Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Geoffrey
Joachim Feise wrote: I'm trying to figure out where to locate the firmware info. I've checked /var/log/messages, dmesg output and /proc, but no luck. Suggestions? [...] Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-RW 52XMax ' '161D' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'GENERIC ' 'DVD

Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and that there exists very few enthousiasm to fix it. A bit of further research showed that

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] JS The recent Linux kernels are full of IDE related bugs :-( Here I can mostly agree - several IDE drivers have bugs, mostly DMA related (sine most of IDE is DMA nowadays). In addition people report their IRQ routing bugs as IDE when IDE IRQ doesn't happen but

Re: Error under OSX

2003-12-18 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:20:18PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Track 01: 23 of 4472 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 1.0x. 1.97% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 17 22:18:40 2003 ... Track 01: 4408 of 4472 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 1.0x.100.00% done, estimate finish Wed Dec

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Geoffrey
Andy Polyakov wrote: 0,1,0 1) 'GENERIC ' 'DVD DUAL 4XMax ' '2.17' Removable CD-ROM ^^^ Right here... I also uses dvd+rw-mediainfo. Your info shows that your drive is the Optorite, and not the BTC that my I/O Magic uses. The 2.17 firmware info is the

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2003-12-18 Thread alex
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Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread csj
On 17. December 2003 at 9:21PM +0100, Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. I had

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
James Finnall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg The drive appears to back to functioning once again. I had to reboot several times. I was able to do what I wanted to do though

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: May be the firmware of the drive is not very stable or Linux did hang. I would suspect the firmware first. I had a similar problem with my A104 before I upgraded the firmware, which doesn't prove it IS the firmware, but that firmware can cause just these problems.

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: PS: Andy, I guess I didn't make it clear in my original post but the system was kernel panicing. Since I never was at console all those times, I never had seen the actuall OOPs, but caps and scroll lock were flashing which told me it was a kernel panic. After your comment,

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: Given all this, My question is should I test out another IDE cable given how ide-scsi works but has issues and ide-cd is horribly slow, or does the behavior rule out it being the ide cable's fault? I can always try out another cable if someone thinks it'll help. Of course!

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: OK, requestor has reported that readcd performs at 2-3x accompanied by irresonsiveness of the system. This *does* appear as lack of DMA and it agrees pretty well with those reports from NEC users I mentioned yesterday. Yes, DMA must be off (or not being used on that

Plextor PX-W1210A

2003-12-18 Thread Shaun Jackman
I have the following two drives installed on my system: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R1202' '1026' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W1210A' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM The Plextor works fine. Every disk I burn with the Toshiba has problems though. I can mount the disk and

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Geoffrey
Joachim Feise wrote: I'm trying to figure out where to locate the firmware info. I've checked /var/log/messages, dmesg output and /proc, but no luck. Suggestions? [...] Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-RW 52XMax ' '161D' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'GENERIC ' 'DVD

Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Andy, dear list, I just read the release notes for the still-wet 2.6.0 Linux kernel. Among other thigs is mentioned the fact that the ide-scsi emulation module is currently broken in this kernel, and that there exists very few enthousiasm to fix it. A bit of further research showed that

Re: Error under OSX

2003-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just tried to burn a DVD under OSX: Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a11 (powerpc-apple-macosx1.4) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Unlocked features: ProDVD Clone Limited features: This copy of cdrecord is licensed for:

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Kuwanger
Volker, are you using ide-scsi or ide-cd? I always use ide-scsi with burners and so far never had trouble with it. It's also required for Andy's random write patch. Btw you can change that at run-time by reloading modules ide-cd and ide-scsi (need to rmmod some other modules first). Both grab

Re: Geting rid of ide-scsi ?

2003-12-18 Thread Andy Polyakov
A bit of further research showed that the recent incarnations of cdrecord and cdrecord-Prodvd can use plain old /dev/hdx IDE device interface. I also understand that this feature can also be used on 2.4.x). However, the manual for dvd+rw-tools (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) still

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Andy Polyakov
0,1,0 1) 'GENERIC ' 'DVD DUAL 4XMax ' '2.17' Removable CD-ROM ^^^ Right here... I also uses dvd+rw-mediainfo. Your info shows that your drive is the Optorite, and not the BTC that my I/O Magic uses. The 2.17 firmware info is the giveaway.

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] JS The recent Linux kernels are full of IDE related bugs :-( Here I can mostly agree - several IDE drivers have bugs, mostly DMA related (sine most of IDE is DMA nowadays). In addition people report their IRQ routing bugs as IDE when IDE IRQ doesn't happen but

Re: Error under OSX

2003-12-18 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:20:18PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Track 01: 23 of 4472 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 1.0x. 1.97% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 17 22:18:40 2003 ... Track 01: 4408 of 4472 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 1.0x.100.00% done, estimate finish Wed Dec

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Geoffrey
Andy Polyakov wrote: 0,1,0 1) 'GENERIC ' 'DVD DUAL 4XMax ' '2.17' Removable CD-ROM ^^^ Right here... I also uses dvd+rw-mediainfo. Your info shows that your drive is the Optorite, and not the BTC that my I/O Magic uses. The 2.17 firmware info is the

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Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread csj
On 17. December 2003 at 9:21PM +0100, Markus Plail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, what does CSS have to do with read speed? Some drives limit the reading speed for CSS scrambled discs. For some there are firmware hacks available to cirumvent them. I had

Re: I/O Magic idvdrw4db

2003-12-18 Thread Lourens Veen
On Thu 18 December 2003 17:38, Geoffrey wrote: Andy Polyakov wrote: As it's SANYO/Optorite unit, you probably should keep in mind issues discussed in Dual format DVD burner drive problem thread. Summary there is that DVD+RW support (and DVD+RW support only to my best knowledge) appears

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
James Finnall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you try cdrecord-ProDVD? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ Jörg The drive appears to back to functioning once again. I had to reboot several times. I was able to do what I wanted to do though and

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: PS: Andy, I guess I didn't make it clear in my original post but the system was kernel panicing. Since I never was at console all those times, I never had seen the actuall OOPs, but caps and scroll lock were flashing which told me it was a kernel panic. After your comment,

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Kuwanger wrote: Given all this, My question is should I test out another IDE cable given how ide-scsi works but has issues and ide-cd is horribly slow, or does the behavior rule out it being the ide cable's fault? I can always try out another cable if someone thinks it'll help. Of course!

Re: Pioneer DVR-106D issues

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Andy Polyakov wrote: OK, requestor has reported that readcd performs at 2-3x accompanied by irresonsiveness of the system. This *does* appear as lack of DMA and it agrees pretty well with those reports from NEC users I mentioned yesterday. Yes, DMA must be off (or not being used on that particular

Re: Dual format DVD burner drive problem

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Bogus
Joerg Schilling wrote: May be the firmware of the drive is not very stable or Linux did hang. I would suspect the firmware first. I had a similar problem with my A104 before I upgraded the firmware, which doesn't prove it IS the firmware, but that firmware can cause just these problems.

Plextor PX-W1210A

2003-12-18 Thread Shaun Jackman
I have the following two drives installed on my system: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R1202' '1026' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W1210A' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM The Plextor works fine. Every disk I burn with the Toshiba has problems though. I can mount the disk and