Plextor SCSI CDR and cdrecord problem, was RE: Video capture?
Daryl
dfallin at kc.rr.com
Mon Dec 31 22:28:28 CST 2001
dmesg looks great. it sees the drive and I can in fact mount the Plextor
CD drive, I just cant write to it using cdrecord.
dmesg
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SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
<Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter>
aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210S Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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No good information in the system logs
Here is the output from 'cdrecord -scanbus' (as root)
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#cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
./cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
./cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root
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Here is the output from 'cdrecord -scanbus -dev 0,4,0'
(my Plextor is Scsi 0, target 4, lun 0 )
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#cdrecord -scanbus -dev 0,4,0
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
scsidev: '0,4,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0
./cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg4'. Cannot open
SCSI
driver.
./cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
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Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. This was working at one time
with Mandrake 8.1, but this is a new install ( after a fateful disk crash
)
Thanks
Daryl
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Hmm... have you looked at the output of dmesg? My own CD-RW stopped
> working when I went from Mandrake 7.x to 8.0. But it is an ATAPI
> interface (internal SCSI, so I must use the ide-scsi driver). Any clues
> in the system logs?
>
> >
> >
> > It is SCSI
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Brian Densmore wrote:
> >
> > > SCSI interface or IDE interface? I'm not familiar with
> > Plextor, but the
> > > designation looks like SCSI.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a VP6 MotherBoard with Dual Pent. 700 MHz Procs (PGA), 256M
> > > > ECC SDRAM, Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Card, Plextor 12/10/32S
> > > > CD-Writer, Matrox
> > > > Millineum Video, 3Com NIC, 60 Gig IDE 7200RPM Maxtor Drive.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... Thats pretty much the basics.
> > > >
> > > > After praising Mandrake in my last post I now have noticed a
> > > > problem. I
> > > > can mount my Plextor Drive, but cdrecord doesnt recognize it.
> > > > I tried to
> > > > do the "cdrecord -scanbus" command and it doesnt find it.
> > > > Yet I can mount
> > > > the SCSI device /dev/scd0 ... very strange. if anyone has an
> > > > idea on that
> > > > let me know. Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Daryl
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: Daryl [mailto:dfallin at kc.rr.com]
> > > > >
> > > > > > As a matter of fact, I just got my video Capture Card (
> > > > > > Hauppage winTV )working this week.
> > > > >
> > > > > What's your other hardware? And what's the filesize/hour
> > > > when you're
> > > > > recording?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > majordomo at kclug.org
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > majordomo at kclug.org
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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