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Wrote on the subject of Any sightings of ramen-ya in the US? at Jan. 21, 2009, 8:24 a.m...
The Keeper wrote:
http://www.ajisen.ca

Heck, we've got those on every street corner ! They're not too bad. Kinda hit-n-run but okay. Almost cafeteria style, not what I'd call fine dining but some good dishes on the menu. If they use the same vinegar in Norte Americano the cucumber strips in vinergar is really good, I always get those.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at Jan. 21, 2009, 7:15 p.m...
dc_v01 wrote:
... some submissive or subservient Asian women based on stereotypes ...

Ah, the demure little David Bowie China Girl ... right.
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Wrote on the subject of Quiet SCSI harddrives at Jan. 26, 2009, 10:04 p.m...
josehill wrote: I love my Fuel, but it is definitely not a quiet box.

I can barely hear mine over the tinnitus ... silver cloud ? :D
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Wrote on the subject of Need command format HD SGI Fuel at Feb. 7, 2009, 8:31 p.m...
powerg5 wrote:
I recent buy original IRIX 6.5.29, i need to low level format my HD in Fuel 700MHZ...???

I reinstall all.

Guys, this ain't Windows. Why do you want to do that ?

To be borderline rude, if you don't already know how then you probably shouldn't be doing it.
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Wrote on the subject of Need command format HD SGI Fuel at Feb. 8, 2009, midnight..
josehill wrote:
Of course, it depends a little on what you want to get out of the machine. If someone is a complete newbie, it might be better to follow your advice and get comfortable with IRIX as it is already installed before attempting to start from scratch.

Yes, that's what I intended.

I just see people rushing in, "Gotta format the drive ! Gotta reinstall Windows !" before they've even got an idea what's going on. In the case of Irix, that's not usually a good idea.

And no, jose , you don't count. But then, you wouldn't be asking that question, would you ?
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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at Feb. 18, 2009, 7:14 p.m...
nekonoko wrote:
sgefant wrote: That crash probably is not related to python. Do you have a .B.blend file in your home directory? if not, try creating one by running a older version of blender and pressing ctrl+u. If blender 2.48 works then, you've hit the same bug as I did.


Perform that step and it should work.

I never went farther with this since I don't use Blender and it wasn't worth the effort to install then de-install two versions just to see if it worked ... but if someone had a .B blend file I'd probably test again (hint hint).
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Wrote on the subject of compiling clamav at Feb. 18, 2009, 7:53 p.m...
mattst88 wrote: http://www.xoup.net/peeves/virii.php

-um -i -o, -um -um -o
-a -orum -is, -a -a -is

:D
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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at Feb. 19, 2009, midnight..
nekonoko wrote: Okay, here's mine:

Solves the problem instantly. Don't know how well it works because I am a Blender I.D-ten-T but putting that file in the home directory solved the problem on a 6.5.30 Fool .

It certainly opens fast, I can say that.

Gracias, Senor Neko.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at Feb. 20, 2009, 8:47 p.m...
ajerimez wrote:
Update: So for the past few weeks I've been seeing a Chinese girl, Sophy.

Jesus, AJ. Run. Change your name, change your city, change your career before it's too late.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at Feb. 21, 2009, 7:07 a.m...
skywriter wrote:
funny how often a sample of one can confirm suspicions.

My sample is larger than one. I'm kind of a slow learner :?
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at Feb. 21, 2009, 9:52 p.m...
unixmuseum wrote:
Mine's real Japanese ...

Japan != China, that's for damned sure.

Funny ... if Japan hadn't blundered into that stupid Pearl Harbor trick the world would be quite different today. China with Japanese running things could be quite a force to contend with.

Perhaps that's what Washington was worried about in 1941 ... dumb move, Yamamoto. Dumb dumb dumb.

unixmuseum wrote:
...it's more a sense of duty and self-sacrifice ...

Exactly the two things China does not have. China is a case of family values run wild because of Confucianism. If it is not your immediate family then your duty is to lie, cheat, and steal as much as possible for your family. And sacrifice ? You've got to be kidding. The only person who exists in a Little Emperor's mind is myself ! Me me me !!! They may as well be Republicans. Or Ayn Rand acolytes ...

