I have on the secondary IDE bus a DVD-ROM (hdc) and a DVD-Writer (hdd); both work fine under Windows. The primary IDE bus is unused, the HD is SATA (sda).
With Etch (2.6.12-1, up-to-date) I can mount CDs and read them from both drives. However, if I try cdrecord (e.g. blank or record) the process goes in D-state before writing anything, the IDE bus hangs for both drives until reboot and I get "hdc:/hdd: lost interrupt" messages in the kernel log (see below) and at shutdown. If I disable DMA this does not happen, but it is no consolation (the system refuses to write at speeds faster than 6x and the recorder is 10x minimum). The IDE controller is ALi M5229 rev. c7 (the driver is alim15x3, if I'm not mistaken). Posted below: - output of "cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast" - lspci - lsmod - dmesg - last lines of "strace cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast" (after a reboot to free the ide bus) - last lines of var/log/kern.log I've searched around for a while with no significant results (I also fiddled with ACPI options). Any help will be appreciated. Enrico --- cdrecord ---------------------------------- atuan:~# cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-1-386 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4163B' Revision : 'A102' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. (hangs here, can be interrupted with Ctrl-C after a few minutes, running it again hangs after the "Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI" line) --- lspci ------------------------------------- 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a33 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port 0000:00:19.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge 0000:00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.0 0403: ALi Corporation High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller 0000:00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to LPC Controller (rev 31) 0000:00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7) 0000:00:1f.1 RAID bus controller: ALi Corporation ULi 5287 SATA (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (rev a1) 0000:02:11.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03) 0000:02:15.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) --- lsmod ------------------------------------- Module Size Used by ipv6 236736 6 ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent] ide_disk 16768 0 ide_cd 39044 1 cdrom 36640 1 ide_cd usbhid 33376 0 wacom 13184 0 r8169 24460 0 i2c_ali1535 6916 0 i2c_ali15x3 7428 0 alim15x3 11532 0 [permanent] i2c_core 20752 2 i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3 parport_pc 34116 0 pci_hotplug 25908 0 ohci_hcd 19844 0 ehci_hcd 32008 0 parport 33352 1 parport_pc psmouse 27012 0 serio_raw 6788 0 ati_agp 8460 0 floppy 56532 0 agpgart 33096 1 ati_agp pcspkr 3524 0 rtc 11832 0 evdev 9216 0 mousedev 11296 1 ext3 124808 1 jbd 51224 1 ext3 sd_mod 18448 3 sata_uli 7296 2 libata 44164 1 sata_uli usb_storage 68032 0 usbcore 109948 6 usbhid,wacom,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usb_storage scsi_mod 129096 3 sd_mod,libata,usb_storage ide_core 118036 5 ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd,alim15x3,usb_storage unix 26032 374 fbcon 37120 0 tileblit 2432 1 fbcon font 8320 1 fbcon bitblit 5632 1 fbcon vesafb 8088 0 cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 4224 1 vesafb softcursor 2304 1 vesafb capability 4744 0 commoncap 6784 1 capability --- dmesg ------------------------------------- Linux version 2.6.12-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050917 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-8)) #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f52c0 On node 0 totalpages: 229376 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 AWARD ) @ 0x000f7140 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x3fff3040 ACPI: FADT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x3fff30c0 ACPI: MCFG (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x3fff7280 ACPI: MADT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x3fff71c0 ACPI: DSDT (v001 AWARD AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20 WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored. ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=809 mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 3201.987 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 904784k/917504k available (1540k kernel code, 12264k reserved, 756k data, 236k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 6307.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=3153920) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00100000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1500k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfafc0, last bus=2 PCI: Using MMCONFIG mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309 ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.LNKC] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND search_node c17ebaa0 start_node c17ebaa0 return_node 00000000 ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND search_node c17f04a0 start_node c17f04a0 return_node 00000000 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2PB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK9] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API PCI: 0000:00:02.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (3) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[5a34:1002] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability Allocate Port Service[pcie00] Allocate Port Service[pcie01] Allocate Port Service[pcie03] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 EISA: Detected 0 cards. NET: Registered protocol family 2 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) ACPI wakeup devices: P2PB USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S5) RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1500KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Capability LSM initialized NET: Registered protocol family 1 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. libata version 1.11 loaded. PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD400 ctl 0xD802 bmdma 0xE400 irq 185 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDC00 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xE408 irq 185 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD408 ctl 0xD806 bmdma 0xE410 irq 185 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDC08 ctl 0xE006 bmdma 0xE418 irq 185 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:007f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 390721968 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_uli ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_uli ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi2 : sata_uli scsi3 : sata_uli Vendor: ATA Model: ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 input: PC Speaker Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1c.3: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1c.3: debug port 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1c.