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Date:      Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:39:44 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        Marc Evans <Marc@SoftwareHackery.Com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems reading CDRW after writing
Message-ID:  <20060103193944.408a6452@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20060103120645.W37815@me.softwarehackery.com>
References:  <20060103120645.W37815@me.softwarehackery.com>

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Marc Evans <Marc@SoftwareHackery.Com> wrote:
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> I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4 system. I
> have a CDRW drive attached, which identifies as follows:
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>  	acd0: CDRW <CD-RW 52X24/K.NC> at ata1-slave UDMA33
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> I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks periodically.
> I use the following commands to produce the backup:
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>  	burncd erase
>  	sleep 2		# needed to avoid READY error
>  	tar czf - ... | burncd data - fixate
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> This appears to work fine, from the perspective of the output of the
> commands, e.g. I see output like:
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> blanking CD - 100 % done
> next writeable LBA 0
> writing from stdin
> written this track 633420 KB total 633420 KB
> fixating CD, please wait..

> I have also tried writing an ISO9660 image and mounting it, with
> similar problems at mount time.
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> The above said, I am able to create CD-R data disks and mount them or
> otherwise use them. I have tried several different CD-RW media, and
> played with -s (the media is rated as 12x), but have observed no
> changes.

You could use readcd's c2scan option to check if your CD-RWs are OK.
readcd is part of (/usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools/) if you don't have
atapicam in your kernel you have to kldload it.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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