Re: DVD burner failure on FreeBSD: the LUN appears to be stuck

2013-06-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am not a skilled user of FreeBSD but have knowledge about DVD burners and growisofs. > growisofs is from dvd+rw-tools-7.1, which hasn't been updated from 2008. That's the current release. It should be ok for DVD burning. > :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=7fe10h, keep retrying

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, there are problems in fs/cd9660 concerning multi-session, if the new session was written to addresses above 4 GiB. $ fetch https://dev.haiku-os.org/raw-attachment/ticket/8473/reloc_dir.iso.bz2 $ bunzip2 reloc_dir.iso.bz2 # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f reloc_dir.iso md1 # mount_cd9660 /d

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > for now i add -udf when using mkisofs and mount_udf reads fine. anyway i > would be happy to see fully working ISO filesystem, I am not a FreeBSD hacker but just lurking here for the topics of ISO 9660 and SCSI command transport to DVD burners. So i lack the knowledge to develop a patch. Ne

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > mkisofs -rJ --iso-level 3 -o /path_to/file.iso . > and i see TWO 4 gigabyte files with the same name! This happens too on my "8.0-STABLE Mar 23 14:55:20 CET 2010". FreeBSD is probably not alone with this. An example image can be found at https://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/8473/fi

Did something change with ioctl CAMIOCOMMAND from 8.0 to 9.0 ?

2012-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, googling brought me to this forum post http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=172885 which reports that xfburn fails to recognize optical drives on FreeBSD 9.0. There are error messages about a ioctl which might be emitted by libburn for getting a list of drives: xfburn: error sendin

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) Just wait until the holodiscs come out. :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook. I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development. > My disk worked in VBox, so I'm sure it is just a netbook thing. I > also use that disk as my "install" disk, so I'm not sure exactly w

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Da Rock wrote: > It shows isolinux 4.04, blah blah, and a blinking cursor. It goes no further > than that, which I why I commented that it seemed an unlikely solution. If it can say "isolinux" then the boot process has succeeded as far as the boot sectors of the ISO image are responsible.

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > The trick is called "isohybrid". Luigi Rizzo wrote: > interesting. It does work for me indeed. So why not for Da Rock ? > And it might be a nice trick for our images too, so we don't > have to build a memstick and an ISO image... I would be happy to help with that. I am the developer

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vitaly Magerya : > > you might want to try to dd the iso image directly onto USB instead; there > > where talks that Ubuntu would support this starting at 11.10. Da Rock : > Nada. Tried that and it didn't work. I'm not sure how that would work given > that it uses isolinux to boot- ergo needs

Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

2010-08-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michel Talon wrote: > menuentry "FreeBSD (on /dev/sda4)" { >insmod ufs2 >set root='(hd0,4,a)' >kfreebsd /boot/loader > } wheras i wrote: > Booting is done by the GRUB2 1.98 > menuentry "FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE on Partition 1" { >set root=(hd0,1,a) >freebsd

Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

2010-08-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Primary partitions: > Windows XP, FreeBSD 9-current, FreeBSD 7-stable > Extended partition: > FAT32 data volume, Ubuntu Linux > menuentry "FreeBSD 9-Current amd64" { > set root=(hd0,3) > chainloader +1 > } Did you already try : set root=(hd0,3,a) freebsd /boot/loader

Solved: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i now have running the eSATA attached DVD drive with 150 MB/s on 8-STABLE and 8-RELEASE. Done by switching from ata to ahci as described by Juergen Lock in http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70510.html and the given link to Ivan Vora's http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blo

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I guess if you feel uncomfortable you could also > `practice' using a VM, taking a snapshot before you > start the upgrade... I do have backups. :)) (Dumb compressed partition images on DVD when a rescue Linux was booted. Plus MBR copies.) > you want RELENG_8 So i am downloading FreeBS

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > I found a similar PR > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70510.html > > Hm thats my post, wrong link? :) Indeed. I copied the wrong URL from my mail to mav. The PR is at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/144151 This here would match my theory:

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I have Cc'd mav@ who afaik did most of the ahci(4) work, I found a similar PR http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70510.html and bothered mav for instructions how to upgrade to a system that would suffice for diagnosing. Meanwhile i suspect that there is a general

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the switch to ahci was successful and it looks quite good, overall. But probably i found a bug. I could need advise where and how to submit it. A particular sequence of SCSI commands leads to an elsewise harmless stall of the dialog between libburn and drive. To close and re-open the libcam

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > A leadout track. Sounds very CD-ish. > > With DVD and BD one should rather go for READ > > DISC INFORMATION and READ TRACK INFORMATION. Juergen Lock wrote: > Hmm you might want to followup on the PR with that hint... First i should become a less clueless newbie and get all my own stuff s

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > I'm using ahci with two ATA/IDE DVD drives and they work as long as I > have "device ata" in my kernel config. That's all I need. So i will probably need that for the IDE DVD-ROM drive that is built in too. Juergen Lock wrote: > thanks for trying to help improving l

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Juergen Lock gave me a lot to read about > ahci(4) on FreeBSD >= 8.0 The proposed solution points me to a third way how a contemporary burner can be driven by FreeBSD. The purpose of my FreeBSD installation is to improve libburn on FreeBSD and to provide support for FreeBSD users. I.e. i wan

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > Can you show `pciconf -l` output? # pciconf -l hos...@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x50001458 chip=0x79111002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 pc...@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x79121002 chip=0x79121002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 pc...@pci0:0:6:0: class=0x060400

How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am looking for a way to curb SATA speed to 1.5 GBit/s to avoid write failures with an eSATA attached DVD burner. I tried this as superuser: # atacontrol mode acd1 current mode = SATA300 # atacontrol mode acd1 SATA150 current mode = SATA300 # atacontrol mode acd1 current mode =

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2010-02-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi > I was looking at your Linux code here and thought > the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work. Linux 2.6.18, /dev/hda and /dev/sr0, with a CD-RW written by write type TAO lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END)= 636499968 lseek(fd, -1, SEEK_END)=636499967 lseek(fd, -300k, SEEK_END)= 6361927