Hello, I have two DVD drives, one connected to the SATA port (LG) the other to the IDE port (PHILIPS) of a via chipset. They are driven by VIA SATA support (SATA_VIA) and VIA PATA support (PATA_VIA).
When I write an iso image to the drive on the SATA port /dev/sr0 it has some extra bytes on disk which make the disk unreadable. Writing to the IDE drive /dev/sr1 works well. A simple test with a DVD RAM and dd instead of growisofs dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/srX bs=1024k count=10 and a readback afterwards dd if=/dev/srX of=imageX.bin bs=1024k count=10 gives me an all zero file from the IDE drive but a file full of probably scsi commands for the SATA drive and looks like 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00020000 2a 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 00020010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00040000 2a 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 00040010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00060000 2a 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 |*...............| 00060010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00061010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 00 c2 00 00 |........*.......| 00061020 40 00 00 00 00 c2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |@...............| 00061030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00081010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 01 02 00 00 |........*.......| 00081020 40 00 00 00 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |@...............| 00081030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000a1010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 01 42 00 00 |........*....B..| 000a1020 40 00 00 00 01 42 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |@....B..........| 000a1030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000c1010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 01 82 00 00 |........*.......| 000c1020 40 00 00 00 01 82 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |@...............| 000c1030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| I really need some hints to make the SATA drive usable, please. best Regards Gerold uname -a Linux blaubaer 2.6.24.2 #4 Sun Feb 24 21:50:21 CET 2008 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux lspvi -v 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V Deluxe/K8V-X/A8V Deluxe motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20 I/O ports at e800 [size=8] I/O ports at e400 [size=4] I/O ports at e000 [size=8] I/O ports at d800 [size=4] I/O ports at d400 [size=16] I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: sata_via 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/A8V Deluxe motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: pata_via cat /var/log/messages Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.3 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 10 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi3 : sata_via Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi4 : sata_via Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe800 ctl 0xe400 bmdma 0xd400 irq 20 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe000 ctl 0xd800 bmdma 0xd408 irq 20 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata4: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata5.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10, EL00, max UDMA/100 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10 EL00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer pata_via 0000:00:0f.1: version 0.3.3 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi5 : pata_via Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi6 : pata_via Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata6: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfc00 irq 14 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata7: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfc08 irq 15 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata6.00: ATAPI: PHILIPS SPD2411P, BP01, max UDMA/66 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata6.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer ata6.00: configured for UDMA/33 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM PHILIPS SPD2411P BP01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 Feb 25 18:20:57 blaubaer sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/