>From: Klaus Elmquist Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I am trying to set up cdrtools-1.10a16 for use with remote scsi at our site.
>There are two systems involved, a rscsi client and a rscsi server:
WOW, THere is a user for RSCSI!
Congratulations :-)
>- The rscsi client is a Compaq Tru64 Unix (formerly Digital UNIX) v4.0F
> on a 64-bit alpha machine.
>- The rscsi server is a RedHat 7.0 system running on a i586 PC (a 200 Mhz
> Pentium).
>The writer PlexWriter 8/2/20 (command performed on the rscsi server):
> $ /pack/cdrecord.1.10a16/bin/cdrecord -inq -dev=0,2,0
> Cdrecord 1.10a16 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling
> scsidev: '0,2,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.4'
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 2
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
> Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8220T'
> Revision : '1.01'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
>Writing works well on the RedHat system (the rscsi server) and has always
>been working very well. That is, cdrecord 1.10a16 works well when used
>locally on the system. And so did all the previous cdrecord versions I
>have been using on that system.
>But SCSI errors are produced when writing from the Compaq UNIX system
>(the rscsi client) to the RedHat system (the rscsi server).
>The tests performed so far indicates that when writing single session
>the writing fails during fixation. And it fails very early when when
>using -dao, please see the log file below.
>Two possible problems comes to mind:
>(1) Byte order. The Compaq UNIX system is a 64-bit machine while the RedHat
> system is a 32-bit machine.
Why, the communication is done in ASCI :-)
>(2) Timing? Could it be that commands that takes a ``long time'' to
> complete may cause timeouts? Just a guess. But the `-inq', `-toc' and
> `-atip', `-load' and `-eject' options works well with remote scsi.
If not a bad SCSI bus it seems to be timing.
>In any case, there appears to be problems using remote scsi between two
>different systems on the list of systems supported by cdrecord.
>Anyone being able to solve the problem here?
>Regards,
>Klaus
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>### Compilation on the Compaq UNIX system also produces the following ###
>gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp_mnt/vol/pack/cdrtools.1.10a16/cdrtools-1.10/inc'
>../RULES/rules.cnf:58: ../incs/alpha-dec-osf3.2-osf1-cc/Inull: No such file or
>directory
>../RULES/rules.cnf:59: ../incs/alpha-dec-osf3.2-osf1-cc/rules.cnf: No such file or
>directory
> ==> MAKING DIRECTORY "../incs/alpha-dec-osf3.2-osf1-cc/Inull"
> ==> CONFIGURING RULES "../incs/alpha-dec-osf3.2-osf1-cc/rules.cnf"
>creating cache ./config.cache
>checking host system type... Invalid configuration `alphaev6-dec-osf4.0f': machine
>`alphaev6-dec' not recognized
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>### Here is the terminal output from the writing session described above ###
>$ /vol/pack/cdrtools.1.10a16/bin/cdrecord \
> -v -pad -dao -dev=REMOTE:rscsi@HOST:0,2,0 -speed=4 /var/tmp/cdr.iso
>Cdrecord 1.10a16 (--) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling
>TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>scsidev: 'REMOTE:rscsi@HOST:0,2,0'
>devname: 'REMOTE:rscsi@HOST:0,2,0'
>scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
>Warning: Using remote SCSI interface.
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.4'
>atapi: 0
>Device type : Removable CD-ROM
>Version : 2
>Response Format: 2
>Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
>Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
>Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8220T'
>Revision : '1.01'
>Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
>Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
>Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
>Drive buf size : 2373168 = 2317 KB
>FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>Track 01: data 32 MB padsize: 30 KB
>Total size: 36 MB (03:39.08) = 16431 sectors
>Lout start: 37 MB (03:41/06) = 16431 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: -11839 (97:24/11)
> ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
>Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
>Manuf. index: 24
>Manufacturer: SONY Corporation
>Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 343418
>Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
>Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
>Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
>Performing OPC...
>Sending CUE sheet...
>Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
>/vol/pack/cdrtools.1.10a16/bin/cdrecord: I/O error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
>error
>CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 1F 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>write track pad data: error after 0 bytes
We have a problem....
It seems that adding support for Sony drives made the error reporting worse
Please test with cdrtools-1.10pre17 so I get timings for this command again.
J�rg
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