Re: 2.5.56-mm1 fails to detect cd burner

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> There are no ostensible errors. I logged the whole cdrecord session
>> (and used axboe's "special" cdrecord version) and have that, but
>> there's nothing obviously going wrong anywhere in it.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:50:54PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> William,
> Perhaps you could try an older version of cdrecord
> that uses the sg interface. That way we may be able to
> isolate the problem (and you may even get a useful
> CD-R burnt).
> Does that "special" version of cdrecord interface to the
> kernel via the CDROM_PACKET or the SG_IO ioctl?
> When I connected my Yamaha 4416S burner to an Adaptec
> 19160 on the 2.5.65 kernel it locked up in the scan
> as you reported. My Tekram 390U3W with the sym53c8xx_2
> driver didn't have this problem. I haven't had the need
> to burn a CD-R recently. I have downloaded Justin's
> latest aic7xxx driver but haven't loaded it yet.

It seems to be using some kind of ioctl.

-- wli