Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

[Henri Hennebert]

On 09/02/2013 01:54, Thomas Laus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> :-( Unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/cd0 Inappropriate ioctl for 
> device.

I encounter the same problem and reinstalling dvd+rw-tools-7.1 solved it.

Henri

>>
>> Could someone else try to make a 'dump to DVD' backup [...]
>> /sbin/dump -0u  -L -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /u
> 
> A test with less disk load would be to write e.g. 100 MB of zeros
> to e.g. DVD+RW media (in order to reduce waste):
> 
>   dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0
> 
> I got the same result and error message as I did when trying to dump the file 
> system on all of the computers that use ATA for disk access.  On the one PC 
> that uses AHCI, it was able to write to the DVD.
> 
> Tom
>