cd stuck in cd drive after failed burn

[Anthony Philipp]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:59:44AM +0300, marju ignatjeva wrote:
> Hi,
> offering a rude solution and _mostly_ asking for help on the same issue...
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Anthony Philipp wrote:
> > After burning trying to burn a cd with too much information on it, it ended up with this error.
> >
> > only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Input/output error
> >
> > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error
> >
> > But the cd was stuck in the drive, and would not respond when I pressed the eject button. I was just wondering if this was a common error or just a bug that since been fixed. Also if this happens again, is there a way to force a cd eject without rebooting? I am running FreeBSD-5.2-RELEASE. Thanks for the help.
> 
> I've had a similar experience with my no-brand ATAPI cd-r device (the
> motherboard is i440LX which doesn't in fact recognize the drive as to its
> BIOS; my FreeBSD 4.8-R is able to mount data cds and reads them OK); so
> anyway, the burncd fixating process always fails to finish the cd (the
> writing part is always fine),
> does not respond and after receiving CTRL-C outputs the friendly
> 	 cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output
> or something similar to your
> 	burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH)): Input/output error
> AND the cd gets stuck, the drive doesn't respond.
> Some kernel messages have always been issued, however I wasn't able to
> find them in the log files known to me (where does the system log media
> read/write errors and the like?).
> 
> My rough and rude solution to removing the stuck cd has usually been
> 1) try to mount the failed cd on purpose (results in
> 	cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error or
> 	cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument )
> 2) then try to umount /cdrom on purpose (results in
> 	umount: /cdrom: not currently mounted)
> after which i have usually been able to get in touch with the drive again
> and remove the disk.
> Sounds pretty (very) violent to me.
> 
> So on one hand, it has been possible to remove the now-useless disk
> without rebooting (well, the very last time the system actually
> _did_ crash along with a continous beep), but...
> 
> So whoever is trying to lend a helping hand, please share your opinions on
> whether it might be the old and tired motherboard that has problems with
> my cd-r drive (in my case) (enabling or disabling DMA has not changed
> matters)?
> Or might some other solutions be looked for?
> The mailing lists I have scanned through have not offered anything
> relevant or helpful regarding this issue.
> 
> Lastly, I have tested the same drive with a different board which managed
> to recognize the drive as to its BIOS, however, no burncd software was
> available at that occasion.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> 
> marju
Well I should probably add that I have only experienced this problem once, and that usually burning a cd goes just fine, I have burned plenty of cds with it before. So if anyone has any idea whether it is a software or hardware bug, I would really appreciate the feedback.
Thanks again
Anthony