Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE)

Stefan Jaschke
2001-04-19T12:44:42Z

On Thursday 19 April 2001 14:15, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This is really strange, are you sure your drive is ok? Does mounting
> dvd-rom and cd-rom's work fine?

OK. I'll check again with 2.4.4-pre4+patches:
(1) Mounting the SuSE DVD-ROM (-t iso9660) from /dev/hdc on /dvd and
reading from /dvd works. Same for CD-ROMs. I don't have a formatted
DVD-RAM.
(2) Reading with "dd if=/dev/hdc ..."
(2.1) works with CD-ROM inserted
(2.2) fails with DVD-ROM inserted
(2.3) fails with DVD-RAM inserted
(3) Writing with "dd of=/dev/hdc ..." works (with DVD-RAM inserted).
(4) "mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc" fails (with DVD-RAM inserted).

As if the drive gives the driver wrong information (like size=0)?

If nothing helps, I have to plug the drive into a Windows machine
to make sure it really works with Toshiba's own drivers. This would
be a major hassle, though. No place for Windows on my own machine.
Hence some amount of screwing... :-(

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Stefan R. Jaschke <stefan@jaschke-net.de>