Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > > ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version > > has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? > > But the write command is not

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Mark Cooke wrote: > > Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the > > user-space apps change to go both ways. > > Hi Andre, > > Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - > I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > As far as I know, cdrecord interfaces to Linux either > via the sg or pg devices. No-one would be happier than > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > ioctl() is in place for lk

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Mark Cooke wrote: Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the user-space apps change to go both ways. Hi Andre, Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi translation, and

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: As far as I know, cdrecord interfaces to Linux either via the sg or pg devices. No-one would be happier than I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? But the write command is not included

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-17 Thread George
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote: >However it may be a broken hp7100: I suspect that all drives ever >made are now dead because of bad quality. Mine still works as a reader. ;) Attempting to actually write produces a lovely "power calibration failed" and a coaster faster than you can

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 17 01:14:32 2000 >1.8.1. A ricoh 9060 on a machine running identical kernel build / >cdrecord binary works fine> >I just finished compiling cdrecord-1.8.1 with debug enabled. The two >attached log files are from the hp7100i / smp / 2.2.18pre15, and the >ricoh

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-17 Thread George
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote: However it may be a broken hp7100: I suspect that all drives ever made are now dead because of bad quality. Mine still works as a reader. ;) Attempting to actually write produces a lovely "power calibration failed" and a coaster faster than you can

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Sg has an ioctl called SG_SET_TRANSFORM which is only > relevant to the ide-scsi driver. As far as I know, no > applications use it. Still it is not clear why Mark's > system would work on a UP machine but fail on a SMP box. Hi Douglas, Jörg, all,

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version > has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? But the write command is not included

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Mark Cooke wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the > > user-space apps change to go both ways. > > Hi Andre, > > Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - > I'm wanting to try to

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the > user-space apps change to go both ways. Hi Andre, Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi translation, and

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Ricky Beam wrote: > There are specific notes about the HP 7100 drives not working corectly due > to bad command translations. That was supposed to have been fixed years > ago. Hi Ricky, And I know it was working on this very machine some time in the past with a 2.2.x.

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > >Its a message from the drive politely requesting cd-record to talk valid > > >commands. But as ide-scsi touches some commands (remapping old ones that are > > >not supported on ATAPI) its possible to be kernel > > > > Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly? > >IDE cd burners talk ATAPI. ATAPI is just a scsi variant. SCSI won the battle >at the protocol level ... Yeah yeah yeah. What I meant was "you don't have to use ide-scsi." However, after

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Alan Cox
> >Its a message from the drive politely requesting cd-record to talk valid > >commands. But as ide-scsi touches some commands (remapping old ones that are > >not supported on ATAPI) its possible to be kernel > > Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly? IDE cd burners

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% >> during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 > >If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature >of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I hope yu get some progress. I just saw mine bomb again at spped=4... Jeff Mark Cooke wrote: > > Hi Jeff, Alan, Jens, > > Thank you all for the replies. I guess I'll try to contact > appropriate people at HP / try newer/older versions of cdrecord. I do > know the drive was working with

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi Jeff, Alan, Jens, Thank you all for the replies. I guess I'll try to contact appropriate people at HP / try newer/older versions of cdrecord. I do know the drive was working with 2.2. a long time back. It's just rare I use the burner. One other thing that may be relevent - the HP doesn't

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb magneto

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE devices directly? IDE cd burners talk ATAPI. ATAPI is just a scsi variant. SCSI won the battle at the protocol level ... Yeah yeah yeah. What I meant was "you don't have to use ide-scsi." However, after

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Its a message from the drive politely requesting cd-record to talk valid commands. But as ide-scsi touches some commands (remapping old ones that are not supported on ATAPI) its possible to be kernel Umm, doesn't cdrecord know how to address IDE

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Ricky Beam wrote: snip There are specific notes about the HP 7100 drives not working corectly due to bad command translations. That was supposed to have been fixed years ago. Hi Ricky, And I know it was working on this very machine some time in the past with a 2.2.x.

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the user-space apps change to go both ways. Hi Andre, Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi translation, and

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Mark Cooke wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the user-space apps change to go both ways. Hi Andre, Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - I'm wanting to try to avoid

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? But the write command is not included in

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: snip Sg has an ioctl called SG_SET_TRANSFORM which is only relevant to the ide-scsi driver. As far as I know, no applications use it. Still it is not clear why Mark's system would work on a UP machine but fail on a SMP box. Hi Douglas, Jörg, all,

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: > > > is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% > > during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 > > If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature > of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb magneto opticals

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Mark Cooke wrote: > Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7100 ' > > Blanking entire disk > CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: retryable error > Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 02 89 16 A1 10 00 80 > status: 0x2

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Alan Cox
> is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% > during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb magneto opticals for testing CD stuff > >

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
This is bad. I am seeing problems as well, but speed=2 and even speed=4 are working here non 2.2.18 with both CDRW and CD-RW/DVD Ram. You may have a hardware problem of some type, or perhaps the bug is more easily reproducable for you. I have noticed that perhaps some of the problem is in

failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, Just to follow up on an earlier message / thread. I've updated to 2.2.18pre15 on the machine (dual celeron, gigabyte 6bxd) I was having trouble writing CDRWs to, and it has made no difference, unfortunately. With the same tools / os on my other cdrw equipped machine (k7/up/ricoh 9060)

failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, Just to follow up on an earlier message / thread. I've updated to 2.2.18pre15 on the machine (dual celeron, gigabyte 6bxd) I was having trouble writing CDRWs to, and it has made no difference, unfortunately. With the same tools / os on my other cdrw equipped machine (k7/up/ricoh 9060)

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: is in cdrecord itself, since I have seen that if the FIFO ever hits 0% during CD burning, cdrecord has a tendency to bomb. =20 If you empty the fifo and the drive fifo you burn a coaster. Thats a feature of CD burning and one reason I use 640Mb magneto opticals for