Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

David Vincelli micologist at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 07:55:05 PST 2004


Hi Ian,

What do you mean by when you say you "mount them as a SCSI device".
Which device is that?

Thanks,


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22:16 +1030, Ian Moore <imoore at picknowl.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a
> > few days ago to have the atapicam device (the only difference with the
> > stock kernel). I added hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" to /boot/loader.conf, and
> > indeed the device is accessed in UltraDMA mode 2.  My DVD burner is a
> > Pioneer DVR-108 with the latest firmware at this time (1.18). I can
> > burn DVDs using growisofs but I get a vague input/output error when I
> > try to mount them. (mount failed: input/output error, if I recall
> > correctly). The command I use to mount is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0
> > /mnt. It seems I cannot mount DVDs at all, even originals. I was
> > wondering if the drive was defective so I tried it under a windows
> > environment and it could read the DVDs fine, even the ones I created
> > under FreeBSD.  I'd give you a full listing of the full error that
> > would swamp the (real) console when I tried to mount the DVDs but I
> > don't have access to the box right now. It was a scsi error. asq 8,3
> > is one of them from what I remember :)
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> Hi Vince,
> I bought the same DVD drive a few weeks ago & it works just fine on my
> 5.3-RELEASE system. I can watch DVDs, mount a DVD-ROM & I've burnt a DVD-RW
> successfully. There's nothing special in my kernel except ATAPICAM support.
> I mount it as a SCSI device, so maybe it's worth trying that on your system?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Ian
> 
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David Vincelli


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