[Gllug] How can a write to a re-writable cd?

[Lee Blackwell]

I'm writing to CD's using a CDRW module in my Dell lappy, using the basic
scsi-ide module, mkisofs and cdrecord.

Can I assume that the hardware is being detected correctly? Have you
checked dmesg, or does the drive read normal CD's?

Lee

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Lee Blackwell
Unix Specialist, NCS, 3com IT.
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Lesh wrote:

>
> Hi,
> 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.
> Using fdisk also complains about the zero size and syslog suggests that
> command (0) (Test Unit Ready) fails!
> 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.
> Thanking you in advance,
> Lesh.
> lzz at breathemail.net


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