Hi All! I am trying to enable cd-writing with my Asus L3800 Laptop which has a toshiba SD-R21021715 combo DVD-CDR/RW I am running Debian Woody with the 2.4.20 Kernel from Kernel.org. The kernel has been patched with acpi & Asus tweak (which is working really well!!)
Currently I have enabled sccsi emulation & disabled ide cdrom in the kernel. The system boots fine and I can read cd's without any problems.. Unfortunately I can't burn em! I am using xcdroast. output from cdrecord -scanbus gives me: Cdrecord 2.01a07 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1715' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * error from cdrecord is: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=0,0,0 gracetime=2 fs=1024k -v driveropts=burnfree speed=8 -eject -multi -pad tsize=255159s - scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Cdrecord 2.01a07 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 3 = CD-ROM XA mode 2 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' Revision : '1715' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R Drive buf size : 1312768 = 1282 KB FIFO size : 1048576 = 1024 KB Track 01: data 498 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 572 MB (56:42.34) = 255176 sectors Lout start: 572 MB (56:44/26) = 255176 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 104673 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real TAO mode for multi session. cdrecord: Premature EOF on stdin. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input buffer error, aborting. input buffer ready. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. This error seems to be the same regardless of whether I have ide cdrom enabled in the kernel or not so I am not sure if I needed to disable ide cdrom or not. as the cd's can be read, I am happy to leave it as is but need to know how to make the little blighter write to cd's.. Halp! Assuming I can get my writer working, how would I go about duplicating my current setup to a cd (preferably bootable) so I can then install this set-up onto another machine? Cheers, Ben.