Confused Newbie: CD-RW as SCSI Device in Warty?

[Brian Durant]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:25:18 -0500, David M. Carney
<carney1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:53:57 +0700, Brian Durant
> <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I am still trying to copy an audio CD in Warty. At this point, I am
> > getting a little philosophical. With the Warty kernel, the days of
> > ATAPI IDE CD-R, RW, DVD-R having to pretend to be SCSI devices should
> > be definitively over, aren't they??? Can anyone enlighten me on this
> > issue? I have tried pretty much everything else. To summarize, I can't
> > create an image as suggested in the Unofficial Ubuntu Guide and every
> > GUI software I have tried (xcdroast, K3B Gnome Baker, etc.) spits
> > error messages back at me. I can listen to audio CDs and watch VCDs
> > and DVDs, so what gives. I have two different CD-R, RW, DVD-R drives.


> Without knowing the error messages, it's kinda tough to determine your problem.
> 
> Under Warty's kernel, k3b must be run as root.
> 
> From a terminal, try starting it with:
> 
> gksudo k3b
> 
> Then supply YOUR password when prompted. See if it works then.

OK, here is all of the information that I have posted before during
various attempts to get this to work:

I have 2 CD-R, RW and DVD-R drives. On my system, they are located at
hdh and hdg. My /etc/fstab entries are as follows:

/dev/hdh        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdg        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 rw,user,noauto  0       0

/media/cdrom0 is listed as: JLMS XJ-HD165H (Lite-On drive???)
/media/cdrom1 is listed as: SONY CD-RW CRX320E

I have the audio CD placed in /media/cdrom0 and the blank CD-R disc in
/media/cdrom1 Both Ryhythmbox and Sound Juicer recognize the drives
and audio disks in them, though I sometimes have to try 2 or 3 times
before they are recognized correctly.

When I try to create an ISO image according to the instructions in the
Ubuntu Starter's Guide dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024, returns
the following:

dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.014510 seconds (0 bytes/sec)

I have tried gksudo nautilus burn:/// and then chosen CD Creator under
the "places" menu. When I drop Wave files that I have ripped from the
audio CD on to this window and try to burn a CD, the image creation
seems to go fine, when the CD Creator tries to burn the image, I get
the following:

cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
scsidev: '/dev/hdg'
devname: '/dev/hdg'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
cdrecord: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg
(ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.90 04/01/14 Copyright
1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder
found on this target.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

K3B seems to create an image but then gives up with the following when
K3B tries to write to CD:
Errors in K3b progress window:

RAW recording not supported with this writer.
cdrecord returned an unknown error (code 255).
Unknown error 255.
Please send me an email with the last output.

Debugging output:
System
-----------------------
K3b Version:0.11.12
KDE Version: 3.2.3
QT Version: 3.2.3

cdrecord
-----------------------
scsidev: '/dev/hdg'
devname: '/dev/hdg'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg
(ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 <snip>).
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
capabilities page.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
capabilities page.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported
CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
capabilities page.
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
Jörg Schilling
<snip>
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX320E '
Revision : 'NYK1'
Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-2 CD-ROM driver (scsi2_cd).
Driver flags :
Supported modes:
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Encoding speed : 322x (24106 sectors/s) for libedc from Heiko Eißfeldt
pregap1: -1
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Drive does not support RAW recording.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

cdrecord comand:
-----------------------
/usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdg speed=40 -raw
driveropts=burnfree -eject -text -useinfo -audio -shorttrack
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track01.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track02.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track03.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track04.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track05.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track06.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track07.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track08.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track09.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track10.wav
/tmp/kde-root/k3bCdCopy0/Track11.wav

Then I tried using sudo xcdroast, but got a message blubbering on
about SCSI emulation needing to be turned on as I have 2 ATAPI/IDE
CD-R, RW, DVD-R drives. Is this the problem that I have with
Nautilus/cdrecord also? I don't get it. I am using Warty, so I
shouldn't need SCSI emulation with kernel (whatever) in Warty which is
at least 2.4 something, right? I am looking at the X-CD Roast FAQ
trying to make heads or tails of it, but without much luck. It seems
like I have to add 2 lines to /etc/modules.conf:

options ide-cd ignore='hdg hdd'
options ide-cd ignore='hdh hdd'

and then add in grub:

hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi (Kernel 2.2.x and most 2.4.x)
hdh=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi (Kernel 2.2.x and most 2.4.x)
or

hdg=scsi hdd=scsi (Kernel 2.4.x only, if the above line does not work)
hdh=scsi hdd=scsi (Kernel 2.4.x only, if the above line does not work)

Maybe I will have to load the driver manually (???):
/sbin/insmod ide-scsi; /sbin/insmod sg

I tried GnomeBaker as well. It also worked fine until it needed to
burn the CD. Here is the resonse:

cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/hdg'
devname: '/dev/hdg'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
cdrecord: Warning: using unofficial version of libscg
(ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.90 04/01/14 Copyright
1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J
rg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools at packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

My system overview as follows:

Soyo Dragon Plus! motherboard
1GB RAM
2 CD-R, RW, DVD-R drives (hdh & hdg)
3 HDs (hdb, hde & hdf)
Plus Nics, a bunch of USB, etc.

Cheers,

Brian