Linux-Hardware Digest #932, Volume #13 Thu, 23 Nov 00 13:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: SCSI Reset ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Rescan SCSi-Bus (Neil Cherry)
Primax Hand Scanner with Linux? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: Logitech (and now Belkin) mouse problems ("Eric W. Goforth")
Re: Triton problem with 2.2.X... (was Re: slow connection?) (Steve Houseman)
Re: es1371 + viavoice + blackdown sound card problem (John Harlow)
Proposed Linux machine, needs critique. (CBFalconer)
Re: SAMBA and fax server for windows clients ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SAMBA and fax server for windows clients ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
printer hpdj 895cxi -- how to reset printer? (Michael Will)
Re: Want LINUX for tape drive compatibility. Advice sought ("Mark Lane")
Re: presario HCF miniPCI modem or the miniPCI ethernet NIC? (Donald Becker)
Re: Help! mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device (Alastair Allen)
RedHat 7 on a quad PPro only recognizes one processor. (root)
Re: Serial hub capable of holding an IP address? ("Watson A.Name")
Re: CD-RW failure - What do I try next? (Teresa =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rom=E1n?= Grande)
Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner? (Alexander Neumann)
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Date: 23 Nov 2000 8:17:4 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Reset
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Tobias Dresbach;
TD> Hi all,
TD> how to make a scsi-reset so i can switch on my external cd-burner
TD> after reboot?
See if freshmeat has a link to 'scsiadd-1.3.tar.gz'. Its readme claims
it can do this.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Rescan SCSi-Bus
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:01:01 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:32:28 +0100, Tobias Dresbach wrote:
>Hi all,
>i have an extern scsi cd-burner and dat connected to my debian box.
>my question is how to make a scsibus-rescan so i can switch on the burner an
>dat after booting the system?
>under suse linux i did a "modprobe am53c974" but under debian it doesn�t
>work.
>thanks in advance
>tobi
Look for scsi_info or scsiinfo, also freshmeat.net had scsiadd. One of
those should help.
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http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Primax Hand Scanner with Linux?
Date: 23 Nov 2000 14:17:43 GMT
I was given a Primax Hand Scanner (grey scales) together with an 8 bit
ISA card. Is it supported by Linux?
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO lists
"Escom 256 (Primax Lector Premier 256) handheld scanner" under
"unsupported", but that document's over one year old now. Did anyone try
to use such a scanner with Linux?
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Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: "Eric W. Goforth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech (and now Belkin) mouse problems
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:39:40 GMT
Hello all,
I bought a cheap ($9.95) Belkin PS/2 + Serial mouse. It seems to work
okay in Win98 if I have it plugged into the PS/2 port. In Linux, it
seems to work better than the Logitech mouse did especially in bash. In
X, it's an improvement, but still seems jerky. If I'm running X it will
work okay for a while and then acts as though I'm pressing buttons, etc.
even though I haven't. Then X will lock up and I have to
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This is using the generic 3-button mouse as set in
mouseconfig.
I tried using the PS/2 to Serial adapter and plugging it into my
System's second serial port (the first serial port is being used by my
external modem). It doesn't work at all even in Win 98SE. Win98 device
manager shows my COM2 IRQ to be 03 and my COM2 I/0 to be 02F8 - 02FF (no
conflicts). Win98 device manager shows my COM1 IRQ to be 04 and my COM1
I/0 to be 03F8 - 03FF (no conflicts). Device manager show my modem to
be plugged into COM1.
"Eric W. Goforth" wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having problems with my mouse in RH 6.1 Linux. I'm using a
> Logitech MouseMan+ Model M-CW47. This mouse worked on my old
> computer with the same version of Linux. On my new computer it
> jerks around in both X and in bash. It's really hard to select
> text in bash because it acts as though I've released the left mouse
> button while dragging, even though I haven't.
>
> Currently, my mouse pointer stays in the upper hand corner of my
> screen in X and acts as though I was pressing the buttons when I
> try to move it around the screen. Using mouseconfig, I've tried
> both the Mouseman+, Generic 3-button mouse, even the Microsoft mouse,
> but have the problems with both. The mouse works fine when I boot
> into Win98SE.
>
> I looked at the Busmouse-HOWTO, but didn't see anything that seemed
> applicable. In Win98 there aren't any IRQ conflicts. I can use my
> external modem and the mouse at the same time in Linux. Any ideas
> what's wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Houseman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Triton problem with 2.2.X... (was Re: slow connection?)
