HALd + atapicam + growisofs leads to burn failure - or - How to burn DVDs with Gnome ?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:24 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there any good howto about burning DVD disks under modern Gnome with
> FreeBSD ?
> 
> I have RELENG_7 FreeBSD + recent Gnome from ports tree.
> 
> Burning CDs is ok with both nautilus and burncd utility.
> 
> But wen I've going to burn DVD I've had a problem - 
> 
> scenario was - loading atapicam (my favorite growisofs from sysutils/dvd
> +rw-tools does not support acd driver)
> 
> At that point I had two cdrom devices /dev/acd0 and /dev/cd0.
> 
> Then I've started to burn some data with growisofs (on /dev/cd0
> + /dev/pass0)
> after burning some percents hald (or whatever) detects new disk in
> drive !!!
> and  then tried to mount it. This leads to write failure by growisofs.
> 
> Only solution I've found - is to stop hald before burning, but it looks
> ugly for me.
> 
> Any other ideas ?

As it stands now, I do not think there is a good solution.  When GNOME
2.22 is released we will be importing hal 0.5.10 which includes some
tools that will allow you to lock a device and disable media polling.
If you want to try it out, you can check out the MarcusCom CVS tree
(http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html).

Joe

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