Hello dudes,

I'm invoking the power of usenet in order to help me fixing a quite
annoying problem : i can't use burn CD with my cd driver. Yeah i know,
what a common issue, but you're kinda of my last chance..

First of all, i've to say that, Slackware is such a great distro, and
untill now, everything was just perfect.

As you probably assumed, it's an ATAPI device, and i'm running kernel
2.4.29, it's the standard kernel (called bare.i).

I gave the kernel the 'hdc=ide-scsi' option (using GRUB) and I can see
it in dmesg's output, i also know that the ide-scsi module is loaded,
but i can't burn anything..

My question is that : what can I do, what should I read ? Perahps load
an extra module ? Or is my device an exotic one that should work fine
with another well-tuned kernel ?

And for information, i read somewhere that i have to load sr_mod, but
modprobe can't find it ! (normal behavior with bare.i ?)

And before you ask, dmesg, cdrecord -scanbus and lsmod 's outputs
follow (perahps i shouldn't..?).

Hope you managed to understand me..

Thanks in advance.

Here is the output of demsg (after trying to burn something) :

Linux version 2.4.29 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Thu Jan 20
16:30:37 PST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bff0000 - 000000000bff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bff3000 - 000000000c000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
191MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 49136
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 45040 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 731.470 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1458.17 BogoMIPS
Memory: 190888k/196544k available (1831k kernel code, 5268k reserved,
607k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb150, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:02.0
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCIenabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:02.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: ST320413A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD153AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ad460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03ad59c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: CREATIVE CD-RW RW4424E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63,
UDMA(66)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 30064608 sectors (15393 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1871/255/63,
UDMA(66)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: hdb1
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 1210.400 MB/sec
32regs : 696.400 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 1475.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 1655.600 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1728.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1475.200 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 310k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Adding Swap: 996020k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW4424E Rev: 1.12
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:02.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 5
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xd7d/0x1600) is not claimed by any
active driver.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x1110/0x9022) is not claimed by any
active driver.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Model: USB DISK 20X Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 243712 512-byte hdwr sectors (125 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
attempt to access beyond end of device
0b:00: rw=0, want=34, limit=2
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16
attempt to access beyond end of device
0b:00: rw=0, want=34, limit=2
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected

I'm really sorry, it was pretty long...

cdrecord -scanbus finds my device (but why is it 0,0,0 and why is my
usb bus listed ?) :

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW4424E ' '1.12' Removable
CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) ' ' 'USB DISK 20X ' '1.00' Removable
Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

And now comes lsmod's output :

Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 36704 0
snd-mixer-oss 12152 2 [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-storage 62336 1
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
usbcore 58860 1 [usb-storage uhci]
snd-cmipci 16704 3
gameport 1420 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-pcm 54504 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cmipci]
snd-opl3-lib 5860 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-hwdep 4352 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cmipci
snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-hwdep
snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
ide-scsi 9392 0
agpgart 45092 0 (unused)