Date: 23 Nov 2000 13:49:52 -0000
> I know the difference now - I RTFM-ed:) I'll give another go in BIOS
> upgrade tonight with a disk image from the computer manufacturer site, but
> the files I've got on the boot-disk seem to be identical (sizes+dates...)
> to ones, obtained from the Intel site...
fwiw, "sum" does a checksum on the file which one way to compare
two binary files .
Cheers,
Steve Houseman
--
currently steve.houseman at virgin net
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From: John Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: es1371 + viavoice + blackdown sound card problem
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:21:37 GMT
In article <ah2S5.20795$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <8v1qm3$8sv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Harlow"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > In article <d2LQ5.2971$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> The es1371 driver does not support .au formats, which means that
the
> >> following quick-and-dirty ways of accessing the sound card do not
> > work:
> >>
> >> cat sample.au > /dev/dsp dd bs=8k count=4 < /dev/audio > sample.au
> >>
> >> Catting /dev/sndstat does not do what I expect it to do:
> >>
> >> % cat /dev/sndstat
> >> cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
> >>
> > Same thing.
> >
> > Using the dd command works perfectly. Samples I dd in replay fine
when I
> > cat them to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp.
>
> I'm sorry, I'm confused. Do the "dd" and the "cat sample.au
> /dev/dsp" commands work for you or not? If they do, then your problem
and
> mine are somewhat different, as neither of those commands work for me
-
> catting .au files produces static.
>
catting a .au doesn't work. catting a file I created with dd and my
microphone does work.
> Would you mind emailing me your kernel configuration file?
> (/usr/src/linux/.config)? I would much appreciate it if I could see
> whether I've failed to check some option there.
I'm running the stock MD 7.1 2.2.16 kernel. All of the sound is setup as
modules.
>
> Finally, can you send me the name or the url of the commercial OSS
> drivers that you downloaded?
The drivers are from http://www.4front-tech.com.
To use them, you must rmmod sound and comment out the sound entries in
/etc/conf.modules.
I am still having viavoice problems. The setup tools work fine, but I
have intermittent problems with their dictation word processing program
Hope this helps.
John
>
> Thanks for all your help. I'm not usually this incompetent, I just
have a hard
> time with hardware.
>
> matt
>
>
--
John R. Harlow
United Systems Inc.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Before you buy.
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From: CBFalconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Proposed Linux machine, needs critique.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:36:44 GMT
The following is a quote I received recently. I would appreciate
hearing about any possible gotchas for the Linux (& Windows)
environment. I expect to dual boot it with W98.
The additional PCI parallel card is to allow for two printers,
laser and inkjet. I envision using the USB for a scanner. One
serial port is for a USR 56k modem, the other is for general
purposes. I expect to add a LAN using existing ISA cards.
I especially want to evaluate the printer ports (The laserjet is a
Samsung, goes for 199, and I already have it), the ECC interaction
with Linux (can it report corrections to locate flakey memory - I
believe Windoze can't), possible future usage with an external UPS
(how does it signal shutdowns etc.), any video problems for
X-windows, problems with the power control system.
I want to get this right, as I expect to use it for a long time.
