[Novalug] Raspberry Pi: driver for Optiarc BD ROM BC-5500S

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Sun Jul 14 11:11:14 EDT 2013


Further reading:
http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/



On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 16:48 -0400, Alan Day wrote:
> Jerry w was right!!  Found a powered USB hub on the returns table at the 
> Micro Center for $10 & the drive came right up.
> 
> Tnx guys for your support -- learned something about device drivers as a 
> collateral benefit.  Still don't know how to relate a specific device to 
> a specific driver but that is a topic for another day.
> 
>      Alan
> 
> jerry w wrote:
> > was wondering if the USB has  enough power
> > to recognize the Hard Drive or equivalent,
> > as the pi was intended to be driveless/
> > SD HD equivalent.
> >
> > YMMV, just $0.02 - inflation
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu> wrote:
> >> Your original mail identified the device drivers used: "cdrom & sr_mod".  On
> >> your Pi, try to modprobe those drivers, and see if they show up in lsmod's
> >> output.
> >>
> >> If not, you need to recompile your kernel and add the drivers in.  It's
> >> conceiveable that the Pi kernel you're using doesn't have the drivers.
> >> Alternately, your user may not be in the cdrom group on the Pi, so it
> >> doesn't get mounted.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Alan Day <dayalan@nova.org> wrote:
> >>> Tnx for responding to my question.
> >>>
> >>> How can I determine which device driver is supporting my particular
> >>> device?  If the device is /dev/sr1 for example, how can I back up to the
> >>> specific driver?
> >>>
> >>> If I can ID the specific driver source code, it can be compiled & the
> >>> resulting object code stuck in an appropriate directory.   I've already
> >>> built ddrescue & wine from source on the Raspberry Pi -- I'm astounded
> >>> that the compiliers, et al, are available on the Pi !!
> >>>
> >>> How can I find the specific source files in the repository?
> >>>
> >>> Have some questions on wine but that should be a different thread.
> >>>
> >>>        Alan
> >>>
> >>> Christopher Jones wrote:
> >>>> That might be tricky. Raspberry Pi is an arm device so software
> >>>> support is difficult enough to come by.. though fedora and debian come
> >>>> to mind. Who knows if they have any blue ray drivers ported to pi
> >>>> though. Its a heavily protected proprietary protocol. Probably not at
> >>>> the top of anyones list. I would start with the repo on whatever your
> >>>> running now. Then go to the pidora site and check and see if it has
> >>>> any blue ray drivers for it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Alan Day <dayalan@nova.org
> >>>> <mailto:dayalan@nova.org>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>      Bought a no-name Blu-Ray DVD RW from Amazon & am trying to get it
> >>>>      running on a Raspberry Pi (wheezy).   The drive works under XP
> >>>> (after
> >>>>      loading the provided driver), OS X,  kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot,
> >>>>      8.04
> >>>>      Hardy Heron,  & Fedora 16.  There is no identification of the drive
> >>>> --
> >>>>      the instructions are in Chinese with some "English".
> >>>>
> >>>>      Clearly, the main stream versions of linux can handle this drive,
> >>>> how
> >>>>      can I get a Raspberry Pi device driver that will support it?
> >>>>
> >>>>      Used versions of kubuntu to get as much info as possible.  dmesg
> >>>> gives
> >>>>      this info.
> >>>>
> >>>>      scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Optiarc  BD ROM BC-5500S  1.77 PQ:
> >>>>      0 ANSI: 0
> >>>>      sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda
> >>>> tray
> >>>>      sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
> >>>>      sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
> >>>>
> >>>>      When the drive is plugged into the kubuntu box, cdrom & sr_mod are
> >>>> the
> >>>>      only new modules loaded.  The Optiarc site only has windows drivers
> >>>>      available.
> >>>>
> >>>>      On the Raspberry Pi the dmesg is:
> >>>>
> >>>>      usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9512
> >>>>      usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> >>>>      hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
> >>>>      hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
> >>>>      usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
> >>>>      usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
> >>>>      usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> >>>>
> >>>>      --
> >>>>      W. Alan Day<dayalan@nova.org <mailto:dayalan@nova.org>>
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> >>>> --
> >>>> Chris Jones
> >>>> RHCSA
> >>>>
> >>>
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