Re: xcdroast atapi mode failure (fc2)

["Paul R. Ganci" <ganci nurdog com>]

charles f. zeitler wrote:

> when i try to burn a cd with xcdroast,
> atapi mode, it bombs.
>
>
> here is the output from xcdroast:
>
> Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD
> dev= "ATAPI:0,0,0" gracetime=2 fs=4096k
> driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=12 -dao -eject
> -pad -data "/home/all/isos/sorcerer-ia32-20040513.iso"
> ...
>
> scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0'
> devname: 'ATAPI'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre
> alpha.
> Warning: There may be fatal problems.
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version
> with DVD support
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord
> -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present
> in the original.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try
> 'cdrecord dev=help'.
I spent the better part of yesterday researching this problem. From what 
I can figure the problem (see a k3b related bugzilla bug 122096) results 
because of recent changes to cdrecord which requires that it be called 
with --dev=/dev/scdX instead of --dev=X,X,X for SCSI drives and I am 
guessing --dev=/dev/hda for IDE drives. I suspect that xcdroast is 
calling cdrecord with the old --dev parameterization. For example on my 
SCSI system my writer has an old SCSI specification of 0,5,0. The 
following shell command:

cdrecord --dev=0,5,0 driveropts=help -checkdrive

yields

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
<warly mandrakesoft com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
this version.
scsidev: '0,5,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 5 lun: 0
cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/pg5'. Cannot open SCSI 
driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you 
are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

However if I use

cdrecord --dev=/dev/scd1 driveropts=help -checkdrive

I get:

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
<warly mandrakesoft com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
this version.
scsidev: '/dev/scd1'
devname: '/dev/scd1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 
04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC
Vendor_info    : 'YAMAHA  '
Identifikation : 'CRW2100S        '
Revision       : '1.0N'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Driver options:
None supported for this drive.

For k3b there is a new spec file for k3b-0.11.9-4 and a SCSI patch to 
fix the problem. When I run xcdroast I have the same problem as you so I 
moved to k3b because I could take the spec file and patch and compile a 
version that works on my SCSI system. Probably xcdroast could be patched 
in the same manner, but I didn't attempt that ...  I just decided it was 
time to move to k3b.

I don't know if this will help you, but maybe someone else can suggest 
something better.

--
Paul (ganci nurdog com)