I've been having problems getting my CD-Recorder to work under RH 6.1 It
was fine under 6.0.  I contacted the authors of the software that I use
(cdrecord & xcdroast) and they said that it looks like a bug in the kernel
scsi code.  I include below both e-mails with the details of the problem.

Paul Stillwell
stilpaul
stilpaul

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This is an impossible error.

There must be a bug in the sg.c code in the kernel.
Try to use a different Linux kernel.


>From stilpaul Thu Nov 18 05:34:53 1999

>    Like the title says, I'm not sure where the problem lies, however, I
>think it is in cdrecord.

>I'm using a vanilla RedHat 6.1 install on a P200 with 64 Meg Ram and a
>1.6 Mb H-disk.  I have a Matsushita cw-7502 burner,  a Toshiba 12x cd
>drive, and an Advansys SCSI card (IOMEGA Jazz Jet).  Things worked when
>I was running RedHat 6.0, however, I nuked and reinstalled with RH 6.1
>and now things don't work.  I nuked and installed Windoze98 and Easy
>CD-Creator and things worked.  I re-installed RH 6.1 and now they don't
>again <sigh>.  I'm sorry, but I really don't have much to go on other
>than the output from each of the programs.  I've looked for obvious
>things like it's a bad CD, but I've tried several from a manufacturer
>that I've had good success with (sony), and after failing under linux,
>they worked under Windoze.  Oh... I've verified that all of the SCSI
>connections are OK and re-seated the SCSI card.  Any help is
>appreciated.

>Thanx
>                Paul


>Here's the logfile recorded by Xcdroast (defined on the setup panel):

>Nov 17 23:57:06 XCDR 0.96e: Setup: Configuration saved
>Nov 17 23:57:11 XCDR 0.96e: entering Master-CD
>Nov 17 23:57:20 XCDR 0.96e: Write-Image from /burn/image1.raw, 250673152
>bytes, dummy=0
>Nov 17 23:57:20 XCDR 0.96e: Executing:
>/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1 -v speed=2 dev=0,05,00 -eject
>-data /burn/image1.raw
>Nov 17 23:58:23 XCDR 0.96e: Write-Image: Some error occured


>Here is the output from cdrecord (as distributed with RH6.1), the output
>was identical to the output from the version distributed with Xcdroast:

>[root@george /root]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,05,00 -eject -data
>/burn/image1.r
>aw
>Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jvrg Schilling
>TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>scsidev: '0,05,00'
>scsibus: 0 target: 5 lun: 0
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
>atapi: 0
>Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
>Version        : 2
>Response Format: 2
>Capabilities   : SYNC LINKED
>Vendor_info    : 'MATSHITA'
>Identifikation : 'CD-R   CW-7502  '
>Revision       : '4.10'
>Device seems to be: Matsushita CW-7502.
>Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
>Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
>Drive buf size : 1044288 = 1019 KB
>FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>Track 01: data  239 MB
>Total size:     274 MB (27:12.01) = 122401 sectors
>Lout start:     274 MB (27:14/01) = 122401 sectors
>Current Secsize: 2048
>ATIP info from disk:
>  Indicated writing power: 5
>  Is not unrestricted
>  Is not erasable
>  ATIP start of lead in:  -11689 (97:26/11)
>  ATIP start of lead out: 335550 (74:36/00)
>Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
>Manuf. index: 19
>Manufacturer: POSTECH Corporation
>Blocks total: 335550 Blocks current: 335550 Blocks remaining: 213149
>Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
>Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.

>Starting new track at sector: 0
>Track 01:   0 of 239 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1:
>scsi sen
>dcmd: no error
>CDB:  2A 00 00 00 01 20 00 00 10 00
>status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
>cmd finished after 13.013s timeout 40s

>write track data: error after 589824 bytes
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error

>CDB:  35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming
>ready) Fru 0x
>0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 120s
>Trouble flushing the cache
>Writing  time:   19.145s
>Fixating...
>cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
>retryable error
>CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 0002 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming
>ready) Fru 0x
>0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 480s
>Fixating time:   27.399s
>cdrecord: fifo had 146 puts and 19 gets.
>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 10 times full, min fill was 98%.



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On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:35:34PM -0500, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Like the title says, I'm not sure where the problem lies, however, I
> think it is in cdrecord.
>
> I'm using a vanilla RedHat 6.1 install on a P200 with 64 Meg Ram and a
> 1.6 Mb H-disk.  I have a Matsushita cw-7502 burner,  a Toshiba 12x cd
> drive, and an Advansys SCSI card (IOMEGA Jazz Jet).  Things worked when
> I was running RedHat 6.0, however, I nuked and reinstalled with RH 6.1
> and now things don't work.  I nuked and installed Windoze98 and Easy
> CD-Creator and things worked.  I re-installed RH 6.1 and now they don't
> again <sigh>.  I'm sorry, but I really don't have much to go on other
> than the output from each of the programs.  I've looked for obvious
> things like it's a bad CD, but I've tried several from a manufacturer
> that I've had good success with (sony), and after failing under linux,
> they worked under Windoze.  Oh... I've verified that all of the SCSI
> connections are OK and re-seated the SCSI card.  Any help is
> appreciated.

Looks like the kernel-driver of your scsi-card is causing problems...
Perhaps see if there are any compile-options for the scsi-driver and
tweak there a little.
No idea otherwise.

Good luck,

Thomas

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