Paul M wrote: > Hi all, > > I find I'm unable to coerce my mitsumi cd drive into writing a track. > I've been using it for years to read, which it does just fine, but it's > the first time I've attempted to write with this particular drive (I > can write just fine using other drives). > > Checking the 'Supported HW' page, I see mitsumi is generally supported, > except for the comment about the problematic driver device probe. > Perhaps this is what's biting me?
no. That's a very very early CDROM Mitsumi made that was popular for a late 1980s (or very early 1990s?) definition of "popular". You don't have one of those. *I* don't have one of those. :) (It used its own custom interface, not IDE). > The error is: > >cdio -f cd0c tao dummy.iso > cdio: mode select failed: 3 > > and the dmesg entries are: > cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <MITSUMI, CR-4804TE, 2.6C> SCSI0 5/cdrom > removable > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 > cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 1 ONCE AGAIN... if you know what parts of the dmesg we are interested in, you probably can answer your own question. (examples of what is missing: OS version, platform, stock vs. home-built kernel, IDE interface, ...) I wouldn't recommend putting the CDROM on the same IDE bus as the hard disk, but most likely, that's just a very old CDROM drive which probably belongs next to a bunch of my old drives (appears to be 2000 vintage) which just don't burn disks properly anymore. It happens. You could also try a different burner app, as a lot of early devices were, well, different... Nick.