Of course there are many exceptions, but in Shanghai ... well, Shanghai is the new armpit of the Universe. Shenzhen is another unpleasant body part :D
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Wrote on the subject of ...How To Clean Up CAD Blue-Prints To Print Out? at Feb. 28, 2009, 2:34 a.m...
Hate to be a spoilsport but ... all the fossy bitch cad programs are not ready for prime time ... there's one or two that look like they may have possibilities but they just aren't there yet. In fact, from the looks of the interfaces they'll never get there. :(

Pretty sure Blender will export in dxf.

I would personally hunt for a copy of Cadkey 7 for DOS on fleabay or elsewhere. Should be very cheap. It was the best wireframe 3D cad program ever and I think you could get it to run in Softwindows. You could import your dxf's from Blender into Cadkey and print from there. Or set up an OS/2 box, it runs great in a VDM.

It's also very nice to use on its own but different from the current solid modelling paradigm. With a wireframe app you draw edges and connect them, with most solids programs you throw a blob onto the screen and constrain it. Different thought pattern.

But all CAD programs use real numbers instead of that pull-it push-it approach that you artiste types like. Yuck, artists ! How the hell can you know how big anything is that way ?
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel prototype (BLUE!) at March 5, 2009, 6:13 p.m...
sgtprobe wrote: Yeah, I know, but I meant that the "turbo air" is a sticker put on the transparent plastic, got a Fool myself, so I know that it is transparent plastic. But maybe it's printed on, instead of a sticker? :)

Scan it, jan-jaap, and we can all upgrade our Fools !
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel prototype (BLUE!) at March 10, 2009, 8:06 a.m...
^^ :idea: I think I'm gonna chrome mine .... should be good for another 50 hz.
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel prototype (BLUE!) at March 16, 2009, 11:31 p.m...
pentium wrote: Oh great. Do I have to go and make a signature for this now? :roll:

Can I have one for the x350 ?
hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Pixar Image Computer at March 21, 2009, 12:33 a.m...
delta wrote: I spot one machine in a " junk shop" somewhere in the center of Athens, sunday i will pass to see it and i will take few pictures.

delta, whatever you do don't "pass it and take a few pictures." If it's cheap, grab it. There are people who will pay money ...
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Wrote on the subject of Pixar Image Computer at March 21, 2009, 7:15 p.m...
R-ten-K wrote: I don't consider $20 to be lots of money :-)

Let's put it on eBay and see if the ending price breaks $20 or not :D
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Wrote on the subject of LSI SAS/SATA HBA's and the Fuel (or other IP35 Systems) at March 26, 2009, 11:08 p.m...
mapesdhs wrote: I'm surprised your SCSI numbers are so bad. I get much better than that:.

I don't doubt it. But in this case I wasn't interested in winning the Benchmark Trophy, I just wanted to see what I could expect from the sata drive. Probably had ten applications running during those tests ... I was trying to simulate the real world. Or as close as it can get to Shanghai.

Initially I expected the sata drive to come off very second-best. I planned to put all my applications and short-term storage on the scsi boot drive and just use the sata drive for big junk that I don't access so often.

Turned out I didn't need to do that. I still try to keep the apps centralized down on the boot drive but it's not necessary. Things run just as fast and transfers are just as speedy from the sata drive.

ymmv
hamei
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Bought by Rackable at April 1, 2009, 7:23 a.m...
sybrfreq wrote: I guess we can say sgi is dead now, no more limping along on life support.

Might be good. If the new owners have some imagination and business sense .... You'll have to admit, it couldn't get much worse than it has been over the past decade.
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Wrote on the subject of Origin 3400, 20 x R12k @ 400 MHz, 21 GB at April 7, 2009, 12:09 a.m...
japes wrote: Still waiting on getting a replacement PIMM, but it's all loaded up with memory.


Pretty nice ! What's the deal with the standard and premium memory tho ? In the past it looked like all the 1 gig sticks were premium while the smaller dimms were standard, but you have 512 meg dimms that show up both ways ... ??
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 15, 2009, 1:20 a.m...
ajerimez wrote:
(In other words, Hamei, how did you know?)

