help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

Wed Apr 12 02:24:23 UTC 2006

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, George Hartzell wrote:

> I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW
> drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard.
>
> When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says
> "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports
>
>  burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error

I reported it[1] awhile ago.  It stems from how FreeBSD checks the
status of the drive and/or how the drive reports back.  It used to work
with FreeBSD 4, but the manner of how the drive is checked changed with
FreeBSD 5+.

Seán
   1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=83702
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