* Chris Dennis (cgdennis@???) wrote:
> I've wasted lots of time with SATA DVD drives recently (specifically
> with DVD-RAM), but I haven't got any answers (yet) -- I suspect that
> SATA optical drives have not yet 'matured' under Linux.
>
> Initially I had an LG GSAHN30, which worked most of the time, but would
> randomly not read disks, and eventually started putting messages like
>
> ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
>
> ata3.00: (BMDMA stat 0x6)
>
> ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x2a data
> 131072 out
> res 50/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
>
> ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
>
> ata3: EH complete
>
> into syslog, so I removed it.
>
> I tried a Samsung SH-S183: that was fine for most things, but I DVD-RAMs
> showed up as read-only, and I couldn't find a solution.
>
> Now I'm trying a LiteOn LH-20A1S: it writes DVD-RAMs sometimes, but
> often gives permission errors that I'm still working on.
>
> I've Googled around, and not found anything helpful with all of this.
> I'm running Debian testing with a 2.6.21-2-amd64 kernel.
>
> Yours unhelpfully
I finally bought a new SATA controller card, and it just worked. I
have not tried writing a disk yet, but at least it boots. I don't
think I will try a DVD-RAM disk, as I am not sure why I would use
such disks. I want to write DVD's and also backup some files.
--
Philip Stubbs
http://www.stuphi.co.uk
