On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Stefan Jaschke wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2001 14:15, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > This is really strange, are you sure your drive is ok? Does mounting
> > dvd-rom and cd-rom's work fine?
>
> OK. I'll check again with 2.4.4-pre4+patches:
> (1) Mounting the SuSE DVD-ROM (-t iso9660) from /dev/hdc on /dvd and
> reading from /dvd works. Same for CD-ROMs. I don't have a formatted
> DVD-RAM.
> (2) Reading with "dd if=/dev/hdc ..."
> (2.1) works with CD-ROM inserted
> (2.2) fails with DVD-ROM inserted
dd fails with DVD-ROM inserted??? In the same way? Is this the SuSE DVD,
and not a movie DVD? Also, check dmesg for errors.
> (2.3) fails with DVD-RAM inserted
> (3) Writing with "dd of=/dev/hdc ..." works (with DVD-RAM inserted).
> (4) "mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc" fails (with DVD-RAM inserted).
Side note -- use as big a block size as you can for a DVD-RAM hosted fs,
4kB is better than 2kB.
> As if the drive gives the driver wrong information (like size=0)?
Could be, try
cat /proc/ide/hdc/capacity
and see what that says.
But at least it looks like your drive is just fine.
> If nothing helps, I have to plug the drive into a Windows machine
> to make sure it really works with Toshiba's own drivers. This would
> be a major hassle, though. No place for Windows on my own machine.
Lets not go that far yet :)
> Hence some amount of screwing... :-(
And lets stick to hardware for now, ok? :-)
--
Jens Axboe
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