Rasberry Pi CD drive

I wish to use an external CD drive using an IDE to USB adapter. Drive starts but locks up system. Has this been done by anyone? or is this not yet implemented

Is the adapter getting power from the Pi, or from another external source?

Adapter gets power from USB hub but drve itself is powered externally.

I’d be inclined to say, see if it freezes in Raspbian. Adapter could be requesting too much power, and the Pi crashes.

Not sure if it helps:
We’ve tried three slimline SATA DVD Drives on a Raspberry Pi connected by USB to SATA interfaces, they all worked!
We’ve also tried many IDE to Sata interfaces none of them worked on an Iyonix or a RiscPC.
All the USB / IDE enclosures we tried have worked with IDE Hard drives on Iyonix & Raspberry Pi.

I’ve successfully used an older, separately powered, external IDE harddrive board with a 5.25" CD drive on the RPi a couple of months ago and it was supported then. WallWart supplies both board and drive. Also used a smaller 2.5" drive with an externally powered USB hub. Although for stuff now, I use a networked RISC PC and share.

In the past I use a external LG (inside is USB to IDE) and a internal Sony with a powered USB to SATA adapter. No problems. CDVDBurn and CDRipEnc works fine if a CDROM is configured via !Boot doubleclick.

I’ve got one that was successful when running one of the earlier alpha images but doesn’t work now with the RC6 image.

It’s an old slim-line Sony drive pulled from a laptop in a USB-IDE enclosure powered from twin USB leads from a powered hub.

Last night at the SAUG meeting we tried an experiment.

I took along an externally powered LG USB DVD writer that I have used successfully with my BBxM to write and read DVDs. We tried connecting it to an RPi and using CDVDBurn.

CDVDBurn recognised the drive as a reader but not as a writer, which seems bizarre but was consistently true. Trying to read a data CD produced the message “Bad response from device”, if I recall correctly – I’m sure it began with “Bad response from”, anyway.

The same result was obtained from the RISC OS RPi images from October 10 and November 12.

So it doesn’t look promising right now.

Steffen, if you’re reading: Can I get some diagnostic information for you?

I even have a USB analyser, although it’s full/low speeds only so has to be used with my USB 1.1 hub to slow the device down to full speed.

Hi Dave, setting the log level to 5000 and starting up CDVDBurn again is always a good idea.

It sounds a lot like no commands can be sent to the drive. Recognizing the drive as a reader works via a device scan which is done without doing any specific SCSI_Ops. All this is not within control of CDVDBurn unfortunately. Looks like a USB/SoftSCSI issue.