Currently developing a driver to a CDRW drive in an embedded system. Need help.

Apr 26, 2006 3 Replies

I am currently developing a driver to a CDRW drive in an embedded system. I am currently having problems with new CDRW drives accepting any packet commands. (The ATA commands are handled.) The initialization sequence that I am using is as follows:


1) Hardware reset (Delay 10 seconds after reset is released.)


2) Software reset - setting then clearing the SRST bit in the Device control register


3) Identify Packet Device command (code A1) followed by reading the
256 words of device information.

(I have verified that all of the timing is correct.)



This sequence has been successful in pre 2004 CDRW drives (TEAC CD-W552D, SONY CRX230AD). However, in newer CDRW drives (TEAC CD-W552GB, SONY CRX230AD) as soon as I set the command register for a PACKET COMMAND (command code A0), the check (or error) bit is set in the status register and the error register indicates a sense code of



  1. Is there an additional initialization step that I am missing? I have gone through the ATA/ATAPI 5 Spec and have not found anything that I am missing.

Chris


Chris,

Have you seen this ?

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I am not answering your question directly, but the author of the link above appears to be sufficiently cynical that he might be helpful :)

Regards,

Mark.

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