On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM, b. f.<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. >> Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. > >>Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: > > First, I hope that you are using sysutils/cdrtools-devel rather than > sysutils/cdrtools. The latter is several years out of date, and the > upstream maintainer of the software has said that no one should be > using it, but the maintainer of the FreeBSD port has so far been > unwilling to update it. > > ... > >>And dmesg shows: >>acd0: FAILURE - READ_BUFFER ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 >>acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 > > It is not unusual for some errors to appear, even during normal > operation, so these don't necessarily indicate a problem, although it > was good that you posted them. You should run the cdrecord command > with -vv (yes, two v's) to get verbose error messages from cdrecord. > This should give you a better idea of why cdrecord is failing. If the > error messages from -vv are not enough, you can also add -VV, although > this affects the timing of the operations, and should be used with > care when recording. > > I have had problems like this in the past, when a disk was corrupted, > and cdrecord balked at blanking it. I used blank=all with either the > -immed flag, or the -force flag, or both, to solve the problems.
Honestly I didn't think this was the problem, but it seems I've had a bad virgin CD set. Two of them (of a set of 5) seem to work fine. I can write, rewrite and blank them. Aaarrghh! sorry for the noise. Nevertheless, I will try to update to cdrtools-devel since I have cdrtools installed Thanks to all of you. > > If you are using cdrtools, you should probably use the cd(4) driver > together with atapicam(4), rather than the acd(4) driver. To prevent > possible problems, it is safer to prevent both drivers from attaching > to the same device. I usually remove: > > device atapicd > > from my kernel, and just use: > > device ata > device atapicam > device scbus > device cd > device pass > > I don't know whether it is possible to disable the acd(4) driver using > just loader.conf(5), device.hints(5), or some other means at boot- or > run-time, but you could look into that if you don't want to go to the > trouble of removing it from your kernel. > > b. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
