2006/7/7, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have an IDE DVD writer connected to a USB to IDE adaptor. I get errors
>trying to burn DVDs or CDRWs, but I did succeeded erasing a CDRW.
>Here is the output I get:
>/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.17-1-686
>/usr/bin/cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
>/usr/bin/cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or
Solaris.
>scsidev: '7,0,0'
>scsibus: 7 target: 0 lun: 0
You are running the Linux alpha kernel series (2.6). In this alpha software
series, frequent unannounced incompatible interface changes are common.
I'm running the current kernel from debian unstable.
These interface changes make user land commands like cdrecord fail.
If you are using developer grade alpha kernels, you of course need to
use userland programs that are _newer_ than the kernel and that have already
been updated to work around the incompatible kernel interface changes.
I'm running the current cdrecord from debian unstable.
>Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg
Schilling
This version of cdrecord is 14 months old, 14 months older than your kernel!
>/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg
(debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004
J. Schilling').
This indicates that you are not using an official version of cdrecord but
a version that has been bastardized by Debian and that implements bugs that
are not present in the original.
This is one of the reasons why I report my bugs to debian bug tracking
systems, and not directly upstream.
>/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. read buffer: scsi sendcmd: no error
>CDB: 3C 00 00 00 00 00 00 FC 00 00
>status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
This is most likely a problem caused by an incompatibility introduced by
Linux-2.6.16 and the official cdrecord already implements a workaround for
this imcompatibility....
It seems that there is already a bug report about the new version.
As it seems that Debian maintainers do not take their users for serious anymore
and did not update cdrtools for a long time, I am no longer sure whether
they still know about the Debian roots and about it's early people Bruce Perens
who did write the Debian social conteact guidelines (see remark at the
bottom of http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php).
Some Debian maintainers recently started to ignore the Debian social contract:
http://www.debian.org/social_contract which is identical to
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php.
That's too bad.
I recommend to just use the original from:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
I'll try that.
It is true and (opensource.org aproved) free Opensource Software
Just avoid the versions from Debian that limit your freedom......
If you don't like debian so much, why are you on its bug system? I
didn't send this bug report to you.
--
Haggai Eran
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