Jeff,
I don't know where to start, and am asking for direction.
I bought an Asus DRW-2014L1T SATA DVD drive. I can blank CD-RWs with
cdrecord, but can not burn a good CD-R or CD-RW with cdrecord or
cdrdao from CLI or with K3B. I also can not burn a good DVD with
growisofs.
I can burn just fine to my TSSTcorp DVD drive (it is PATA).
I'm using sata_via and pata_via ... no IDE stuff in the kernel. I've
tried different kernel selections, but nothing works.
mingdao@silas:~$ uname -a
Linux silas 2.6.25.1-libata #1 PREEMPT Fri May 2 07:37:20 CST 2008
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
mingdao@silas:~$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
[K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA
RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
I sent a request for help to cdrecord, and Jorge Schilling basically
made excuses and blamed my media, my drive, and the Linux kernel. He
offered nothing technical whatsoever.
I updated the firmware in the drive, and have built the latest
cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools.
Perhaps this Asus DVD burner is not even supported. I've read
sata_via.c and LKML and every hit on Google and <Linux> Google.
If you could just tell me what to do to submit a possible bug report
or request for support, I would be grateful.
And though my knowledge is not real deep, I will do anything you ask
from here to work with you on this ... if it's even something you
have one minute of time for.
Thanks,
Bruce Hill
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