Here's a puzzle from the Twilight Zone. <bleat>
I can't write CD-R discs with cdrecord - it objects on the grounds of my giving it DVD media - but I'm feeding it CD-R blanks. CD-RW discs work just fine as do DVD-RW with growisofs. I _used_ to be able to write CD-R - I have several as evidence from a couple of months ago. Since then I have changed nothing substantial. Same old CD writer, same old kernel, same old computer. Gentoo itself gets fairly frequent updates - about once a week to do a sync & emerge -uvD world. But cdrecord depends on no shared libraries other than: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:complete/ # ldd `which cdrecord` linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e3b000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f6e000) I tried different CD-R blank media (from el cheapo to expensive Verbatim). Same individual discs work on another computer at work having failed at home. I tried several old and new versions of cdrecord (app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha07, app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01-r1, app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01-r3) and cdrecord-prodvd (app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd-2.01.01_p03) as well as a 6-month-oldish FreeBSD dual-boot OS on the same hardware (with cdrecord - burncd never worked for me). I tried downloading Jorg Schilly's latest cdrtools-alpha (alpha09) direct from his website without the Gentoo patches. I even tried strapping it as a Master IDE instead of as a Slave. All give the same result. Kernel is 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 </bleat> with alpha07: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:complete/ # cdrecord -dummy speed=16 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -data driveropts=burnfree *.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a06 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'OPTORITE' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DD0405 ' Revision : '140E' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing. cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R <... longish pause of about 1 minute with no lights on the CD-recorder .. then: > cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:complete/ # cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a06 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'OPTORITE' 'DVD RW DD0405 ' '140E' 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) * AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! ... or perhaps the hardware is on the way out - but how come I can write the (supposedly more-demanding) CD-RW and DVD????? Here's what I get with alpha09: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:complete/ $ cdrecord -v -dummy speed=16 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -data driveropts=burnfree cd.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Driveropts: 'burnfree' SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'OPTORITE' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DD0405 ' Revision : '140E' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Current: 0x0080 unknown Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-RW sequential overwrite Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: 0x0082 Profile: 0x0081 Profile: 0x0080 (current) cdrecord: Found unsupported 0x80 profile. cdrecord: Sorry, no supported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. also, I tried the /dev/hdc device name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:complete/ $ cdrecord -dummy speed=16 dev=/dev/hdc -data driveropts=burnfree cd.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling 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'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'OPTORITE' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DD0405 ' Revision : '140E' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord: Found unsupported 0x80 profile. cdrecord: Sorry, no supported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. Any ideas anyone? Thanks Bob -- Bob Hepple mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bhepple.freeshell.org Public Key: http://bhepple.freeshell.org/public_keys.txt
