From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 28 12:32:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4937B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.37.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.12.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id g0SKWQYD080315 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:32:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from (arno@localhost) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.11.6/jtpda-5.2) id g0SKWPp82766 ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:32:25 +0100 (MET) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suspected dying CD-writer ? References: <3C4F3810.1232A5BF@herbelot.com> <20020123144207.J13686@elvis.mu.org> From: arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr Date: 28 Jan 2002 21:32:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020123144207.J13686@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: Lines: 57 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > * Thierry Herbelot [020123 14:24] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got an SCSI CD-Writer, which only gives errors when I try to use > > cd-record (see full log at the end of the message) > > > > As the problem is identical on a fresh 4.4-Rel (with cd-record installed > > from the CD as a binary package) and a recently updated 4.5-RC, there is > > strong suspicion the drive itself is dying. > > > > can anyone decode the ASCII dump of the SCSI error message ? > > > > (I've also cleaned the optics, in case there was too much dust, but no > > joy) > > > > time to buy a new Yamaha 2100S ? > > Try upgrading the firmware, this has fixed drives for me. > > -Alfred glad to hear, but I suspect there's also a recent kernel change involved here: I get exactly the same message when blanking CDRWs on two different recently installed machines: 1) a box running 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Wed Jan 23 16:12:22 MET 2002; ran before: 4[.4]-STABLE from October (and cdrtools-1.10); blanking CDRWs did not give any problem. CD-burner installed: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 2) a box running 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Wed Jan 16 12:41:51 MET 2002; ran before: W-9x, no problems with burning; CD-burner installed: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device I first installed/upgraded both of them just after Xmas (and installed cdrtools-1.10_1 ...) and both suddenly stopped being able to blank CDRWs, even worse, a CDRW burned at a nearby W-9x box, cannot even be mounted (no such device ...) Burning and mounting CDWs works fine (the first box is a very often used laboratory's "free service" CD-writer). NB. I do not have the VFS_something option in my kernelconfig which causes conflicts with cdrtools-1.10_1 and SCSI-2 burners. - Arno -- Arno J. Klaassen SCITO S.A. INSERM U483 Le Grand Sablon University Pierre et Marie Curie 4, avenue de l'Obiou 9, quai Saint Bernard 38700 La Tronche 75 252 Paris Cedex 5 arno@ccr.jussieu.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message