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

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 03:01 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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).

Probably there is some way hide acd device from system or from HAL
only ? 

> Joe

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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru