On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

> I have a cdrom on /dev/hdd. My system sees it but doesn't see any disk I put
> in it, either data or audio.

Show us what commands you did and the output. (Such as mount ...)

I don't know if it is related to cdrecord's messages below. But I do know
that cdrecord is very picky and is not a good judge if the CD player works
or not.

> I ran "cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus" and got the
> following output. I'm wondering about the NO DMA and the warning about the
> controller returning the wrong size. Could either of these things be my
> problem?
>
> thanks,
> Siri Amrit
>
> $ cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
> <snip>
> cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-kanotix-8
> 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: 'ATAPI'
> devname: 'ATAPI'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
> Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) *
> cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
>         0,1,0     1) 'E-IDE   ' 'CD-ROM 56X L    ' '23  ' Removable CD-ROM
>         0,2,0     2) *
>         0,3,0     3) *
>         0,4,0     4) *
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *
> </snip>

 Jeremy C. Reed

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