Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:09 pm, Kent West wrote:
>Kent West wrote:
>> Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>>> Add dev=ATAPI in there :
>>>    # cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
>>>
>>> westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
>>>         0,0,0     0) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW  CRX216E  ' 'PD01' Removable
>>> CD-ROM
>>     
>> So my command to burn the ISO should be:
>>
>>  cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 foo.iso
>>
>> right?
>
>Yep; looks like it works. Now if there was just an intuitive way to do
>this  (a la ESR) . . .   :-)
>
>--
>Kent

I hate to pee in the punchbowl...

I've had repeated problems with 2.6 kernels and cd/dvd burning, and still do.

My setup:

Athlon 1.2 Ghz
500Mb RAM
Two 30Gb IDE HDs
Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter
4gig Seagate SCSI HD
Viking USB 6-1 card reader
hdc: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
VIA Chipset
3Dfx Voodoo3 memory = 16384K
Debian SID

When I run (as root):

# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a26 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg 
Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release 
of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original 
version. Please send bug reports and support requests to 
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>. The original author should not be bothered 
with problems of this version.

scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus1:
1,0,0   100) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR   PX-708A  ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0   101) *
1,2,0   102) *
1,3,0   103) *
1,4,0   104) *
1,5,0   105) *
1,6,0   106) *
1,7,0   107) *
kathix jeff #

Normal drop to command prompt.

Now, if I run: 

# cdrecord dev=ATAPI  -scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a26 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg      
Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release 
of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original 
version. Please send bug reports and support requests to 
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.  The original author should not be bothered 
with problems of this version.

scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:0,0,0     0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR   PX-708A  ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM

Result: I never get a return to a command prompt, and the system freezes after 
several minutes. Using the k3b front end produces a system freeze as well, 
when its splash screen locks on scanning system devices.

Please note that the -scanbus with /dev/hdc produces different results for 
scsibus than -scanbus with ATAPI.

Using a 2.4 kernel with ide-scsi works perfectly.

Jeff Elkins