<irony> just a lucky guess ... </irony>
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Wrote on the subject of VRED: blatant commercial at April 18, 2009, 6:44 a.m...
Brombear wrote:
We will showcase a very detailed model of a car consisting of 60 million polygons with a development version showing our global illumination implementation.

At what point does it get to be easier just to make the car and take a photo ? :P
hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at April 18, 2009, 11:21 a.m...
mapesdhs wrote: Hate to ask btw, but what is it about successive versions since 2.44 that's mean the render has become slower? (now by quite a margin)

Ian, Ian, Ian ... you've been around for ages. You should speak developerese by now ! "tons of new awesome features in this version" = "slower than dogshit."
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 20, 2009, 3:25 a.m...
schultzj wrote:
You just can't generalize.

Oh yes you can.
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My wife and I were classmates at Calif. State University before she errr, umm, hijacked me. :)

Exactly !
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 21, 2009, 2:44 a.m...
schultzj wrote:
Hamei, as my mentor (blazin' yoda) would no-doubt say, "breathe......inhale......breathe.." :D

Your mentor doesn't live in China ....
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 22, 2009, 2:51 a.m...
Shultzie, this would be a good time to close the mouth. Trust me, you have no idea.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 26, 2009, 7:49 p.m...
vishnu wrote:
Buy her a ticket on the Alone Train to Aloneville, with stops in Ex-Girlfriend Junction and West Breakin' Up With You...

We'll see how this plays out. Usually they don't go gentle into that long dark night.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at April 27, 2009, 9:07 a.m...
vishnu wrote:
That's why you sign 'em up at soyouvebeendumped.com... 8-)

That won't even slow down a Chinese girl. We ain't talkin small time amatoors here, vish. You're barely to the Bear level merit badge when you get the phone call "I'm breaking everything in the house (smash ! in the background), hurry up and come home so I can (smash) kill you (smash) and then I'm going to (smash smash) kill myself."

Why gee, sweety, I'll do everything possible to get there as soon as I can, promise.

All in a day's fun with Chinese women. Hang in there, AJ. At least you won't be bored.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at May 1, 2009, 11:41 p.m...
vishnu wrote:
I spent many years working with concentrated hydrogen peroxide (70 percent and above) and just the vapors wafting through the lab turned my hair blonde... :shock:

You built torpedoes ? I always wanted a small submarine ...
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Wrote on the subject of LSI SAS/SATA HBA's and the Fuel (or other IP35 Systems) at May 6, 2009, 5:53 p.m...
^^ Pretty much the same as what I got.
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Wrote on the subject of Realsoft 3D Demo for IRIX at May 10, 2009, 3:25 a.m...
Just downed it and unzipped, started instantly on the ol' Fool. . I don't know how to run Blender but made a couple of cubes and cones and such without problem.

The interface is weird but it does look really nice. How about a spaceball-enabled version ?
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Bought by Rackable at May 13, 2009, 6:10 p.m...
PymbleSoftware wrote: They canned Origin a couple of years ago.

No, that was the other SGI. This SGI just put it back into the sales lit :D

Looks kind of like a minnow swallowed a shark, became the shark. We know the other guys were losers, the new ones might be better. Let's hope for the best and cut them some slack for a while. (Dual-core 1 ghz R18K solder-in replacement come on baaaby !!)
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Wrote on the subject of The new SGI corporate image must be a joke right ? at May 14, 2009, 6:20 p.m...
Pardon me for breaking the forum rules but you guys are a bunch of idiots. Rackable just bought the place, it's only a stupid logo, let's see how they do with things that actually matter like sevice, support, and products instead of running off at the mouth about a damned font. It was stupid of SGI to piss away big money on a font and it's equally stupid to have a heart attack, wailing and gnashing your teeth over a different one. "The magic is gone" ... what a crock. It's not magic, they make and sell computers.

What are we, a bunch of teenage girls here, all upset about the new Hello Kitty box ?
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Wrote on the subject of The new SGI corporate image must be a joke right ? at May 14, 2009, 11:06 p.m...
iKitsune wrote: I guess I get the message and I'll shut up though.

