On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:18:55PM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > You can format you himd walkman as followed: > > > > > > 1) use cdrecord -scanbus to find your walkman > > > The entry should look like this: > > > scsibus 6: > > > 6,0,0 600> 'SONY ' 'Hi-MD WALKMAN' ' '1000' Removable Disk > > and Linux: > > glaubitz@z6:~> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. > scsibus1000: > 1000,0,0 100000) '_NEC ' 'DVD_RW ND-3540A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM > 1000,1,0 100001) * > 1000,2,0 100002) * > 1000,3,0 100003) * > 1000,4,0 100004) * > 1000,5,0 100005) * > 1000,6,0 100006) * > 1000,7,0 100007) * Aaaaah, I just had an idea (just when I was about to leave the uni office ;)) and I was right: root@z6:~> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. scsibus1000: 1000,0,0 100000) '_NEC ' 'DVD_RW ND-3540A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM 1000,1,0 100001) * 1000,2,0 100002) * 1000,3,0 100003) * 1000,4,0 100004) * 1000,5,0 100005) * 1000,6,0 100006) * 1000,7,0 100007) * root@z6:~> modprobe sg WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/cat, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it will be ignored in a future release. root@z6:~> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATA ' 'SAMSUNG HD252HJ ' '1AC0' Disk 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) 'ATA ' 'ST31000340AS ' 'SD1A' 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) * scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'ATA ' 'ST31000340AS ' 'SD1A' Disk 2,1,0 201) * 2,2,0 202) * 2,3,0 203) * 2,4,0 204) * 2,5,0 205) * 2,6,0 206) * 2,7,0 207) * scsibus3: 3,0,0 300) 'ATA ' 'ST31000340AS ' 'SD1A' Disk 3,1,0 301) * 3,2,0 302) * 3,3,0 303) * 3,4,0 304) * 3,5,0 305) * 3,6,0 306) * 3,7,0 307) * scsibus4: 4,0,0 400) 'ATA ' 'ST31000340AS ' 'SD1A' Disk 4,1,0 401) * 4,2,0 402) * 4,3,0 403) * 4,4,0 404) * 4,5,0 405) * 4,6,0 406) * 4,7,0 407) * scsibus9: 9,0,0 900) 'SONY ' 'Hi-MD WALKMAN ' '1000' Removable Disk 9,1,0 901) * 9,2,0 902) * 9,3,0 903) * 9,4,0 904) * 9,5,0 905) * 9,6,0 906) * 9,7,0 907) * scsibus1000: 1000,0,0 100000) '_NEC ' 'DVD_RW ND-3540A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM 1000,1,0 100001) * 1000,2,0 100002) * 1000,3,0 100003) * 1000,4,0 100004) * 1000,5,0 100005) * 1000,6,0 100006) * 1000,7,0 100007) * root@z6:~> The SCSI generic driver module was missing. Let's check, whether it will format the HiMD now: glaubitz@z6:~> ./himdformat_scg 9,0,0 ?: Input/output error. himd_format: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: C2 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x00 (incompatible medium installed) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 20s cannot send scsi commandglaubitz@z6:~> Hmm, no, that doesn't work. Anyone got an idea? Adrian