From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.5.56-mm1 fails to detect cd burner Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:03:29 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030331060329.GY13178@holomorphy.com> References: <20030311063627.GJ1399@holomorphy.com> <20030311160358.GN465@holomorphy.com> <3196100000.1047914843@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030318211357.GA1232@holomorphy.com> <20030329134951.GJ13178@holomorphy.com> <20030330212439.GU13178@holomorphy.com> <58090000.1049063164@caspian.scsiguy.com> <20030331052947.GW13178@holomorphy.com> <3E87D73E.5030107@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E87D73E.5030107@torque.net> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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