X-CD-Roast Problems

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

You might want to read ther README text file for xcdroast. It has some other options that will help you. I just solved my whole cdburning thing the other day by disabling ide cdrom but since you have an ide cdrom (the regular one not the burner) you will want to put add this line

http://www.linuxfocus.org/common/src/article227/README.atapi.html

voidzero · Bodhisattva Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 265 Location: Grnn

please post the literal output of 'lsmod' then

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ee99ee2 · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 4:17 pm Post subject:

Well good news. I removed the SCSI CD-ROM Support option from my kernel and magicly, the SCSI CD-ROMs were detected (as long as they are in /etc/lilo.conf like you all said to do).

Now, another problem. I go into X-CD-Roast (as root, or as the user that I added in it's setup), but I can't do anything. It doesn't see that there's anything in any of my 3 drives. All 3 drives, and that Adaptec FAKE thing, show up, but when I put something in to just copy a CD from my CD-ROM to the CD-RW drive, it says Emtpy CD-R/RW and won't let me change the lable or title of the CD or anything. Am I doing something wrong? I've tried this as both root and normal user.

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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Let me get this straight... you /removed/ scsi cdrom support, and the scsi cdrom started working?

Alright.. now this is getting illogical.

Let's get the GUI frontend out of the way while we're troubleshooting and just work with the commandline. It's easier to troubleshoot that way.
What does "cdrecord --scanbus" give you now? Is the IDE cdburner detected now?
if you have an ISO you can test with (no need to burn it.. just a cdr in the drive will suffice), and you know what device your cdburner is on from --scanbus, run "cdrecord dev=x,x,x -speed=4 -dummy ISONAME" replacing x,x,x with the device scsi ID from cdrecord --scanbus, and replacing ISONAME with a valid ISO. The -dummy will make it keep the laser off during the process, essentially just going through the actions without actually physically burning.

MacMasta · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:36 pm Post subject:

Got "vendor-specific extensions" built in, too?

As I remember it, you need SCSI cdrom, scsi generic, ide-scsi emulation, and (sometimes) vendor-specific extensions built in.

That fixed it for the ide cd burner in the machine across the room from me...

(but my system works just fine without it - perhaps it *wink wink* depends on the vendor?)

~Mac~

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

ee99ee2 · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 3:41 am Post subject:

Okay it's really weird I know. I REMOVED SCSI-CDROM Support from the kernel, and made sure the thing was in my lilo.conf (it was)... rebooted the new kernel and bam cdrecord -scanbus showed all 3 CD-ROM drives (I added all 3 of them in lilo.conf).

Now right now, I took the ide-scsi thing out my lilo.conf b/c I needed to mount my CD-ROM drives to read a CD and when I have the ide-scsi thing in lilo.conf, there's nothing under /dev/cdroms... not even a /dev/cdrom.

Whew, I'm sleepy early tonight. I'll try to add the ide-scsi thing back in my lilo.conf and give you all an exact readout of what it says. If not, I'll do it tomorrow morning *adds this to his todo list on his new handspring visor*.

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seang · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 5:54 am Post subject:

Methinks we may have stray modules on the loose here!! A module can be deselected in the kernel conf, but still remain (from before) in the /lib/modules hierarchy.

When things get this messy, I'd suggest zapping the appropriate /lib/modules subdirectory and rebuilding the kernel and modules from a clean base (yeah, it's a pain since you need to then rebuild other modules as well, nvidia if used, alsa if used, pcmcia if used, etc etc etc).

I just think this has got so confusing that it's worth that effort!! :-)

ee99ee2 · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 1:25 am Post subject:

Okay I don't remember what I was doing last. It's been what... a week and half since we've done anything on this? Anyway, I HAVE to get this thing fixed by Wednesday. What can I do? I'm still getting the same error in X-CDRoast... I'm lost... HELP

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870Fragmaster · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:51 am Post subject: Dont know if i can help, but

My advice would be to make sure that the scsi stuff is built into the kernel. I have SCSI Emulation support, SCSI CD-ROM support, and SCSI generic support. Make sure you have the generic, this caused me problems(i left it out). You may have already done this, but sometimes things get forgotten/left out.

ee99ee2 · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 5:29 am Post subject:

I've not had time to do anything with it. I need it really bad, so I'll probably go tomorrow and recompile. I also have to compile another file system into the kernel soon, so I'll redo everything then and post back. I've been meaning to work on this more for 2 weeks. Eeek....

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ee99ee2 · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:47 am Post subject:

Okay I got rid of everything SCSI related except SCSI CD-ROM Support, SCSI Generic, and SCSI Emulation. Now I get this when I open XCDRoast, even as root:

Image

In case you can't see what that says, it says Failed to scan SCSI bus either no permission or access to the SCSI generic is not in the kernel.

I hit continue anyway, and now there are no SCSI devices listed. Not even that weird Adaptec thing.

Here's the output of lsmod right now:

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:18 am Post subject:

Okay guys. I need to backup my server, and my MP3s again... come on, I gotta get this fixed.... someone has got to be able to understand what's going on....

I'm not sure if I've made this clear enough or not... but when I add the ide thing in my /etc/lilo.conf, they do show up in XCDRoast, but I can't mount them, so I can't use them as normal CD-ROM drives..... so we can't do it like that...

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870Fragmaster · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:53 pm Post subject:

so if you do

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Let's try this one more time...this time with more feeling.

Let's start by making a checklist..

1. Did you compile in scsi emulation? scsi cdrom support? generic scsi support? You will need all of these compiled into the kernel or compiled as modules. I found it easier to compile the support in rather than modules as it is my only cdrom device.

2. did you put append"hdx=ide-scsi" (where x is your device ie hdc) in your lilo file? did you re-run lilo?

3. If you compiled the scsi support as modules did you put the modprobe ide-scsi in the /etc/modules.autload file?

4. Is your /etc/devfsd.conf file setup correctly. It should be something like this:

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:33 pm Post subject:

Okay. I added append="hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf and now the CD-ROM (hdb) and the CD-RW drive (hdc) show up in XCDRoast. The problem is it thinks they are both CD-ROM drives and it always thinks they are empty. I put in a CD to duplicate in hdb, and a blank CD-R disc in my CD-RW drive. I hit write, and it said there's no media in either drive. Also, it doesn't think either of the drives are CD-RW drives.

Here's cdrecord -scanbus:

870Fragmaster · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 7:45 pm Post subject:

according to scanbus it ought to work. I would try a command line burn to check it out. It may be an XCDRoast problem.

devfsd creates devices in /dev/cdroms/ that link to the proper target whether scsi or ide(see my previous post). I have had good luck using these. So in my fstab as you can see in my previous post i use these as my device paths. Chickpea's /dev/cdrw works too if you have the links in the devfsd.conf file set properly.

Try something like this. you said something about backing up mp3's, so get a directory of mp3s that will fit on the cdrom, then

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

ee99ee2 · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 4:47 am Post subject:

Okay command line burning worked. So I'll read man cdrecord, man mkiso or whatever it is later. What other commands should I know to do command-line burning?

Oh, one thing. How do I turn on DMA? I tried hdparm /dev/cdroms/cdrom2 -d1... but it said that /dev/ccdroms/cdrom2 was an unsupported device. If I don't get DMA on, then there's no way I can use command-line burning because it totally locks up my system while it burns. I can't even move the mouse more then about once every 2 seconds. It's that bad. I know that if I can get DMA to turn on, it'll fix it.

Since we know now it's a XCDRoast problem, what are some other burning programs? Is there one that uses the KDE libs for GUI? So it'll look like my theme? hehe.

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870Fragmaster · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 7:20 am Post subject:

I dont know what is up with your machine bogging down, you cant set dma on a scsi emulated cdrom. that is why you should not emulate a dvd. on the gui front, I like k3b. It seems to do well, have a nice gui and a good feature set. To get it to burn as a user, go through the setup. it should detect your drives. set the correct mount points. then give it the cdrw group and add the users you want to be able to use it. it will set the permissions on the files(cdrdao,cdrecord, ect..). another choice is arson. i havent looked at it in a while so i dont know its current state. both arson and k3b are in the portage tree.

ee99ee2 · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 8:49 am Post subject:

What should I do about the DMA thing? I can't go on like this. I've burned one thing, and the reason I've not burned more is because I can't even move my mouse until it's done burning.

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870Fragmaster · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 1:23 am Post subject:

it should not be a problem w/ dma. other than that i have no idea

Is you harddisk and burner on the same channel? if it is try putting it on the other ide controller. dont know if it would matter but possibly reading and writing on the same channel may be slowing things down. sorry i cant help ya.

ee99ee2 · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 2:03 am Post subject:

nope. they are on diff channels.

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