On 14/12/09 16:24, ael wrote: > Alain Knaff wrote: >> On 14/12/09 15:58, ael wrote: >>> Any point in running under strace? >> >> Yes, this would be useful, especially for analyzing the "Invalid >> argument" >> issue. > > Looks as if that was something to do with my command line. Below is the > strace giving the IO error which probably isn't much help :-)
> > # strace fdrawcmd readid 0 repeat=18 2>&1 |tee fdrawcmd.dump|less [...] > ioctl(3, FDRAWCMD, 0xbf8ce620) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) Well, at least we now that it is indeed the rawcmd ioctl that gets the error (rather than some other system call), and this is interesting information. Could you also check whether anything interesting got output by the kernel (dmesg) during the fdrawcmd attempt? Thanks, Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org