CD/DVD writer no longer works

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On 11:34:25 Dec 06, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> 

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> I can see the device using atacontrol.
> root at utd59514# atacontrol info ata0
> Master: acd0 <HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B/0D20> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
> Slave:  acd1 <TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B/DE03> ATA/ATAPI revision 5

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> Drive buf size : 1016064 = 992 KB
> FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data   616 MB
> Total size:      707 MB (70:07.13) = 315535 sectors
> Lout start:      708 MB (70:09/10) = 315535 sectors
> cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
> cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!
> 
> I just upgraded from FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE hoping that might 
> solve the problem.  (I cvsupped the sources and ran make 
> buildworld/buildkernel, etc.)
> 
> Do I have a hardware failure?  Or is something else wrong?

Check your jumpers. I had a similar problem that I fixed by using the
right jumper on the CD/DVD drive.

-Girish