burncd makes disk that is unmountable

[Jerry McAllister]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:44:00PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> >
> >>AMD64 running 6.0
> >>Drive is:
> >>  acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A301> at ata0-master UDMA66
> >>Media is CD-RW
> >>
> >>Burned a 6.2 disk using:
> >>  burncd data 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate
> >>as suggested in
> >>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
> >
> >I don't remember the details, but when I got to 6.1, I found that
> >my old burncd parameters would not work and I had to change them.
> >
> >I don't remember the details, but I settled upon:
> >  /usr/sbin/burncd -v -f /dev/acd0 data FreeBSD62-disc1.iso fixate
> >which seems to work find.  Both boots and mounts.  That doesn't look
> >materially different from yours, but...
> >
> >////jerry
> >
> >>Seemed to go okay.  Disk boots, but I cannot mount it:
> >>
> >>fstab entry:
> >>  /dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       
> >>  0
> >>
> >>Yields:
> >>  g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5
> >>
> >>Tried it with and without "fixate", neither will mount.
> >>
> >>Other iso disks (probably burned using NetBSD) mount fine.
> >>UFS DVD+RW disks burned under FreeBSD using growisofs mount fine.
> >>
> >>Given the error message, I assume that the block/sector at 32768 isn't
> >>getting written.
> 
> I hate to slam burncd because it does the job, but I've always found 
> cdrecord / mkisofs to be a better set of software for burning CDs than 
> burncd.. Besides, burncd chokes on permission errors on my machine 
> whereas cdrecord keeps on humming away with issue, and I've been using 
> it for 2 releases now (6.1, 6.2).

When I was having trouble the last time, I thought about using
cdrecord, but managed to get burncd working OK.  I use it because
it is there and normally does what I want.  I would have to
install cdrecord separately and figure out how to use it.

////jerry

> 
> -Garrett
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