SATA Plextor DVD writer... experiences ?

[Ronald van Engelen]

Op zo, 10-04-2005 te 20:18 +0200, schreef Vincent Trouilliez:

> So today I am trying it on my machine (different motherboard). The PCI
> SATA controller doesn't seem to detect the drive at boot, but somehow
> windows detect both the SATA controller AND the drive, and you can see
> it in Explorer. It can read CD's, but when you try to write to it, the
> machine hangs, need to kill Explorer.

In the past, I often felt the need to kill Explorer too ;)

> Under Warty, SATA controller is detected as an "Silicon Image Sil 3112,
> ASUS A7N8X", but the drive is not detected.

> Has anyone got this drive, or maybe another SATA Plextor CD writer, to
> work, in Ubuntu, or at all really, ie in Windows ?

I've got this drive and it is working properly in Hoary connected to a
Intel ICH5 SATA-controller:

scsi4 : ata_piix
  Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: DVDR   PX-712A    Rev: 1.05
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 5
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

> Any things I should do to get this SATA drive to work in Ubuntu ?
> Is it "blacklisted" or something ?

Just try to put the SATA in 'native/enhanced'-mode in the BIOS.

The output of `dmesg` would be interesting, especially the parts
conserning your SATA-controller.

See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html for a real good list about
SATA controller-support in recent kernels.

Regards,
Ronald