I'm sorry but jeeze, guys, it's just a logo and they just bought the place. Cut them a little slack, maybe ?
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at May 15, 2009, 8:26 a.m...
ajerimez wrote:
Well, that's that, I guess.

Maybe :) I've known of several cases where they didn't actually give up for years. One just got married to her prey about three months ago. Took her twelve years but she succeeded. :P
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at May 15, 2009, 10:02 p.m...
Dr. Dave wrote:
Man, I've never had the pleasure of being stalked like that ....

Dr Dave, you wouldn't last a week. Plump juicy gazelle, pride of hungry lionesses. My money is on the lionesses. They are awesome in action.

AJ, I am surprised you got out with your life.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at May 15, 2009, 10:16 p.m...
Dr. Dave wrote:
heh - I'm like 6-foot-2 as well... they better know how to jump high.

The part they attack is not that high off the ground :P

schultzj wrote:
As far as Chinese women throwing tantrums: my wife is Chinese and she is more cool headed then I am. :lol:

The stalking aspect I can't say I have witnessed.

You have a sample of one. There are about eleven million right outside my window here.
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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at May 16, 2009, 1:05 a.m...
schultzj wrote:
Yeah, I must admit my sampling is quite narrow. Just my wife and her sisters and cousins

The trouble with a small sample is that if you get an extreme for a sample, you can get really far out in left field. A sample of one could be Kenny Stabler or Nancy Pelosi or Ayn Rand or Charles Ng or Edward R Murrow. One would get totally different ideas about foreigners from a small number of examples ... people vary a lot even within a stereotype.

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I know from what my wife tells me that things in china border on barbaric ...

:D
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but I think her viewpoint may be biased by her leaving guandong at 8 years old and not really having much interaction with her relatives over there.

To be honest, even i would not say barbaric. Well, not usually. Right after being run over on the sidewalk by some jerk on a motor scooter I might :) but normally, not barbaric. Just very very different. Some things actually better but others, less so. Guangdong is generally more like the West than areas farther north or west..

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Oh well. I am done with women anyway.

There is a lot to be said for a Boston Terrier :P
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Wrote on the subject of Realsoft 3D Demo for IRIX at May 20, 2009, 9:34 a.m...
sgefant wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled why it doesn't work on your systems.

Me, too. Usually if there's any crashing to be done, my computers are right there in the thick of it.

This one ran fine for me tho (Fuel, 6.5.30). Weird.
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Wrote on the subject of LSI SAS/SATA HBA's and the Fuel (or other IP35 Systems) at May 28, 2009, 2:58 a.m...
PymbleSoftware wrote:
recondas wrote: My guess is that this *isn't* directly a controller or SATA issue. Both seem to have done what's expected of them - the LSI controller and the attached DVD-RW appear to IRIX when and where they should.

I'm starting to wonder if the underlying issue is IRIX's inability to correctly interpret/implement the use of <at least some> DVD-RW drives. The syslog error message complaining about an invalid command code is familiar - I got command code error messages when I connected a DVD-RW via one of the Yamaha SCSI>IDE adapters <and, as I recall, even with certain SCSI CD-RW drives>. I don't know enough about SCSI command codes to interpret how the implications of the command code error message < [Alert] Illegal request: Invalid command code (asc=0x20, asq=0x0) CDB: 1a 0 3f 0 fe 0 >.

Its a mode sense command.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_Mode_Sense_Command

Its asking: "send me all your mode pages".. no more than 254 (0xfe) bytes.
The optical drive doesn't have SCSI mode pages... its SATA.
This error is usually not a show stopper.
It shouldn't fail because the device its talking to is not sharing its mode pages.


While I was back inside the Fool I re-attached the Pioneer DVD-Writer.

1) Yes, get that mesage with a small variation :

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dksc2d2vol: [Alert] Illegal request: Invalid command code (asc=0x20, asq=0x0)  CDB: 15 10 0 0 c 0


2) oddly, the desktop message when you double-click the icon is

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DVD disk type is still being identified.
Double-click again when icon shows DVD type above drive.

Except the icon does show the DVD type above the drive and it does change properly when you go from DVD to CD. Or it oes this about as reliably as the normal SCSI DVD-ROM does, which ain't all that great.

3) Off we go to cdrecord. Mmm, good

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fewel 10# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0     0) *
0,1,0     1) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST336706LW      ' '0108' Disk
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) *
1,1,0   101) *
1,2,0   102) *
1,3,0   103) *
1,4,0   104) *
1,5,0   105) *
1,6,0   106) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4167B' 'DL11' Removable CD-ROM
1,7,0   107) *
scsibus2:
2,0,0   200) 'ATA     ' 'Hitachi HDP72505' 'A5CA' Disk
2,1,0   201) *
2,2,0   202) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-216 ' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM
2,3,0   203) *
2,4,0   204) *
2,5,0   205) *
2,6,0   206) *
2,7,0   207) *

That's encouraging ...

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fewel 15# cdrecord dev=2,2,0 -prcap
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '2,2,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 2 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-216 '
Revision       : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

Does read CD-R media
Does write CD-R media
Does read CD-RW media
Does write CD-RW media
Does read DVD-ROM media
Does read DVD-R media
Does write DVD-R media
Does read DVD-RAM media
Does write DVD-RAM media
Does support test writing

Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
Does read digital audio blocks
Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately
Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording
Does read multi-session CDs
Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2
Does not read CD bar code
Does not read R-W subcode information
Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in
Does return CD media catalog number
Does return CD ISRC information
Does support C2 error pointers
Does not deliver composite A/V data

Does play audio CDs
Number of volume control levels: 256
Does support individual volume control setting for each channel
Does support independent mute setting for each channel
Does not support digital output on port 1
Does not support digital output on port 2

Loading mechanism type: tray
Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command
Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper
Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command
Is not currently in a media-locked state
Does not support changing side of disk
Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature
Does not support Individual Disk Present feature

Maximum read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)
Current read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)
Maximum write speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)
Current write speed:  5644 kB/s (CD  32x, DVD  4x, BD  1x)
Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV
Buffer size in KB: 2000
Copy management revision supported: 1
Number of supported write speeds: 8
Write speed # 0:  8467 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  48x, DVD  6x, BD  1x)
Write speed # 1:  7056 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)
Write speed # 2:  5644 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  32x, DVD  4x, BD  1x)
Write speed # 3:  4233 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  24x, DVD  3x, BD  0x)
Write speed # 4:  3528 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  20x, DVD  2x, BD  0x)
Write speed # 5:  2822 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  16x, DVD  2x, BD  0x)
Write speed # 6:  1764 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD  10x, DVD  1x, BD  0x)
Write speed # 7:   705 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD   4x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)

Current performance according to MMC get performance:

Maximum performance according to MMC get performance:
End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     8468 == 48x CD
Write Speed:    8468 == 48x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     7056 == 40x CD
Write Speed:    7056 == 40x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     5645 == 32x CD
Write Speed:    5645 == 32x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     4234 == 24x CD
Write Speed:    4234 == 24x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     3528 == 20x CD
Write Speed:    3528 == 20x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     2823 == 16x CD
Write Speed:    2823 == 16x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:     1764 == 10x CD
Write Speed:    1764 == 10x CD

End LBA:      281335
Read Speed:      706 == 4x CD
Write Speed:     706 == 4x CD


Supported CD-RW media types according to MMC-4 feature 0x37:
Does write multi speed       CD-RW media
Does write high  speed       CD-RW media
Does write ultra high speed  CD-RW media
Does write ultra high speed+ CD-RW media

Supported profiles according to MMC-4 feature list:
Current: CD-ROM
Profile: DVD+R/DL
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: Removable Disk
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-ROM (current)

