On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 15:52, James Conner wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2003 05:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 17:22, James Conner wrote:
> > > I have a friend running MDK 9.1 with a CDROM on /dev/hdd and a Yamaha
> > > CDRW on /dev/hdc.  Both are emulated scsi via /etc/lilo.conf.  When you
> > > try to do a cd to cd copy in XCDRoast, it gives the following error:
> > > Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=0,0,0
> > > gracetime=2 fs=8192k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo
> > > speed=44 -dao -eject -pad tsize=0s -data -
> > >
> > > scsidev: '0,0,0'
> > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> <SNIP>
> > > Here's a copy of cdrecord -scanbus:
> > > cdrecord -scanbus
> > > Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
> > > Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> > > scsibus0:
> > >         0,0,0     0) 'YAMAHA  ' 'CRW-F1E         ' '1.0b' Removable
> > > CD-ROM cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
> > > capabilities page. 0,1,0     1) 'NEC     ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:28D' '3.03'
> > > Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0     2) *
> > >         0,3,0     3) *
> > >         0,4,0     4) *
> > >         0,5,0     5) *
> > >         0,6,0     6) *
> > >         0,7,0     7) *
> > >
> > > Jim
> >
> > Jim,
> >    First did cdrao get installed (it's needed but not always there.)
> >
> >    Just as a test if you put the needed cd in both drives (one blank one
> > real of course) and do
> >
> > cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=44 -isosize /dev/cdrom
> >
> > (on /dev/cdrom, this should match the device of your cdrom itself not
> > the cd-burner.)
> >
> > Does that work?  If so that means that hardware is 100% as far as config
> > and recognition goes, next move on to the program itself and start
> > plugging away.  (BTW the above works great for me, I never have tried to
> > learn any of the gui's *grin*)
> >
> > James
> 
> Well, we checked to see if cdrdao was installed, it was.  Made a few minor 
> modifications in /etc/modules.conf to ignore hdc and hdd for ide-cdrom 
> module. Double checked everything.  Tried your cdrecord command above, it 
> failed.  Tried to have XCDRoast create a cd image to burn from, in other 
> words a 2 stage burn process rather than a burn on the fly.  It failed 
> reading from the cdrom and created a zero byte file for the image and toc 
> files.  Then we used XCDRoast to burn some files off the hard drive without 
> any trouble.
> Now we've narrowed down the problem.  The NEC CDROM Drive:28D with firmware 
> 3.03 doesn't like the kernel or cdrecord for MDK 9.1.  We searched for a 
> firmware update on NEC's and Dell's web site and came up with nothing.  Not 
> sure of the exact model number stamped/printed on the drive.  It was getting 
> too late to open the case and find out.  Anyone know of a good web site that 
> has firmware updates for various stuff, kind of like www.drivers.com?  I have 
> a Toshiba 32X(Model XM-6302B) that I could put in there and hope that it 
> doesn't have the same problem.  Any ideas from anybody about this?
> 
> Jim

Your gonna hate me for this one... But have you tried www.firmware.com? 
(I'm not being funny it's a real site.) It might have it.

James



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