atapi burning problems

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:30:36 +0100
Matej <mte at bomango.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> I've tried to burn a dao audio cd using burncd but the system
> hanged. No combination of keys worked. Several times. Then I tried
> to burn a tao audio cd. The process seemed to be without errors but
> the result was very scratchy cd with some kind of distorsion in
> there. I thought it was something wrong with .cdr files so I
> converted one back to .wav and it was ok. Then I tried to burn a
> data cd, but the result was an I/O error when trying to mount it.
> So the burning doesn't work. I have the NEC 3500 dvd writer.
> Is my only chance to try scsi emulation with atacom or is there
> anything else to do?

What commands you using for it?

Also check if the sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma is set to 1. I have had the
occasional problem caused by this with one drive I have.