From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 22:48:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C109316A41C for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:48:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2F643D48 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:48:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j55Mmtb36859; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Steven Friedrich" Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:48:04 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200506051119.52955.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: link in handbook appears to be broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:48:07 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Steven >Friedrich >Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 8:20 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: link in handbook appears to be broken > > >On Saturday 04 June 2005 01:04 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Hi Steven >> >> Please don't waste time with this. development of burncd is pretty >> much >> dead. Even the CD's on the list that it supported (of which >I have one) >> often didn't work right. And all of them are old, no longer in >> production. >> burncd is there so if you have a burner sitting around you can plug >> it in and see if it works. >> >> These days most people use the ATAPI/CAM driver with IDE >burners, see: >> >> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creati >ng-cds.ht >> ml#ATAPICAM >> >> Ted > >Ok, but I'm getting nearly the same error with cdrecord. > >cdrecord -blank=all -eject dev=toshiba seemed to work ok. >cdrecord dev=toshiba cd1.iso didn't complain >but then mount /cdrom produced >acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x15 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 > > >Can someone tell me where to find the meanings of these codes? > What you see is what you get - the error "MEDIUM ERROR" seems pretty clear to me - it means that the CD you burned isn't readable. What are you after - a masters thesis spewed out for every little error? That would bloat the code. FreeBSD tells you there's an error it's your job to find out why there is one. Since as you said in your other posting you are making good CD's at low-speed burn, and frizbees at high speed burn, there is a good chance you are underrunning the buffer in the burner. Get a faster CPU or live with lower speed burns. UNIX is a preemptive operating system. That means that during your CD burn, if something else goes on in the system by some other process, then your burning process gets paused. If the burner you are using has a very small internal buffer than it will run out of data and you will produce a frisbee. WinXP by contrast lets apps like Roxio basically halt the OS while your doing some time-critical operation. That's fine for a single-user OS but pretty stupid for a server what has lots of people using it all the time. That is why people don't use WinXP for servers. You cna try playing with the nice command and your cd burns and see if you can make any difference. Ted