Re: Re: cdrecord

Thanks Brett.

The mkisofs -o test-backup.iso -R -J -v dir_to_backup works, but
growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/hdc=test-backup.iso had the same
error of ":-( unable to INQUIRY: Invalid argument".

I guess it does not like /dev/hdc. Is there any way I can test /dev/hdc to
make sure it is working? Or to get information from /dev/hdc (/proc does
not have the information about /dev/hdc)?

Thank you.

Jim

> to test the drive,
>
> mkisofs -o test-backup.iso -R -J -v dir_to_backup
>
> this will create an iso image of a directory you wish to backup, then,
>
> growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/hdc=test-backup.iso
>
> see how that goes..
>
> Brett
>
> Jim wrote:
>
>> Thanks Brett. Seems that the /dev/dvd was the problem. I was suggested
>> to test by using /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/dvd, the error had gone,
>> but the machine crashed and freezed, I have to reboot it.
>>
>> The dmesg indicates following information:
>>
>> hdc: LITE-OSCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 DVDRW SOHW-1673S,
>> ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>>   Vendor: LITE-ON   Model: DVDRW SOHW-1673S  Rev: JS05
>>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>>
>> I made "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd", but how can I test /dev/hdc to make
>> sure it is really work?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Brett Ellis wrote:
>>
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Brett. I've got it. I tried to run growisofs, what I did
>>>> wrong with
>>>> the argument?
>>>>
>>>> ./growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=test.img
>>>> :-( unable to INQUIRY: Invalid argument
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Mmm, are you in the same directory as test.img? Do you have
>>> permission to use the dvd drive? Is growisofs fussy about the order
>>> of arguments?, try swapping the speed and compat around.
>>>
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