From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 9:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550D37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.154]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA21681 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:55:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA09178 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:55:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:55:39 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sony Spressa USB CDR errors Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was pleasently surprised to see this drive come up in my dmesg (in the generic 4.1.1 kernel no less) as: cd0 at umass-sim32 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 650KB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I installed the cdrecord port and the write eventually worked with: # cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 4.2-RC1-install.iso but in the finalizing stage I got a large number of errors like: Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS) and I'd say about 300 more almost exactly like it. it took about 50 minutes just in the fixing stage, but seemed to work. I can mount the CD and everything seems to be there, but have not yet tried to install with it. One intersting note is: tim# pwd /cdrom tim# du -ks . 619864 . Does anybody have any ideas on this or know where I could ask? The manpage is mostly not about FreeBSD. Thanks a lot, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message