Re: DVD writer and IDE support (solved)...

2005-04-16 Thread aeriksson
All, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Thanks for that info! I'm starting to suspect media too. I'll try to >> wreste that firmware upgrade into it. Which firmware version are you >> using? > > I've got version R1.07 of the firmware. Through a very painful procedure I got w98 installed and bumped my f

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> > > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running > under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux > support was good, but I did run into two problems: > 1) I had to shop around till I found a brand of DVD-R (I have

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:35:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well there is a cdwrite mailing list hosted on lists.debian.org which is > a great place to figure out what weird errors are and such, and the > authors of the programs used for writing discs are on thoses lists too, > so you ma

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> > What brand/model drive is this? > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR http://usa.aopen.com/products/dvd+rw/DUW1608ARR.htm Should I consider changing it? (I got an 'if this doesn't run on Linux I can trade it in' warranty at the shop) > It is possible to get very weird errors if you have unsupporte

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -J -R /path/to/dir/with/less/than/4.5GB/of/files > > That should do it. To do scsi I suspect it would be /dev/sg0 or > /dev/scd0. I haven't actually tried burning in scsi emulation mode with > these driv

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well it does look odd that it loads with one and not the other. Which > kernel is this with? > It's with 2.6.11.7 > Does writing CDs and DVDs actually work using ide-scsi? Does it work > using ide-cd? Dunno yet. What's

DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
All, I've just gotten myself a new DVD burner which triggers some interesting events in the kernel. From the log: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc:

kswapd (& clock?) problems in 2.6.10

2005-01-15 Thread aeriksson
Since installing 2.6.10 kswapd has decided to loop wildly on two occations. Both occations happened after starting a big compiles. Checking vmstat, I noticed a steady stream of io/bi figures ranging between 2-5K (which is about what I can get out of this box during normal operation), but no swap i