[CentOS] Problems with SATA DVD+-RW drive

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Jay Leafey wrote:

> I just got a Dell Dimension e521 (AMD 64 x2, nVidia MCP51 chipset)

I seem to have this as well, recently purchased:

[root at amd64 ~]# cdrecord --scanbus
...
scsibus1:
         1,0,0   100) 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD+-RW TS-H553A' 'DE04'  Removable CD-ROM
...
[root at amd64 ~]# /sbin/lspci -v | grep -i MCP51
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)

and in the dmesg:

   Vendor: TSSTcorp  Model: DVD+-RW TS-H553A  Rev: DE04
   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI 
revision: 05
  ... and later ...
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I remember being surprised seeing a SATA CD drive i it when I 
popped it open to remove (the never powered up)  proprietary 
OS tax hard drive, and dropping in a Seagate with a five year 
warranty ;)

> The drive shows up as /dev/scd0 and all the symlinks for /dev/cdrom,

hmm -- I'll check tomorrow, but I would suspect, from the 
following, that it can be used at the TUI command line by root 
by cdrecord (I actually rarely burn media, but it was included 
in the price that I got from Dell), with the setting of:

    dev='1,0,0' and an iso image, etc.

[root at amd64 proc]# cdrecord dev='1,0,0' driveropts=help  -checkdrive
...
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code 
version (schily - RedHat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH
'@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.83 04/05/20 Copyright1997 J. Schilling').
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'TSSTcorp'
Identifikation : 'DVD+-RW TS-H553A'
Revision       : 'DE04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Driver options:
burnfree        Prepare writer to use BURN-Free technology
noburnfree      Disable using BURN-Free technology
[root at amd64 proc]#

-- Russ Herrold