[opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 device? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the command line
Graham wrote:
/dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
This means the drive does not support (or recognise) the media. See below for growisofs error codes... http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127
After reading that page more carefully I realized that it basically says "if your DVD burner is connected to a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors". So: 1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive (IIRC) burned CD-roms just fine? And the fact that the error code i get is not exactly the same? 2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a UDMA/33 cable while the system believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how do I fix it if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or in some config file? (changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite unstable and it would really be better to burn the dvds before powering it off) Thanksa thousand! Ando -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ando, If you are using GUI (KDE in my case) then do as following, Log in as root =>start YAST=>click on option Harware, then first correct your "hdc" device settings in option "IDE dma MODE". This shuld be enough. Take good care with following. In same option "Hardware" there is icon "Disk controler" it is probibly set as "piix" because it is system default, change this optino to "ata-piix" ONLY if you are shore that ATA card is installed on you system. DO NOT experiment with this optin it can crash system completly. Kind regards, Zoran On Friday 10 August 2007 10:25, auxweb@inwind.it Schreef:
Graham wrote:
/dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
:-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]:
Wrong medium type
This means the drive does not support (or recognise) the media. See below for growisofs error codes... http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127
After reading that page more carefully I realized that it basically says "if your DVD burner is connected to a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors".
So: 1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive (IIRC) burned CD-roms just fine? And the fact that the error code i get is not exactly the same?
2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a UDMA/33 cable while the system believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how do I fix it if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or in some config file? (changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite unstable and it would really be better to burn the dvds before powering it off)
Thanksa thousand! Ando -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 10 August 2007 04:23, zoran wrote:
If you are using GUI (KDE in my case) then do as following, Log in as root =>start YAST=>click on option Harware, then first correct
Start YaST > give a root password > select Hardware It is not good idea to login in GUI as root. Some nasty bug in GUI applications that run as root can trash your system. If you start console program than any application from there you will see quite a few error messages in some of them. YaST is designed in different way than other GUI applications, as it has to be run as root. There is much more testing to ensure that it will not harm the system, at least not more than inexperienced user with wrong decisions ;-)
your "hdc" device settings in option "IDE dma MODE". This shuld be enough.
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On Friday 10 August 2007 03:25, auxweb@inwind.it wrote:
Graham wrote:
/dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
:-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]:
Wrong medium type
This means the drive does not support (or recognise) the media. See below for growisofs error codes... http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127
After reading that page more carefully I realized that it basically says "if your DVD burner is connected to a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors".
So: 1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive (IIRC) burned CD-roms just fine? And the fact that the error code i get is not exactly the same?
Errors produced by attempt to use device designed for 33 MB/s transfer rate on 66 or 100 MB/s will be registered in /var/log/messages as device failure. Few last messages you can see also in virtual terminal 10 (Ctrl-Alt-F10), or better open console window and run: tail -f /var/log/messages than try to access device. Drop CD in tray and try to read it. BTW, device designed for 33 MB/s and set on 66 MB/s will appear at best as very slow reading CD. More probable is that it will be not recognized at all.
2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a UDMA/33 cable while the system believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how do I fix it if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or in some config file? (changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite unstable and it would really be better to burn the dvds before powering it off)
Maybe not applicable in your case, but taking HD out of that computer and installing in good one as second drive might be better solution than attempting to use failing one to create backup. External hard drive might be good idea too.
Thanksa thousand! Ando
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