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Re: Re: Problems reading CD-ROMs with my DVD-ROM ?! (2)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven Anders)
Tue Jul 13 10:17:03 1999

Date:   Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:18:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Sven Anders <anderss@fmi.uni-passau.de>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> If you wish to take a closer look at what is happening  then perhaps you
> could download the utilities tarball at: http://www.torque.net/sg
>
> You will need to have the sg device driver available (either built into
> the kernel or as a module). Then try: sg_readcap /dev/sr0  [or /dev/sr1]
> 
> to see what your block size is and the address of the last block. For
> example, if your block size is 2048 and the last block address is
> 332529 then try: sg_dd2048 if=/dev/sgc of=/dev/null skip=332529 count=1
> 
> This utility is just like "dd" but will report any SCSI error directly
> to you (and bypasses the cdrom code). This example assumes the sg device
> /dev/sgc is the same as the cdrom driver you wish to test. Sg devices
> are allocated in the same number and order seen in 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'.
> 
> Such a test works ok for CDRs burnt on my Yamaha 4416S by cdrecord.
> However a friend who uses similar hardware and NT to burn CDRs always
> seems to get an error on the last block just as you seem to. However
> those CDRs give a "L-EC UNCORRECTABLE ERROR" error which is different
> from your report.
> 
> Also the position of the error you have reported is awfully close to
> the 650 MB limit for a CDR.

Hello !

Thanks for the answers.

I tried the sg utilities and attached some of your suggested outputs.
As your can see, it works perfectly on my CD-Writer. The Problem is, 
that the read with dd from the normal CD device (drivers) does not work.
Here it fails to read a whole 7 sectors, not only 2 (which seems to be
normal and would be taken care of the CD device driver!
This means a serious data loss.

The read with sg_dd2048 works perfectly.

When I try to access the last file on the CD normal with mounting the
CD all works perfectly. This seems really strange to me, because I
thought, that the file-system reads via the normal CD device drivers
which dd uses too.

Any further ideas ?!

Best regards
 Sven

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