dvd+rw+r for FreeBSD -- Success!

[Andrew Gould]

Thanks, that did the trick.

Andrew

--- Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
wrote:
>    Did you format the DVD+RW ?  DVD+RW disks have to
> be formatted exactly
>    once before you can burn them.  Once formatted
> you can burn them over 
>    and over again.  See the dvd+rw-format program.
> 
>    If that doesn't work run dvd+rw-mediainfo with
> the DVD+RW in the drive.
>    I'm not an expert but the 500A does work for me
> with DVD+RW disks.
> 
> 						-Matt
> 
> :Update:  Progress without success
> :
> :I've recompiled my system and kernel with atapicam.
> :Executing 'camcontrol devlist' results in a listing
> of
> :my dvd burner as a scsi device.  Once I changed
> :'/dev/acd0c' to '/dev/cd0c' in /etc/fstab, I was
> able
> :to mount a cdrom in /dev/cd0c to /cdrom.
> :
> :I executed the following as root ('./testfile' is a
> :short text file.):
> :
> :>growisofs -Z /dev/cd0c -R -J ./testfile
> :
> :Resutls:
> :Executing 'mkisofs -R -J testfile | builtin_dd
> :of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k seek=0'
> ::-[ LBA=0h, SENSE KEY=5h/ASC=30h,ASCQ=10h ]
> ::-( write failed: Invalid argument
> :
> :Any ideas?
> :
> :Thanks,
> :
> :Andrew Gould