1024 KB
Track 01: data   498 MB         padsize:   30 KB
Total size:      572 MB (56:42.34) = 255176 sectors
Lout start:      572 MB (56:44/26) = 255176 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 104673
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real TAO mode for multi session.
cdrecord: Premature EOF on stdin.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
cdrecord: Input buffer error, aborting.
input buffer ready.
cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

This error seems to be the same regardless of whether I have ide cdrom enabled in the kernel or not so I am not sure if I needed to disable ide cdrom or not.

as the cd's can be read, I am happy to leave it as is but need to know how to make the little blighter write to cd's..

Halp!

Assuming I can get my writer working, how would I go about duplicating my current setup to a cd (preferably bootable) so I can then install this set-up onto another machine?

Cheers,

Ben.