On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 04:39, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > > > sg 28513 0 > > scsi_mod 105360 1 sg > > it looks like i accidently unplugged my scanner..i'll make sure the cf reader is unplugged now > These two are here... > > > > > cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data > > > > Now this is progress! You see not only your drive was recognized but > it started the process of writing on it as well! Notice that we passed > the flag for DAO (disk at once) session BUT ... > > ... your drive does not support that mode! So you have to pick one of > TAO or SAO or the rest for next time! > I redid it again and this time it seems to have worked. i thaught my drive supported dao so i tried that again. cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data /home/obsidian/kde/linspire-full-4.5.499.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI. Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'AOPEN ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5232 ' Revision : '1.03' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 (current) Profile: 0x000A Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 545 MB Total size: 626 MB (62:02.37) = 279178 sectors Lout start: 626 MB (62:04/28) = 279178 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 6 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6) ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 80668 Forcespeed is OFF. Speed set to 9173 KB/s Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52.0 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. trackno=0 BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 545 of 545 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 47.8x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 571756544/571756544 (279178 sectors). Writing time: 122.448s Average write speed 32.5x. Min drive buffer fill was 97% Fixating... Fixating time: 3.483s cdrecord: fifo had 9006 puts and 9006 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 4414 times full, min fill was 53%. > Notice this error message as well! It tells you to blank the media > first before you use it, unless you want to continue on a multisession > that is.Keep reading! > Ok. So insert the same CDRW now on the drive and give the command: > > cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 blank=fast -data -multi -sao > <some file here> > > and see what happens. Notice that I want that CF Card unplugged! > > This is good progress we are getting somewhere here! My theory is that > 'scsi_mod' that loads up to manage your CF card tries to manage your > CDRW as well. Let's make sure that it is right though and then we will > se how to deal with it. i am unplugging it now then will try and burn using k3b and see if that works > > Notice that you didnt' have to reboot once you unplugg the CF card > (this is not windoze) all you had to do is an 'lsmod' to make sure the > modules were unloaded, if for some reason they were not you could > manually in the right order unload them under root with: i know..still so used to windows i guess... > /sbin/rmmod sg > /sbin/rmmod sr_mod > /sbin/rmmod scsi_mod