April 2000 - Packet Writing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

status update
by Jens Axboe 29 Apr '00

29 Apr '00

Hi folks, The new release has been delayed since last week, since I accidentally fried the IDE drive of my test machine (which was my only copy of the new code). I hope to locate an identical harddrive so I can replace the drive electronics and get the data back. Shouldn't be impossible, it is a cheap Quantum 6.4GB Fireball. So now you know why nothing has happened yet. I truly hope to get a replacement drive and get things up and running again ASAP, and barring any unforeseen obstacles this should be some time next week. -- * Jens Axboe <axboe(a)suse.de> * Linux CD/DVD-ROM, SuSE Labs * http://kernel.dk

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Re: [packet-writing] What about CDRW?
by Gerald Haese 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

Hi! > I'll finish this release as soon as I can. What do you think, can we expect it until easter? So I would have same new stuff for testing during the holidays :-) Gerald -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

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What about CDRW?
by Panos Katsaloulis 14 Apr '00

14 Apr '00

Is it possible to write CD-RW/CD-R using packet writing, or not yet? Thank you. -- Panos Katsaloulis <teras(a)writeme.com> * Microsoft brought artificial intelligence to our desktop: Windows know exactly when is the worst time to crash -- and crash.

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Unable to format CD-RW with cdrwtool
by Sean M. Paus 14 Apr '00

14 Apr '00

I am experiencing a problem formatting one of my CD-RWs with cdrwtool: I have kernel 2.3.99-pre3, the packet-0.0.1l-2.3.99-pre3-8 patch and the udf-0.9.1 stuff. I have an Iomega ZipCD. When I execute cdrwtool with either -u or -q, there is eventually write activity to my CD-RW. cdrwtool reports the % status of formatting the disk until it reaches 99%. At that point I see the following error message: [root@paus1 tools]# ./cdrwtool -d /dev/hdc -q . . . 99% complete Writing UDF structures to disc -14400 (EDT)/240 Error writing packet 0 (ffffffff) I then ran chkudf on the disk in the hopes that it would help in identifying the problem: [root@paus1 tools]# ./chkudf /dev/hdc --Determining device/media parameters. ioctl error 1. **Guessing failed - assuming 2048 byte sector size. Last Sector = 276153 (0x436b9) and is not accurate **Read error #5 in 226591 **Read error #5 in 276151 **Read error #5 in 275895 **Read error #5 in 276153 **Read error #5 in 275897 **Read error #5 in 276001 **Read error #5 in 276003 **Read error #5 in 275745 **Read error #5 in 275747 --Verifying the Volume Recognition Sequence. VRS 0 (sector 16): No ISO 9660 descriptors found. VRS 0 : **BEA01 is not present, skipping remaining VRS. **No Extended VRS found. --Verifying the Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointers. Checking 256: No AVDP. Checking 512: No AVDP. Checking 276153 (n - 0): **Read error #5 in 276153 read error. Checking 276003 (n - 150): **Read error #5 in 276003 read error. Checking 275897 (n - 256): **Read error #5 in 275897 read error. Checking 275747 (n - 406): **Read error #5 in 275747 read error. **No Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointers found. Is there anything else I can do which would help finding the source of this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance, Sean

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gnome/gtk cdrwtool
by Jens Axboe 03 Apr '00

03 Apr '00

Hi, I want to start a project to write a gnome/gtk cdrwtool utility. The idea is that it will replace cdrwtool as the CD-RW frontend for end users. If you have gnome/gtk programming experience, please contact me. -- * Jens Axboe <axboe(a)suse.de> * Linux CD/DVD-ROM, SuSE Labs * http://kernel.dk

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Problems with a CR-4802TE
by Tar 03 Apr '00

03 Apr '00

Hi, I have an CR-4802TE (Mitsumi I think) CD-RW player, and wanted to test the packet writing patch. I downloaded kernel 2.3.99-pre3, packet-0.0.1l and udf-0.9.1 kompiled and installed them. But, when I run the command for blanking and formatting ( as stated in the HOWTO), I get errors. Is there anything wrong with my setup, or isn't my CR-4802TE supported ? Here is the command and the error messages: # cdrwtool -d /dev/hdc -s -z 32 -p 1 -w mode2 -q I get this output: using device /dev/hdc ok, want to set packet size: 32 fixed packets mode2 1600KB internal buffer setting write speed to 4x 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 00 27 0a 07 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 20 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 mode_select: Input/output error set_write And I get this in syslog: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 ATAPI device hdc: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00) The failed "Read Table of Contents" packet command was: "43 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 " cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognise! hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 ATAPI device hdc: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in parameter list -- (asc=0x26, ascq=0x00) The failed "Mode Select 10" packet command was: "55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00 " Tor Arne

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link error in drivers/ide/ide.a
by Sean M. Paus 03 Apr '00

03 Apr '00

I am receiving the following error when I attempt to build my kernel with the packet-writing patch: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/parport/parport.a drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/ide.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/pci/pci.a drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o \ net/network.a \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/ide/ide.a(ide.o): In function `ide_init_builtin_drivers': ide.o(.text.init+0x7e1): undefined reference to `ide_cdrom_init' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I have both linux-2.3.99-pre3.tar.gz and packet-0.0.1l-2.3.99-pre3-8.tar.bz2. The patch applied with no errors. Is there a CONFIG option I might be missing or one that I might have enabled which I shouldn't? The patch instructions only mentioned the new Packet Writing option under Block Devices. Thanks in advance, Sean

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