On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>> After spending some time with Google, I decided my best bet was to try > >>> growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools package. Unfortunately, this quit with > >>> a "Not an MMC unit" error...which baffled me since my DVR-A04 is among > >>> the drives listed as MMC compliant on the dvd+rw-tools homepage. > >> > >> > >> Please keep in mind that most of information appearing on dvd+rw-tools > >> page regarding particular model support is based on user feedback. > >> DVR-A04 was reported by somebody as working [after DVR-A05 actually]. > > > >Is that the same unit as the > > Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-RW DVR-104 Rev: 1.40 > >if memory serves. I no longer have my actual A04 unit, it got > >"redeployed" in the test process, but I thought that this was > >essentially the same unit. My "real A04" did work, using ide-scsi under > >2.4.2x Linux kernels. > > Maybe you are hit by the same bug I did observe a year ago with a Pioneer > drive: > > The drive did reject a SCSI command with "illegal field in CDB" when > doing some tests with Linux. After I did boot the same hardware > with SCO UnixWare-7.1.3 everything worked fine. After going back to Linux, > it dod fail again. > > Conclusion: Linux seems to sometimes bastardize SCSI commands it sends to ATAPI > drives.
Thank you for the suggestion. Was that with 2.4 (ide-scsi) or 2.6 (ATAPI: or ide-scsi)? I'm working on capturing the commands used to enable HD_BURN for one of my recent drives, since that seems like a cost effective feature. Obviously having Linux edit the command for me will not make it easier to get a patch working. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
