burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

[O. Hartmann]

Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Sergey N. Voronkov wrote:
>>> just noticed, after upgrading to 6.2RC1, that
>>>
>>>     luigi# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank
>>>     blanking CD, please wait..
>>>
>>> stays there forever. Eventually i gave up and ctrl-C and
>>> the application terminates, and i was able to write to
>>> the disk a valid image, which probably means that the
>>> disk had been blanked.
>
>   Yes, well known RELENG_4 -> 6 (maybe even 5) regression. Same here with
>
> acd0: CDRW <CD-W540E/1.0C> at ata1-master UDMA33
>
> Worked fine under RELENG_4, fails to wait for completion under RELENG_6.
>
>> See my report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/95344
>> And: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/104270
>>
>> The last one contain a fix.
>
> This fix doesn't help me.
>
>> Serg.
>>
>> P.S.: Don't use burncd. Use cdrecord!
>
>   IMHO it isn't correct approach to avoid use of the tool _instead_ of
> fixing
> it. This way, all your tools will be broken one day ;)
>
> Sincerely, Dmitry
Since this is a very old and well known issue, and it seems there is no
one left solcing/developing this tool, it should be removed from the
source tree for the time it is to said broken.
burncd had some nice advantages over cdrecord: it came from the BSD
tree, it had capabilities for burning DVD+RW images. Disadvantage was
the limitation to ATA interface.

Someone should suggest the stripp off the sources via PR?

Regards,
Oliver

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