Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:40:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:40:11 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:35851 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:39:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:39:41 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: stefan@jaschke-net.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE) Message-ID: <20010418123941.H492@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <01041714250400.01376@antares> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01041714250400.01376@antares>; from s-jaschke@t-online.de on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:25:04PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 17 2001, Stefan Jaschke wrote: > Judging from the thread started Jan 1, 2001, by Andre Hedrick, > I thought IDE DVD-RAM just works out of the box and got a > Toshiba SD-W2002. > > Problem: /dev/hdc cannot be read or written to when the drive contains > DVD-RAM media. The behavior is the same for the stock 2.4.3 kernel > and the SuSE-2.4.0 kernel. Strangely enough, the disk can be read, > but not written to, with the 2.2.18 kernel. It should work, note that I recently spotted some quite severe bugs in the pio write handling for ATAPI which I've almost fixed here now. It seems you drive is in DMA mode though, so it shouldn't be affecting you. Please send me strace info when reading/writing to the drive (or at least attempting to), this looks very queer indeed. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/