I (very recently) purchased a Teac CD-W524E drive. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be very compatible with pktcdvd. To be specific, it is EXTREMELY slow (ls on a relatively small directory once took five minutes; writing 150 megabytes to the disc and umounting it took over an hour!) and the discs seem to be highly prone to spontaneous corruption (for instance, an attempt at an ls of a file that should be there results in "permission denied" errors). IDE and SCSI emulation modes produced no difference in results that I could detect. Following is an excerpt from the log from a typical write. Notice the five minute delay towards the end. I didn't include the whole log excerpt because the operation generated about 8 megabytes of logging info. :) I did notice the log comments were very different than those left by the Sony CRX175A, which I managed to get to operate successfully. If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it. I'd like Mount Rainier support on a drive, and Teac supposedly has it, but if I can't get it to work on Linux I'll have to take it back in about ten days to get my money back. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. If it matters, I am running kernel 2.4.17. Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: unlocked last 699772 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: __pkt_inject_request: list_empty == 1, size=4, cmd=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174912, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174913, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174914, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174915, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174916, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174917, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174918, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=37077102, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174920, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174921, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174922, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174923, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174924, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174925, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174926, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174927, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174928, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174929, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174930, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174931, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174932, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174933, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174934, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174935, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174936, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174937, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174938, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174939, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174940, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174941, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174942, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: end_io_write: bh=174943, uptodate=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: pkt_rq_end_io: rq=ce5ecf00, cmd=1, q=00000000 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: handle_queue Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: pkt_request: cmd=1, rq=ce5eb200, rq->sector=700020, rq->nr_sectors=4 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: wake up wait queue Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: handle_queue Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: do_request: bh=37077101, nr_sectors=4, size=128, cmd=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: pkt_gather_data: cmd=1 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: need 124 sectors for 0b:01 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: from 699904 to 700032 <5>(700020 - 700024) Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699904, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699908, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699912, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699916, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699920, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699924, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699928, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699932, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699936, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699940, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699944, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699948, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699952, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699956, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699960, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699964, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699968, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699972, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699976, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699980, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699984, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699988, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699992, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=699996, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700000, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700004, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700008, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700012, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700016, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700024, size=2048 Jan 13 19:49:48 darkstar kernel: get_buffer: sector=700028, size=2048 Jan 13 19:56:27 darkstar kernel: unlocked last 700028 Jan 13 19:56:27 darkstar kernel: __pkt_inject_request: list_empty == 1, size=4, cmd=1 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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