ATAPI CD writer on DS10 with Tru64 5.1a

From: Cagnard Paul-Jean (paul-jean.cagnard@nagra.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 10:02:48 EST


Hello,

I have tried to use a Plextor W4012TA CD-ROM writer on a DS10 with Tru64
5.1a and cdrecord. I can get drive info, eject disks, blank a CD-RW, mount
CDs, extract audio data, but when I try to write a CD, when the first track
is to be sent, everything stops and nothing gets ever written.

After that the drive seems to be in a bad state, I can't eject the disc by
pushing the eject button, I have to power cycle the drive.

Do you have any idea about how I could make it work? Any kernel/cam option
to change?

Thanks.

Here is a transcript of one of my attempts:

secbb01# ./cdrecord -v dev=0,1,0 speed=0 -data ../cd.image
Cdrecord 1.11a40 (alphaev6-dec-osf5.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W4012A'
Revision : '1.03'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 2394336 = 2338 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 75 MB
Total size: 86 MB (08:33.26) = 38495 sectors
Lout start: 86 MB (08:35/20) = 38495 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 3
  Reference speed: 6
  Is not unrestricted
  Is erasable
  Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1)
  ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00)
  ATIP start of lead out: 333750 (74:12/00)
  1T speed low: 4 1T speed high: 10
  2T speed low: 4 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 6)
  power mult factor: 1 5
  recommended erase/write power: 5
  A1 values: 24 1A D8
  A2 values: 26 B2 4A
Disk type: Phase change
Manuf. index: 0
Manufacturer: Illegal Manufacturer code
Blocks total: 333750 Blocks current: 333750 Blocks remaining: 295255
RBlocks total: 336246 RBlocks current: 336246 RBlocks remaining: 297751
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0

Track 01: 0 of 75 MB written../cdrecord: I/O error. write_g1: scsi
sendcmd: cmd timeout after 104.673 (40) s
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
Sense Bytes:
Sense Key: 0xFFFFFFFF [], Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 104.673s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 0 bytes

-- 
Paul-Jean Cagnard
"Gianna Nannini, pourquoi tant de N ?"


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