Thanks, Jörg, Assuming there's no magic solution in the SCSI trace I just sent out, I'll follow up in a few hours with the results of testing cdrecord in my WinXP install and my try at it with the SchilliX CD. I'm downloading it now and it looks like it should be done by the time I'm ready to try it out.
-Joe. On 9/10/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joe MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please try to run cdrecord on a different OS (e.g. Solaris or Win32). > > > > > > I'm not at the affected machine right now, so it'll be a few more hours > > before I get a chance, but I'll give that a try. I don't have a Solaris > x86 > > version, but since I'm already dual-booting into WinXP, trying a Win32 > > cdrecord should be easy. > > Thank you! > > > Your mail does not include any hint to the problem but other similar > > > reports make it highly probable that this is caused by a bug in the > Linux > > > kernel. > > > > > > I'll be happy to try whatever diagnostics you want me to try if we can > find > > the source of the problem. I just want to either get it working or be > > reasonably confident I know what the root cause is. As you say here, > > there's not much to go on right now, but my feeling has been that it was > > something in the linux kernel as well. > > You may already run on Linux (via "script") > > cdrecord -checkdrive -V > > and remove the last part that only contains calls to "read buffer". > > The mode select calls show the right information for debugging. > > > When I get a chance to try this with Windows, I'll follow up. It'll be > six > > hours or so at least before I get there. > > If it also does not work on Windows, I would like to see a test on > Solaris. > > You may do this with without installing things by e.g. running a SchilliX > CD > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/SchilliX-0.5.2.iso.bz2 > > if a bit old but should be sufficient for you for a simple test. > > The nice thing with Solaris is that you get more than 16 bytes of Sense > data > which may include a byte/bit pointer for "illegal byte in CDB" messages. > > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 > Berlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > -- -Joe.