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1c.3: irq 193, io mem 0xd5006000 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1c.3 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1c.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.0: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.0: irq 193, io mem 0xd5007000 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.1: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (#2) ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.1: irq 193, io mem 0xd5004000 logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 74 usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.2: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (#3) ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ohci_hcd 0000:00:1c.2: irq 193, io mem 0xd5005000 input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1 scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:1e.1: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:1e.1: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted. ali1535_smbus 0000:00:1e.1: ALI1535_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS? ali1535_smbus 0000:00:1e.1: ALI1535 not detected, module not inserted. r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:15.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf889a000, 00:0f:ea:d1:3a:17, IRQ 201 usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning input: Wacom Graphire on usb-0000:00:1c.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver wacom drivers/usb/input/wacom.c: v1.40:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver Adding 1004020k swap on /dev/sda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3 FS on sda9, internal journal ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ALI15X3: chipset revision 199 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Vendor: Maxtor 4 Model: R080L0 Rev: 0 0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete hdd: LITE-ON DVD SOHD-167T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Probing IDE interface ide0... Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: Generic Model: USB CF Reader Rev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Probing IDE interface ide2... Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Vendor: Generic Model: USB SM Reader Rev: 1.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Vendor: Generic Model: USB MS Reader Rev: 1.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 usb-storage: device scan complete Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... r8169: eth0: link up cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c030c060(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver eth0: no IPv6 routers present --- strace ------------------------------------ atuan:~# strace cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast ...snip... (full log available) write(1, "Device type : Removable CD-RO"..., 34Device type : Removable CD-ROM ) = 34 write(1, "Version : 0\n", 19Version : 0 ) = 19 write(1, "Response Format: 2\n", 19Response Format: 2 ) = 19 write(1, "Capabilities : \n", 18Capabilities : ) = 18 write(1, "Vendor_info : \'HL-DT-ST\'\n", 28Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST' ) = 28 write(1, "Identifikation : \'DVDRAM GSA-416"..., 36Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4163B' ) = 36 write(1, "Revision : \'A102\'\n", 24Revision : 'A102' ) = 24 write(1, "Device seems to be: Generic mmc2"..., 47Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. ) = 47 gettimeofday({1131299294, 819493}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb21c0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 821770}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 821797}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb21f0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 825676}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 825705}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb21d0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 828701}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 828731}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2200) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 832397}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 832427}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2390) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 834156}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 834183}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2390) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 837271}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 837299}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2200) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 839989}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 840019}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb20b0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 842128}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 842155}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2200) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 843875}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 843902}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb20b0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 846277}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 846305}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2350) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 847990}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 848018}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb2200) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 850409}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 850437}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO, 0xbfdb24b0) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 852683}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1131299294, 852713}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, SG_IO <unfinished ...> (<unfinished ...> comes out when I press Ctrl-C after a few minutes) --- from var/log/kern.log --------------------- Nov 6 17:50:06 atuan kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Nov 6 18:47:34 atuan kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Nov 6 18:49:14 atuan kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out Nov 6 18:49:14 atuan kernel: hdc: lost interrupt Nov 6 18:50:14 atuan kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out Nov 6 18:50:14 atuan kernel: hdc: lost interrupt Nov 6 18:50:19 atuan kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Nov 6 18:51:19 atuan kernel: hdd: lost interrupt Nov 6 18:51:59 atuan kernel: hdc: lost interrupt