On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:52 -0600, Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:23 -0600, N. B. Day wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:21 -0600, Regis Matejcik wrote:
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Here are the results of cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus as you requested:
regis@linux:~> su Password: linux:/home/regis # cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio n. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir@suse.de- scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) 'ATAPI ' 'COMBO52XMAX ' '1.40' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * linux:/home/regis #
I haven't tried the command line option yet.
It looks to me as if this device is a "slave" without a "master," i.e. it is device #1 on the IDE port where there is _no_ device #0. This sometimes works, but is likely to cause trouble like what you're experiencing: plays ok but can't record. If I'm right you'll find that the jumper on the drive is set to slave (this is how most of them ship) or you've got it in the middle of a cable-select cable (any 80 wire new flat cable or round cable) with cable-select jumpered. If you can, take a look at the jumpers on the back, confirm that either Master or CS is selected and put it on the end of the IDE cable. I just looked at your original message: it looks as if you have an hdc which is a hard disk and hdb which is this cdrw device. This suggests to me that (1) the cdrw is jumpered wrong and (2) the hard drive is plugged into IDE1 and the cdrw is in IDE0. I'd check the cdrw jumpers and verify that the hd is attached to the primary IDE port and the cdrw goes to the secondary. This should be silkscreened into the motherboard, but the mb manual (if you have it) is often easier to read. One more thing to try, again from a terminal: hdparm -iI /dev/hda Then /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, and /dev/hdd. This should tell you where things are. HTH -- N. B. Day Registered User 333228 at http://counter.li.org 3:15pm up 4 days 7:54, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.09 SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586)