That's where I first went for information. I've successfully burned a CD-R using cdrecord, as opposed to burncd, which I would normally use for ide burners. I will check on the firmware. Thanks, Andrew Gould --- "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> wrote:> Try visiting > http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ and make > sure your > hardware is working properly (i.e. firmware is > up-to-date). Pehaps I will > give it s try on my burner tonight and see how far > it gets me. > > Tom Veldhouse > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould@yahoo.com> > To: "Andrew Sparrow" <spadger@spadger.best.vwh.net>; > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" > <veldy@veldy.net> > Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:11 PM > Subject: Re: dvd+rw+r for FreeBSD -- Progress but no > success > > > > 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