Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:04:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:03:53 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:45318 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:03:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:03:32 +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: <20010419150332.B22159@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <01041714250400.01376@antares> <01041914131100.01232@antares> <20010419141538.S16822@suse.de> <01041914440701.01232@antares> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01041914440701.01232@antares>; from s-jaschke@t-online.de on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:44:07PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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/