k3b hardware detection

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sat Feb 4 05:44:26 PST 2006


Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer at netfence.it> wrote:

> I just tryed installing k3b and I did follow all the instruction from 
> pkg-message5.
> The problem now is that my burner is detected as a cd-rom read only
> device.
> 
> First of all:
> 
> _ I'm using FreeBSD 6-STABLE; I followed the instruction for FreeBSD 
> 5.x, since that's what I was presented with; there are no
> instructions for 6, but I guess those are good;
> 
> _ here are my relevant dmesg:
> 
> > sym0: <895> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
> > 0xd5202000-0xd52020ff,0xd5201000-0xd5201fff irq 15 at device 10.0
> > on pci0 sym0: Tekram NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
> > sym0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>  > ...
> > cd1 at sym0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> > cd1: <YAMAHA CRW8824S 1.0a> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> > cd1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
> > cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not
> > present - tray closed
> ...
> > cd0 at sym0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> > cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.12> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> > cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
> > cd0: cd present [207330 x 2048 byte records]
> 
> 
> _ camcontrol devlist gives:
> 
>  > <SEAGATE ST39205LW 0105>           at scbus0 target 0 lun 0
>  > (da0,pass0) <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.12>      at scbus0 target 4
>  > lun 0 (cd0,pass1) <IOMEGA ZIP 100 E.08>              at scbus0
>  > target 5 lun 0 (da1,pass2) <YAMAHA CRW8824S 1.0a>             at
>  > scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (cd1,pass3)
> 
> Notice everything is true SCSI.
 
> K3B sees the two following readonly devices:
> 
>  > YAMAHA CRW8824S
>  > PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS
 
> Obviously the first shoud be listed in Writer Devices...
> 
> BTW cdrecord & co. work fine.

Just a guess, but maybe the drive reports false capabilities
which are then checked by k3b.

You could try cdrecord's prcap option to see if the drive
advertises it self as a writer.

Fabian
-- 
http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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