The price seems fair, but if it is seriously off please let me
know also.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
=================================
The following is a quotation for the computer system you
requested:
>
>* AMD Thunderbird at 750MHz
>* Gigabyte Socket A Motherboard
> 1 Printer Port, 2 USB Ports, 2 Serials Ports (COM1 & COM2)
> See detailed information below
>* 128MB ECC SDRAM at 133MHz
>* 30GB Ultra ATA66 7200RPM Hard Drive
>* 16MB EVGA NVIDIA chipset graphics accelerator card
>* CD-Rewriter 8X4X32X
>* Onboard Audio
>* 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy disk drive
>* Additional PCI Parallel Card
>* PS2 Mouse & Keyboard
>_______________________________
>Unit Price: $ 995
>Options:
>IMAGIC 17" .26mm Color Monitor..........Add $ 169
>IMAGIC 19" .26mm Color Monitor..........Add $ 289
>Upgrade to 40GB 7200RPM Hard Drive.........Add $ 39
>Add 12X DVD ROM Drive..............Add $109
>Add 16X DVD ROM Drive.........Add $145
>
>GA-7ZXR
>VIA KT133 AGPset
>PROCESSOR
>AMD R AthlonT /DuronT (K7) Socket A processor (256K/64K 2nd cache on die)
>Supports 500MHz ~ 1.5GHz and faster
>95/100/103/105/110/115/133 MHz FSB
>AUTO detects CPU voltage
>
>CHIPSET
>VIA VT8363 (KT133) Memory/AGP/PCI Controller (PAC)
>VIA VT82C686A PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)
>Creative CT5880 PCI sound chip (4 channel audio)
>AC97 codec
>Promise PDC 20265 ATA100 w/ RAID chip
>
>MEMORY
>3 168-pin DIMM sockets
>Supports PC-100 / PC-133 SDRAM and VCM SDRAM
>Supports up to 1.5GB DRAM
>Supports only 3.3V SDRAM DIMM
>
>SLOT
>1 x AMR (Audio Modem Riser) slot
>1 x AGP slot supports 4X mode & AGP 2.0 compliant
>5 x PCI slots support 33Mhz & PCI 2.2 compliant
>1 x ISA slot
>
>I/O
>2 x Ultra DMA 33/66 bus master IDE ports on board
>2 x Ultra DMA 33/66/100 bus master IDE ports on board
>1 x FDD, 2 x COM, 1 x LPT, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse on board
>1 x joystick, 1 x line-in, 1 x line-out and 1 x MIC on board
>2 x USB ports on board, 2 x USB ports by cable (optional accessary)
>IrDA TX / RX header ready (optional)
>
>POWER
>ATX power connector
>Power-on by LAN, RTC, Modem & Switch
>Power-off by Windows� 95/98/2000 Shut down & Switch
>Stop CPU fan during entering suspend mode
>
>FORM FACTOR
>ATX form factor, 4 layers PCB (30.4*24.4 cm)
>
>H/W MONITORING
>CPU/System voltage detect (Vcore,VDD,Vcc,+12V)
>Stop CPU fan in suspend mode
>H/W detect & report Power-in voltage, CPU voltage and CMOS battery status
>CPU/System fan revolution & temperature detect
>
>BIOS
>Supports DualBIOST technology; 2Mbit flash RAM
>AMI BIOS with enhanced ACPI feature for PC98/Win98/Win2000 ME compliance,
>Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (>8.4GB) &Anti-Virus functions
>IDE#1~#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP & CD-ROM bootable
>AC recovery ON/OFF control; Auto-detect & report system health status
>Supports @BIOS Live Update utility
--
Chuck Falconer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.qwikpages.com/backstreets/cbfalconer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: SAMBA and fax server for windows clients
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:25:33 GMT
In article <8vbhjv$mlk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone successfully set up a fax server, like efax, that works through
> SAMBA? I am interested in running efax on my Linux firewall / router box
> and allowing windows clients to access the modem to send and receive faxes.
> Anyone had any success?
>
>
Suggest you contact KYZO at www.net-inter-net.co.uk and look at the fax
printer option in their internet server.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: SAMBA and fax server for windows clients
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:25:34 GMT
In article <8vbhjv$mlk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone successfully set up a fax server, like efax, that works through
> SAMBA? I am interested in running efax on my Linux firewall / router box
> and allowing windows clients to access the modem to send and receive faxes.
> Anyone had any success?
>
>
Have a look at the Net-Inter-Net Server from KYZO at www.net-inter-net.co.uk
It has the option to act as a fax server to send and receive to Windows
clients.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Will)
Subject: printer hpdj 895cxi -- how to reset printer?
Date: 23 Nov 2000 16:43:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing none of the faq have told me so far is how I can
reset a printer that got mad by receiving wrong data as
for example can happen when you start printing before it
was switched on or just from raw data going to /dev/lp0...
...this hp deskjet 895cxi is driving me nuts because it
has this really well engineered feature in it - it
remembers the old data even when you unplug it. it takes
being left unplugged at least half an hour or more in order
to forget about its buffers content and continues wasting
paper driveling mad stuff across in an effort to do away
with trees for all and for good.
Anyone knowing how to stop this beast except rebooting to
windows? (Which I dont want to!) I found a lpreset source
on some webpage but it was for an old kernel - I use 2.2.17.
