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You may try the following directive:Anonymous wrote:I got a cheap modable CD Changer at Ebay - Now I modded it to support DVD
I know it's possible to support the DVD Rom inside the Changer (It's got it's own ID) but is it possible to share the Changer too ? It doesn't show up in the List of physical devices but it's shown in the Windows DeviceManager as unknown Media Changer. Btw It's a Kodak Digital Science 144 Changer.
Anonymous wrote:Yes works ! Thats cool - Now I need a good and reliable Linux Initiator to get the Chnager and the DVD usable on my HTPC Linux Box
Is UNH a good sollution ?
Thanks
Stefan
Anonymous wrote:Hi,
what di you mean by "soon" ?? is it not possible at the moment ??
could you give me advice for windows and linux which initiator should work with : Changer, DVD-ROM (including authentisation to css encrytion)
Thanks
Stefan
Well, a SCSI command just fails while executed by the device. I am trying to understand why... The only anomaly I see now is too small timeout - 2 seconds. Have you added -timeout:2 parameter for \\.\Changer0? If so try to change it to -timeout:108000. If not then there is a bug in StarWind.Anonymous wrote: I still have some trouble using the changer and the dvdrom on the remote side. It looks like the trouble starts when the application tries to use some exotic IOCTL's to controll the chager or authenticate to the dvd-rom to deCSS the DVD.
Hi Stefan,Anonymous wrote:...
dmesg:
scsi0 : UNH-IOL iSCSI Initiator. RPM: unh_iscsi-1.4-02_dev. Kernel: 2.6.8-rc3. Built on Do Aug 5 22:47:09 CEST 2004.
iscsi connected to target at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3260
iscsi socket cc637ba0 tcp Nagle Algorithm is off
iscsi rx-0-00 started, pid 12959
iscsi tx-0-00 started, pid 12960
blk_queue_max_hw_segments: set to minimum 1
Vendor: KODAK Model: CDL-144 Rev: 1.41
Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 8
SCSI Media Changer driver v0.22 for Linux 2.6.8-rc3
scsi_to_iscsi:833:/usr/src/unh-iscsi/src/initiator/iscsi_initiator.c: ***ERROR*** request_bufflen 255 not zero when sc_data_direction 0 not READ or WRITE
ch0: type #1 (mt): 0x0+1 [medium transport]
ch0: type #2 (st): 0x1000+162 [storage]
ch0: type #3 (ie): 0x100+1 [import/export]
ch0: type #4 (dt): 0x200+1 [data transfer]
scsi_to_iscsi:833:/usr/src/unh-iscsi/src/initiator/iscsi_initiator.c: ***ERROR*** request_bufflen 256 not zero when sc_data_direction 0 not READ or WRITE
ch0: dt 0x200: not this SCSI bus
ch0: INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS, may take some time ...
do_scsi_response:1280:/usr/src/unh-iscsi/src/initiator/initiator_utilities.c: ***ERROR*** rx-0-00 scsi response error from target, status 0x02
18 bytes of sense data
0: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 3e 01 00 00
16: 00 00
ch0: ... finished
Attached scsi changer ch0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
when acessing the dvd-rom I get simliar results. Could this be a hardware problem ??
The version 1.4.2 you are using is too outdated.scsi0 : UNH-IOL iSCSI Initiator. RPM: unh_iscsi-1.4-02_dev. Kernel: 2.6.8-rc3. Built on Do Aug 5 22:47:09 CEST 2004.
are reported because of using the old iSCSI initiator modules with much newer Linux kernel.scsi_to_iscsi:833:/usr/src/unh-iscsi/src/initiator/iscsi_initiator.c: ***ERROR*** request_bufflen 256 not zero when sc_data_direction 0 not READ or WRITE
very good new ! I can controll the changer - watch dvd's (even encrypted) you did a really nice job ... WELL DONE ..
I've no more error messages in the StarWind.Log.
Thank you very much and I wish you very much success with your product.
Stefan
Anonymous wrote:Hi Alex,
the unh version I using is current.cvs It looks like they didn't change the version.h in cvs - only in release
Thanks again
Stefan
P.S. getting the changer to run as a target under linux isn't easy