hi,
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to get an external USB CD writer to work.
>
> I bought an empty USB<->IDE case and it works fine for harddisks. With the
> CDRW drive I can mount CD's with no problems. Unfortunately, cdrecord
> doesn't recognize the drive as being a writable device.
>
> The drive is a Lite-On LTR32123S. On connecting the USB device, the kernel
> spits out these messages:
> kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4
> kernel: usb 1-2: Product: USB 2.0 Storage Device
> kernel: usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 00042222200000119603
> kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> kernel: Vendor: Revoltec Model: USB/IDE Bridge ( Rev: 0103
> kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> usb.agent[3234]: usb-storage: already loaded
> kernel: SCSI device sda: 331176 2048-byte hdwr sectors (678 MB)
> kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> kernel: sda:<7>usb-storage: queuecommand called
> kernel: unknown partition table
> kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
> scsi.agent[3260]: disk at
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0
> kernel: UDF-fs: No VRS found
>
> On 'cdrecord --scanbus', it detects:
> 2,0,0 200) 'Revoltec' 'USB/IDE Bridge (' '0103' Removable Disk
>
> and is unable to use it as a write device.
>
> I am using 2.6.8.1 on a i386 architecture, running Sarge.
>
> Any hints on this?
>
I managed to solve this problem. There seems to be a problem in kernel
2.6.8.1 which makes usb-storage show the adapter and not the device behind
it.
The thread covering this is:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9650072
problem should be solved for future kernels.
Cheers!
Sebastiaan
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