HELP
Michael Will
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From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Want LINUX for tape drive compatibility. Advice sought
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:12:07 -0700
Forget USB look for a parallel port or ide/floppy tape drive that supports
that size of tapes. BTW setting up SCSI tape drives under Linux is trivial
and is usually a matter of shutting down the machine attaching the drive and
restarting the machine up. The others require special kernel modules to be
loaded.
Mark
"kb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:DBzR5.6888$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I'm glad to find a newsgroup dedicated to linux hardware like this.
> I think with this many people in this hobby ...um work. sorry. Somebody
> is bound to know the solution for my problem.
>
> I want a external 8mm tape drive , NON SCSU and preferably USB,
> and a OS that can read tapes made by "gtar" from a Solaris sun
> workstation.
>
> So I'm looking for a boxed Linux version that would fill the need of
> a chip design consulting works for both a laptop and desktop - Currently
> eyeing a SUSU 7.0 box, and a NON scsio 8mm tape drive that would
> work with that Linux version.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: presario HCF miniPCI modem or the miniPCI ethernet NIC?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:09:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruce R Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Eric wrote:
>> Thanks...I'll call compaq and see if I can get the info (why oh WHY don't
>> they ship hardware documentation with there computers?)
>
>I'll be surprised if you can find someone who understands the question,
>let alone will admit to the answer.
>If you *DO*, then *PLEASE* post it back here.
>
>FWIW, I have a Presario 1700 with the combo miniPCI card. Both
>the modem & nic are "conexant" (which apparently was formerly
>rockwell???)
>But that's as far as I could get. There is a conexant web site, but it
>seems to be completely targeted at manufacturers, rather than users.
We just purchased a Presario 1700.
I was expecting a 3Com or Intel NIC, but it appears to be using a new chip.
The new chip is Tulip-like, but it's not a known variant.
If anyone has opened their machine, please report the chip part number to
the me or the Tulip mailing list. I'll announce any progress on a driver to
that mailing list as well
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c
--
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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From: Alastair Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:26:18 +0000
/dev/cdrom now points to /dev/scd0.
scsi support was already compiled in, but for some reason not all the
relevant modules were loaded. The CD-Writing HOWTO was helpful. Doing
# cdrecord -scanbus
loaded the modules.
All works OK now.
Thankyou for your help.
--
Alastair
Dr A R Allen
Aberdeen University
Tel: +44 1224 272501; Fax: +44 1224 272497
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage: www.abdn.ac.uk/~eng267
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7 on a quad PPro only recognizes one processor.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:26:07 +0100
Hello,
I've been trying to install RedHat 7.0 on a Fujitsu-ICL teamserver
M754i, a quad processor machine with 4 Pentium Pro at 200MHz and 512 MB
RAM. Installation goes fine except for the fact that after ending and
rebooting the kernel, wich is 2.2.16-22smp, only recognizes one
processor. All 4 processors are activated at startup (as BIOS tells),
and the SMP mode set in BIOS is MP1.1 (same result with MP 1.4).
When I "cat /proc/cpuinfo" it lists only one processor. I have used
RedHat 7.0 as is, without recompliling anything. It has worked OK,
recognizing all the processors in three other machines (Dual Pentium
III) I have installed.
Any solutions, suggestions, hints ?
Thanks in advance.
Juan Conde.
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From: "Watson A.Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Serial hub capable of holding an IP address?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:34:41 GMT
Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article <8uf7ju$q6o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Trib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I need to connect several serial devices to a network in a
> >cost-effective/professional looking way (i.e. no $2500 Cisco 2500 access
> >servers suggestions please). What I basically need is a "serial hub"
> >capable of holding an IP address, so that I can remotely access the serial
> >devices using an IP address and port number.
> What types of serial devices? If it's a serial printer, Lantronix makes
> print servers with serial ports that will do the job. We tried using one to
> share a Zebra label printer among several workstations, but the software
> that prints the labels is some ancient DOS-based POS that only knows how to
> talk to actual hardware devices. Other than that, it would've worked great.
> I think the one we bought was somewhere in the neighborhood of $200-$300.
> If it's another type of device, though...I don't know what you'd use.
We have a printer on our network that uses a Lantronix printer server
and the server has both parallel and serial ports. If you're going to
use the serial port, you may need to make special RS-232 cables that are
crossover and/or have control signals jumpered or rerouted. I think
it's still www.lantronix.com but I haven't been on their web site for
more than a year.
