Burning CDs as user produces coasters (Plextor drive)

Burning CDs as user produces coasters (Plextor drive)

[Gregor Jasny]

Hi,

since some time burning ISO CD images as user fails.
Wodim stops during OPC and the kernel prints some messages:

scsi: unknown opcode 0xe9
scsi: unknown opcode 0xed
scsi: unknown opcode 0xf5
scsi: unknown opcode 0xeb

If I burn as root, everything works fine. The used CD writer is a
"PLEXTOR  DVDR   PX-712A   1.09". I've seen in the wodim/cdrecord
sources that plextor drives are handled different from other drives.

Do you know what the above listed commands are for?
Maybe they could be included in blk_verify_command?
If your'e not sure about the dangerousness maybe as a config option?

Thanks,
Gregor

Re: Burning CDs as user produces coasters (Plextor drive)

[Jeff Garzik]

Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since some time burning ISO CD images as user fails.
> Wodim stops during OPC and the kernel prints some messages:
> 
> scsi: unknown opcode 0xe9
> scsi: unknown opcode 0xed
> scsi: unknown opcode 0xf5
> scsi: unknown opcode 0xeb
> 
> If I burn as root, everything works fine. The used CD writer is a
> "PLEXTOR  DVDR   PX-712A   1.09". I've seen in the wodim/cdrecord
> sources that plextor drives are handled different from other drives.
> 
> Do you know what the above listed commands are for?
> Maybe they could be included in blk_verify_command?
> If your'e not sure about the dangerousness maybe as a config option?

What drivers and kernel versions work (and which fail)?

	Jeff

Re: Burning CDs as user produces coasters (Plextor drive)

[Bjoern Olausson]

On 3/24/08, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Gregor Jasny wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > since some time burning ISO CD images as user fails.
>  > Wodim stops during OPC and the kernel prints some messages:
>  >
>  > scsi: unknown opcode 0xe9
>  > scsi: unknown opcode 0xed
>  > scsi: unknown opcode 0xf5
>  > scsi: unknown opcode 0xeb
>  >
>  > If I burn as root, everything works fine. The used CD writer is a
>  > "PLEXTOR  DVDR   PX-712A   1.09". I've seen in the wodim/cdrecord
>  > sources that plextor drives are handled different from other drives.
>  >
>  > Do you know what the above listed commands are for?
>  > Maybe they could be included in blk_verify_command?
>  > If your'e not sure about the dangerousness maybe as a config option?
>
>
> What drivers and kernel versions work (and which fail)?
>
>         Jeff
>
>

The PX-712A still doesn't work right? Maybe it is related to the bug:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8918

Tejun has the dirve, but nothing new for now.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8918

regards
Bjoern

Re: Burning CDs as user produces coasters (Plextor drive)

[Joerg Schilling]

>since some time burning ISO CD images as user fails.
>Wodim stops during OPC and the kernel prints some messages:

>scsi: unknown opcode 0xe9
>scsi: unknown opcode 0xed
>scsi: unknown opcode 0xf5
>scsi: unknown opcode 0xeb

>If I burn as root, everything works fine. The used CD writer is a
>"PLEXTOR  DVDR   PX-712A   1.09". I've seen in the wodim/cdrecord
>sources that plextor drives are handled different from other drives.

One of the known bugs in "wodium" is that it tries to keep you missinformed
about the fact that you need root privileges in order to write CDs on Linux.

The official cdrecord does not have this problem, it informs you early about
missing root privileges.

I recommend you to get a recent original from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

compile it and install it suid root. Readcd and cdda2wav also need root 
privileges in order to work.

BTW: at the Linuxtage in Chemnitz, I got a hint from Chris Friedhoff that 
recent linux kernel seem to include a method that could help to avoid root 
privileges. He told me that he is going to provide a patch for cdrtools
and I am waiting on his next reply....

Jörg

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