From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 16:31:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-92-93.knology.net [24.214.92.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DD137B405 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:31:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAP0UrU17879; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:30:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200111250030.fAP0UrU17879@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nils Holland Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , Phil R , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: cannot burn a CD with burncd In-reply-to: Message from Nils Holland of "Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:02:24 +0100." <20011124215725.K32679-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:30:53 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland writes: > On 24 Nov 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > Nils Holland writes: > > > > > You will need to > > > make an ISO image out of the files you want to burn before you can > > > actually burn them. > > > > I must be disagreeable again. Here's my notes on a raw-file backup and > > verify which I did last January (using afio instead of tar): > > Yes, of course that works. *But* most users seem to expect that the CDs > they burn can be mounted and read from, i.e., they expect their burned CDs > to hehave like "normal" CDs (if that makes sense, but I guess you know > what I mean). People tend to think that they can do Point taken but the original posting wasn't having problems reading, the problem was in writing: Phil R said: > I have those errors on two BSD boxes with two different CDR!!! (Yamaha > 2200 20/10/40 and an old HP) > > #burncd -t -s4 -f /dev/acd0c data something.tar.gz fixate (or > different speed) > > next writeable LBA 0 > writing from file something.tar.gz size 218 KB > written this track 220 KB (100%) total 220 KB > fixating CD, please wait.. > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCCLOSEDISK): Input/output error Phil, in spite of the write errors, try "tar -tvzf /dev/acd0c" and see if it can read the disk all the way to the end of the file you wrote. And as others have suggested, try wrapping the file in an iso9660 fs to see if that makes any difference. I don't have a clue as to whether or not fixating a disc requires some sort of valid reference into prior data written or exactly what is involved. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message