On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Phil Quinton wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > OK. I've tried 2.6.13. The external caddy is a 5 1/4" so I swapped the H/D > for a DVD Writer. I've burned 5/6 DVD's on several different machines > successfully. I put it on the laptop (same wiring et al). If I put in a > pre-recorded CD, I can mount it and copy data from the CD with no trouble. I > compiled a CD .iso and attempted a "dummy" burn with cdrecord, It attempted > to write and hung. Tailing ...debug I find it hits the very same place as > before, same WRITE command and everything and just sits there for 30-40secs > and then it seems to kick itself and goes around again.. Stopping at the > same place each time.. The app (cdrecord) can't be CTRL-C'd at all.
Control-C might work if you wait long enough. But it could take tens of iterations through that 30-second loop. > Switching the external drive off is the only way to free the program. > > I'd like to find out what it's doing during that 30-40secs when it sits > there. Probably doing nothing, waiting for something to happen. > Would it help if I installed 98SE on the box and ran a usbsnoop program on > it? It might. If you have drivers for the Cardbus interface and so on. In the end you might find that the device doesn't work with Windows either. > Thanks again, > > Phil. > > PS. Debug logs can be provided albeit same as before. I'll take your word for it that it shows the same thing -- getting hung up on a WRITE command. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
