cdrom instabilities

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

Hi, Chuck

> My new system, running FreeBSD-current, seems to be very unstable with 
> regards to my SONY CD-RW CRX320E/NYK2 drive.  One example is, I can't 
> seem to use the KDE cdrom burning utility, k3b, to use the drive at all, 
> because it won't recognize it.  I needed to burn some ISO images, so I 

Do you have read /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b/pkg-message ?

> Is there any problem with IDE cdroms that is commonly a cause of such 
> problems?  Any suggestions you make, I'll try to investigate, so please 
> go ahead and give me your guesses.  I can't keep on rebooting my machine 
> just to get my cdroms out.

Please, show your verbose dmesg.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov