#21 formatting !

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I got this HP CDwriter+ 8290 rev 1.3 C on my woody PC.
Kernel 2.4.18 - udftools 1.0.0B2
Patched the kernel with the packet-2.4.18.patch.bz2
patch.

loaded modules :
[Sat Jun 8][21:45:37]root@number1:udf# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
pktcdvd 16836 0
opl3 11080 0 (unused)
cs4232 3456 2
v_midi 4992 0 (unused)
uart401 6048 0 [cs4232]
mpu401 18656 0 (unused)
ad1848 19232 0 [cs4232]
sound 52012 2 [opl3 cs4232 v_midi
uart401 mpu401 ad1848]
soundcore 3268 7 [sound]
sg 23556 0
8139too 12896 1
mii 1040 0 [8139too]
ide-scsi 7552 0
sr_mod 13624 0
cdrom 26944 0 [pktcdvd sr_mod]
scsi_mod 49564 3 [sg ide-scsi sr_mod]

tried also loading the udf.o module :module loads ok, I
get the same errors as below.

then tried:
[Sat Jun 8][21:47:53]root@number1:udf# cdrwtool -d
/dev/scd1 -q -t4 -b full -w mode1
using device /dev/scd1
setting speed to 4
full blank
mode1
set_options

and :

[Sat Jun 8][21:50:53]root@number1:udf# pktsetup
/dev/pktcdvd1 /dev/scd1
pktcdvd: writer sr1 succesfully registered.

and when I :
[Sat Jun 8][21:51:00]root@number1:udf# mount
/dev/pktcdvd1 /mnt/udf

/dev/pktcdvd1: inserted media size is CD-RW
/dev/pktcdvd1: detected zero packet size !
/dev/pktcdvd1: unknown data mode
/dev/pktcdvd1: pktcdvd1 failed probe
mount: /dev/pktcdvd1: can't read superblock

?
I kind off understand why I get the last error ; cdrw
is not formatted I think. I think I'm missing something
with the formatting.
Could it be my CDwriter is not supported?

I would appreciate some help ;-)!

TIA

JoD

[Martin Maney]

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I don't see where you actually used cdrwtool to format the
CD. I'm using much the same setup as you (aside from
hardware details), and it works fine for me with either
standard-length (74 minute) CDRWs or the mini-disk size, but
fails with 80 disks. See the item I filed above (probably
should have gone to the bugs list, oh well, there don't seem
to be any developers anywhere around here).

Also, Peter says you should use the latest packet patch even
though it's labeled as 2.4.19-pre4. I haven't seen anything
that was different between them, but aside from one rejected
hunk (in the Sparc architecture, so I don't care <smile>) it
applies and compiles just fine.

[Johan Dewaele]

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Hi,

you were right : you didn't see any formatting (as I also
did not see any) ;-).
The formatting with "cdrw -d/dev/scd1 -q" (and different
variants I tried) just failed/quit/stopped every time
without error.
I then tried it with Easy CD Creator : no probs formatting.
Tried to read AND write under linux and bingo : it works.

Now I'm trying another CDRW : it seems to work :

[Mon Jun 10][20:49:50]root@number1:dewaele# cdrwtool -d
/dev/scd1 -q
using device /dev/scd1
1312KB internal buffer
setting write speed to 12x
Settings for /dev/scd1:
Fixed packets, size 32
Mode-2 disc

I'm going to do a quick setup of /dev/scd1. The disc is
going to be blanked and formatted with one big track. All
data on the device will be lost!! Press CTRL-C to cancel
now.
ENTER to continue.

Initiating quick disc blank
Disc capacity is 275616 blocks (551232KB/538MB)
Formatting track
start=0, blocks=16, type=RESERVED
start=16, blocks=3, type=VRS
start=19, blocks=237, type=USPACE
start=256, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR
start=257, blocks=31, type=USPACE
start=288, blocks=32, type=PVDS
start=320, blocks=32, type=LVID
start=352, blocks=32, type=STABLE
start=384, blocks=1024, type=SSPACE
start=1408, blocks=273920, type=PSPACE
start=275328, blocks=31, type=USPACE
start=275359, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR
start=275360, blocks=160, type=USPACE
start=275520, blocks=32, type=STABLE
start=275552, blocks=32, type=RVDS
start=275584, blocks=31, type=USPACE
start=275615, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR
Writing UDF structures to disc
Quick setup complete!

Both CDRW were 700 MB - 80 Min !