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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:21 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> 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 ? 

The acd device is ignored by default.  Checkout your lshal output.  You
should see the acd0 device has info.ignore=true.

Joe

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