burncd: Device busy error.

[Robert Backhaus]

On 7/14/05, Yann Golanski <yann at kierun.org> wrote:
> I am trying to burn to my CD drive and I keep getting the same error,
> namely "only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Device busy".  I've been able to
> write to that dive from FreeBSD in the past but now, nada.

> # burncd -f /dev/acd0 audio test.wav fixate
> next writeable LBA 4720
> writing from file test.wav size 84006 KB
> written this track 735 KB (0%) total 735 KB
> only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Device busy
> 
> fixating CD, please wait..
> [...hangs...]

This is well reported. Burncd has become rather dated, and is not
keeping up with newer drives. DVD recorders poorly supported.
Enable atapicam, and switch to cdrecord. It will work flawlessly. I
use it myself with a Pioneer DVD, possibly the same model. I had the
same problems with burncd.