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Subject: Re: Unable to erase CD-RW discs
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Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> writes:

> the CD-RW disks are blank. However, a peculiar thing
> happens when I try to blank or erase a CD-RW disk. The
> server just hangs.When I abort the process using

On 5.4, "burncd" doesn't work well with my burner either.  We probably
should file PRs about it, but we can't expect such nasty problems to
get fixed soon.  I've found that the "sysutils/cdrtools" port's
software works better, though it might require a kernel rebuild to
enable the SCSI-ATAPI stuff.