There are others that make a similar product.
As for your DOS based problem above. If you have your printer set up as
a network printer, then you could run the old program in a DOS box and
have it print to a file. After the print to file has finished, you can
make up a batch file that does:
Net use LPT1: \\whatever\network\path
Copy printfile LPT1:
Net use LPT1: /D
The last line undoes the net use so that your regular LPT port will work
again. I did this with our big LJ5 SIMX and 8000, and it's really
slick! These printers print double-sided, they're really fast, and they
handle PostScript, which is really cool.
And by printing out to a PostScript file on disk, I can conserve paper.
I go into GhostView/GhostScript (freeware) and call in the postscript
file, and then convert it to a .PDF file ready for Acrobat Reader. I
can then attach this to an email to anyone in the world. They don't
need to have M$ Word or Wordperfect or any word processor. And the
recipient can save and print my document, but they can't modify it so it
stays the way I want it to look. And there's no worry about getting
emailed a Word Macro virus.
If there's a problem getting a DOS program to print to disk, there used
to be a program available that would let you run a TSR that would run
under DOS and make an LPT2: for instance, that was actually a file on
disk. (TSR is Terminate and Stay Resident.)
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From: Teresa =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rom=E1n?= Grande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD-RW failure - What do I try next?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:36:08 +0000
Just one thing: you are not mounting the cd-rw unit, are you?
Just in case you donn't know it must NOT be mounted.
This was my personal mistake for a while...
> Questioner wrote:
> >
> > I just bought one of those $99 CenDyne (www.cendyne.com) CD-RW drives
> > at CompUSA. deja.com tells me (from my ROM version) it's a remarked
> > ACER 8432i, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > I can read audio and iso9660 CDROMs and writing of CDR and CDRW disks
> > give NO ERROR MESSAGES with either plain cdrecord or xcdroast audio or
> > data from hard disk or from companion CDROM drive. But after writing,
> > the disk appears to xcdroast to be empty or missing (depending on
> > the sub-application/form). Attempts to mount a disks give:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrw,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > My FIFO stays at least 90% full throughout on my 500 MHz system.
> > I can read the metadata (ATIP info) off the disk OK.
> > My secondary IDE channel has a CDROM at primary/hdc (accessing as IDE)
> > with the CD-RW at slave/hdd (accessing as scd0) and as I said,
> > communications with both drives seem to be OK both directions.
> >
> > I've tried two brands (good and bad) of CDRW media and the one CDR
> > that came with the system. I've tried the CDRW at 4x and 2x speeds.
> >
> > I can see a change to the disk surface after writing but only about
> > 1/4 inch seems to be written on a normal write while a blank=all
> > changes the whole (1.5? inch radially) disk.
> >
> > I have no ready access to a different operating system.
> >
> > I've tried doing "head -c 20480 /dev/scd0 | cd -c" and get an
> > "Input/output error" with my written disk (and stuff with recognizable
> > strings from a prerecorded data CD).
> >
> > The 3-page CD-RW manual says to make it the master (and only) drive on
> > the channel, but I can't believe that's necessary. Anyone know
> > different or think of a reason why it might be a problem?
> >
> > Have there been any kernel problems or differences? I don't see much
> > on that at deja.com. I'm using a 2.2.16 patched with IDE improvments
> > which has been working OK for several months.
> >
> > Any idea what I should try next? Must I embarass myself by taking it
> > to someone with a different OS?
> >
> > Thanks for responding to the newsgroup; the return address won't work.
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Neumann)
Subject: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:42:42 +0100
Hi all,
I bought a LG CED-8080B (8x4x32x) IDE cdrw burner. I compiled the kernel
with SCSI-Emulation an added "ide-scsi" to lilo.conf.
When I tryed to burn something using cdrecord, it worked but only with 4x. Even
if I gave cdrecord the parameter speed=8 and fs=8m it only wanted to burn
with 4x:
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# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -fs=8m ./test.iso
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'LG '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
Revision : '1.05'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.
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With -debug and -v i found out, that cdrecord only recognizes 1 of 2MB
internal cache:
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# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -fs=8m -debug -v ./test.iso
[..]
Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB
FIFO size : 8388608 = 8192 KB
[..]
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Has anyone recognized the same effect? Are there any suggestions for a
solution of this problem?
Thanks
ALex
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