Supported features according to MMC-4 feature list:
Feature: 'Profile List' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'Core' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'Morphing' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'Removable Medium' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'Write Protect'
Feature: 'Random Readable' (current)
Feature: 'Multi Read' (current)
Feature: 'CD Read' (current)
Feature: 'DVD Read'
Feature: 'Random Writable'
Feature: 'Incremental Streaming Writable'
Feature: 'Formattable'
Feature: 'Defect Management'
Feature: 'Restricted Overwrite'
Feature: 'DVD+RW'
Feature: 'DVD+R'
Feature: 'Rigid Restricted Overwrite'
Feature: 'CD Track at Once'
Feature: 'CD Mastering'
Feature: 'DVD-R/-RW Write'
Feature: 'Layer Jump Recording'
Feature: 'CD-RW Write'
Feature: 'DVD+R/DL Read'
Feature: 'Power Management' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'S.M.A.R.T.'
Feature: 'CD Audio analog play'
Feature: 'Microcode Upgrade'
Feature: 'Time-out' (current) (persistent)
Feature: 'DVD-CSS'
Feature: 'Real Time Streaming' (current)
Feature: 'Logical Unit Serial Number' (current) (persistent)    Serial: 'HLDL081621CN'
Feature: 'Disk Control Blocks'
Feature: 'DVD CPRM'

even more encouraging ...

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fewel 17# cdrecord dev=2,2,0 -minfo
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '2,2,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 2 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identifikation : 'DVD-RW  DVR-216 '
Revision       : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
WARNING: Phys disk size 2314080 differs from rzone size 2236704! Prerecorded disk?
WARNING: Phys start: 200704 Phys end 2514783
Mounted media class:      DVD
Mounted media type:       DVD-RAM
Disk Is erasable
data type:                standard
disk status:              illegal
session status:           complete
BG format status:         none
first track:              1
number of sessions:       1
first track in last sess: 1
last track in last sess:  1
Disk Is not unrestricted
Disk type: DVD, HD-DVD or BD

Track  Sess Type   Start Addr End Addr   Size
==============================================
1     1 Data   0          2236703    2236704

Last session start address:         0
Last session leadout start address: 2236704

Here's an interesting thing ...

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fewel 20# cdrecord dev=1,6,0 -minfo
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '1,6,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 6 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GSA-4167B'
Revision       : 'DL11'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
cdrecord: I/O error. get performance: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB:  AC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 00
status: 0xff 0x0 (Reserved)
Sense Bytes:
Sense Key: 0xFFFFFFFF [], Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.015s timeout 40s
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
WARNING: Phys disk size 2314080 differs from rzone size 2236704! Prerecorded disk?
WARNING: Phys start: 200704 Phys end 2514783
Mounted media class:      DVD
Mounted media type:       DVD-RAM
Disk Is erasable
data type:                standard
disk status:              illegal
session status:           complete
BG format status:         none
first track:              1
number of sessions:       1
first track in last sess: 1
last track in last sess:  1
Disk Is not unrestricted
Disk type: DVD, HD-DVD or BD

Track  Sess Type   Start Addr End Addr   Size
==============================================
1     1 Data   0          2236703    2236704

Last session start address:         0
Last session leadout start address: 2236704


That's from the LG IDE DVD-Writer via a Yamaha adapter. That one is a total pain in the ass to use for DVD-writing but I have been successful with it.

So next time I get a moment I'll try writing to the SATA drive with cdrecord. It seems to be talking nicely to the drive, even better than the yamadapted drive.

Seems likely there's something goofed up in the graphical desktop rather than the underlying system. Damned graphical methods totally screw up formatting a DVD-RAM, too.

One question for people with two CD-ROM drives - do you have a /CDROM2 entry in the file system ? I do not .... altho hinv shows :

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Integral SCSI controller 3: Version IEEE1394 SBP2
Disk drive / removable media: unit 2 on SCSI controller 3
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version SAS/SATA LS1064
Disk drive: unit 0 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 0)
CDROM: unit 2 on SCSI controller 2
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, single ended
CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1


definitely recognized ...

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fewel 4# scsicontrol -i /dev/scsi/sc*
/dev/scsi/sc0d1l0:  Disk          SEAGATE ST336706LW      0108
ANSI vers 3, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:  16bit synch linkedcmds cmdqueing
Device is  ready
/dev/scsi/sc1d6l0:  CD-ROM        HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4167BDL11
ANSI vers 2, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:
Device is  ready
/dev/scsi/sc2d0l0:  Disk          ATA     Hitachi HDP72505A5CA
ANSI vers 5, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:  cmdqueing
Device is  ready
/dev/scsi/sc2d2l0:  CD-ROM        PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-216 1.09
ANSI vers 0, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:
Device is  ready

Just doesn't work so far ...