Yes indeed mine, and probably Alain's also, is a B model. I have opened up the cover
on
mine and there is one major chip in there a Shuttle Technologies USBAT-02. Yours
reports
itself as Product "HP USB CD-Writer Plus" while mine reports itself as HP Mesa
(Probably
short for HP MESsed up Again) One wonders if this Shuttle chip is customer or even
field
programmable or if it is a special mask made by shuttle for HP. You at least can get
your model
recognized, mine gets bogged down with errors requiring Bus and Host resets.
Blisster
Gerrit Hiddink wrote:
> >
> > I also have an HP USB CD-Writer Plus, 8200 series (207 version) and am
> > getting
> > pretty much the same results as Alain. My questions to you are 1 - the unit you
> > had
> > mounted and reading was it a type 107 or 207? and 2 - do you remember what
> > kernel version you were testing with. My current results are with pre7-6.
>
> I just noticed on the HP website the following:
>
> "There are two revisions of external USB 8200e/8210e drives. To verify
> which version you have, locate the product model number on the
> bottom or back of your drive. If the drive model number ends with an
> "A" then your drive is compatible with the built-in Windows 2000
> driver. If your drive model number ends with a "B" then a driver update
> is required. "
>
> So it seems that there are indeed two models in the 8200e series. I
> have a "C4453A", so I bet yours ends with "B". This identification might
> also help future users to select the right USB driver for their model.
>
> I have been playing around with cdrecord 1.8.1 (with linux patch, kernel
> 2.3.99-pre7) to see if I can write CD's. It says my CD writer is the
> following (libscg version "schily-0.1", command used:
> cdrecord -dev=/dev/sga -inq)
>
> Devicy type: Removable CD-ROM
> Version: 2
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info: 'HP '
> Identifikation: 'CD-Writer+ 8200'
> Revision: '1.0f'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW
>
> So far so good.
>
> However, when I try to write a CD-RW disc, it reports the following:
>
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
> cdrecord: I/O error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 C0
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) error refers to command part, bit ptr 0 (not
> valid) field ptr 0
> cmd finished after 0.121s timeout 240s
>
> Nothing was written (as far as I could check). I also tried the 'blank'
> command with several different options, I'm getting about the same
> error.
>
> The usb-storage module does not seem to know the commands that are
> issued?
>
> usb-storage.c: Command <NULL> (10 bytes)
> usb-storage.c: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> usb-storage.c: Bulk xfer 0xc0430000(16)
> usb-storage.c: bulk_msg returned 0 xferred 16/16
> usb-storage.c: CB data stage result is 0x0
> usb-storage.c: -- CB transport device requiring auto-sense
>
> cdrecord -prcap -dev=/dev/sga gives the following:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Drive capabilities, per page 2A:
>
> Does read CD-R media
> Does write CD-R media
> Does read CD-RW media
> Does write CD-RW media
> Does not read DVD-ROM media
> Does not read DVD-R media
> Does not write DVD-R media
> Does not read DVD-RAM media
> Does not write DVD-RAM media
> Does support test writing
>
> Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
> Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
> Does read digital audio blocks
> Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately
> Does not support BURN-Proof (Sanyo)
> Does read multi-session CDs
> Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2
> Does not read CD bar code
> Does not read R-W subcode information
> Does return CD media catalog number
> Does return CD ISRC information
> Does not support C2 error pointers
> Does not deliver composite A/V data
>
> Does play audio CDs
> Number of volume control levels: 256
> Does support individual volume control setting for each channel
> Does support independent mute setting for each channel
> Does not support digital output on port 1
> Does not support digital output on port 2
>
> Loading mechanism type: tray
> Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command
> Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper
> Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command
> Is not currently in a media-locked state
> Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature
> Does not support Individual Disk Present feature
>
> Maximum read speed in kB/s: 4234
> Current read speed in kB/s: 4234
> Maximum write speed in kB/s: 706
> Current write speed in kB/s: 176
> Buffer size in KB: 2048
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> which is all very correct.
>
> Does anybody have a clue as to what is the problem here? Is the usb-scsi
> bridge capable of handling CD write commands?
>
> Regards, Grit
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