On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:52:39 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > I am not a happy camper. > > Now that I've ``upgraded'' from 8.3-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE it appears that > good old burncd no longer works, apparently because the CD/DVD drive is > now exclusively handled as an ATAPICAM device.
That was to be expected. > So I try to use cdrecord and I get this: > > # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnfree FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso Try instead: # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=12 -v -eject -tao -data <file> Some drives get crazy when you don't provide a slow burning speed. Add other options (burnfree) if needed. Just for comparison: If you want to burn a music CD: # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=12 -v -eject -dao -audio <track> You can see the obvious difference -data vs. -audio, but also -tao (track at once) vs -dao (disk at once). > cdrecord: The current problem looks like a buffer underrun. Is your drive faster than your disk which "hands in" the data? Try to reduce the writing speed. > cdrecord: It looks like 'driveropts=burnfree' does not work for this drive. A clear message. You can use the -prcap option to find out what your recorder will support; see "man cdrecord" for details. > So, um, WTF? To whom am supposed to "report" this failure? To your superior. :-) > And more to the point, how can I burn a simple damn CD now? Try the command mentioned above. I've left burncd somewhere in FreeBSD 5 and I'm now using cdrecord exclusively. When run as a !root user, make sure permissions to access the recorder are set properly. Maybe add an alias for your dialog shell. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"