My Teac SCSI CD writer recently died, and being unable to find a similar replacement without spending a fortune, I eventually settled on a PlexWriter 24/10/40a ATAPI drive to replace it. I've installed it and the kernel finds it without problems using the ide-scsi module: Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W2410A Rev: 1.04 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 But I have been unable to successfully write a complete CD without ide-scsi crapping out on me: Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: ide-scsi: scatter gather table too small, padding with zeros Jun 12 12:26:53 starfleet kernel: hdd: lost interrupt ...and so on, until I *REBOOT* the machine (grr...). Google didn't help me much, except to give me the sinking feeling that this is a problem with the ide-scsi code in the later 2.4.2x kernels. For the record, I'm using a dual PIII-600 machine with 512MB RAM, two 20GB HDs on the first IDE channel, a 48x CD-ROM drive (master) and the PlexWriter (slave) on the second channel, two "real" (non-emulated) SCSI channels; the first with two DLT tape drives and the second with a 5x47GB software RAID array. My cd-write attempts with the PlexWriter have been writing files from the RAID array to the CD writer; the master CD-ROM drive that shares the IDE channel with the PlexWriter has been empty. Any ideas on how to solve this? -- -John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
