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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm using a HP cd writer 9300 series and Linux 2.4
loads the scsi-ide module to handle it. Although ytree can read from disks
that are mounted a simple command like od -ha /dev/hdd returns zero size even
though media is loaded. It seems impossible to write to this device.
Is there something silly I'm missing or is it just not possible to write to cd
writers (or mine in particular). I'm using Mandrake 8.0.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Using fdisk also complains about the zero size
and syslog suggests that command (0) (Test Unit Ready) fails!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd happily alter the scsi-ide.c module (which
emulates a SCSI interface for ide drives) if I knew where I could get an ATAPI
spec for the drive, but the HP web site seems to have only "user"
documentation - nothing seriously technical. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanking you in advance,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lesh.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
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