Problems reading CDRW after writing
Marc Evans
Marc at SoftwareHackery.Com
Tue Jan 3 09:07:26 PST 2006
Hello -
I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4 system. I have a CDRW
drive attached, which identifies as follows:
acd0: CDRW <CD-RW 52X24/K.NC> at ata1-slave UDMA33
I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks periodically. I use the
following commands to produce the backup:
burncd erase
sleep 2 # needed to avoid READY error
tar czf - ... | burncd data - fixate
This appears to work fine, from the perspective of the output of the commands,
e.g. I see output like:
blanking CD - 100 % done
next writeable LBA 0
writing from stdin
written this track 633420 KB total 633420 KB
fixating CD, please wait..
My problem is that attempts to read the data back, always fail:
# tar tzf /dev/acd0
tar: Error opening archive: Error reading '/dev/acd0': Input/output error
# ls -l /dev/*cd*
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 93 Jan 3 10:33 /dev/acd0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 127 Dec 30 14:26 /dev/acd0t01
No errors are shown in /var/log/messages.
I have also tried writing an ISO9660 image and mounting it, with similar
problems at mount time.
The above said, I am able to create CD-R data disks and mount them or otherwise
use them. I have tried several different CD-RW media, and played with -s (the
media is rated as 12x), but have observed no changes.
Can anyone suggest solutions?
Thanks in advance - Marc
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