From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 00:11:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F0F16A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from anubis.deymos.com (unknown [216.93.169.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 600E343D1D for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@crazylogic.net) Received: (qmail 52383 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2004 04:10:46 -0000 Received: from 66-207-217-138.beanfield.net (HELO laptop) (66.207.217.138) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Feb 2004 04:10:46 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c3ea0b$c8ada970$c901a8c0@laptop> From: "Matt Gostick" To: Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:47:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Acer CDRW [ burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCBLANK): Device busy ] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:11:25 -0000 I'm having a bad month. My harddrive died and I lost ALOT of data that = is gonna take time to get back, I didn't have a good backup policy. I = now have installed a cd-rewriter into my box, and plan to burn a cd once = a week or so. My problem is that I can't seem to get is working... = even though I've the same drive working on another FreeBSD box. FreeBSD nowhere.nowhere.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov = 27 23:17:53 EST 2003 = root@nowhere.nowhere.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NOWHERE i386 gaspra# burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCBLANK): Device busy gaspra# /usr/sbin/burncd -f /dev/acd0 data /backup.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Input/output error When I burn with a normal cdr disc, it works fine. What does this mean? How do I fix it? A search on google and the mail = list doesn't exactly report a slew or questions or answers. Thanks, Matt.