From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 01:23:10 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 D3E2916A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:23:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CAF43D5C for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:23:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DBA5DAB; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01003-03; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:23:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C315C45; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:23:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42EECAFC.3000800@mac.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:23:08 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mitchell References: <20050801170353.P10855@fw.skeleton.org> In-Reply-To: <20050801170353.P10855@fw.skeleton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD burning.. 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: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:23:11 -0000 Jeff Mitchell wrote: [ ... ] > Installed the dvd tools to get growisofs since this seemed like the > main alternative to cdrecord. (burncd didn't seem to like to burn DVDs, > though I forget exactly its output.) > > growisofs seems to almost work, but breaks and is slow: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=buckdvd.iso > > That results in.. > > Executing 'builtin_dd if=buckdvd.iso of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k seek=0' > /dev/pass0: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps. > 1867776/2937458688 ( 0.1%) @0.4x, remaining 104:46 [ ... ] > 16547840/2937458688 ( 0.6%) @0.0x, remaining 455:59 > :-[ WRITE@LBA=1f90h failed with SK=6h/ASC=29h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error > builtin_dd: 8080*2KB out @ average 0.1x1385KBps > :-( write failed: Input/output error > /dev/pass0: flushing cache > :-[ FLUSH CACHE failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=01h]: Resource temporarily > unavailable > :-[ SYNCHRONOUS FLUSH CACHE failed with SK=2h/ASC=04h/ACQ=01h]: Resource > temporarily unavailable > > So it would seem to take hours to burn a DVD, and tanks after a few > moments anyway. Is "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma" set to 1? It looks like your system isn't able to send enough data to the burner to run at 4x, perhaps try burning at 1x speed and see whether that is more reliable. (Often that works better with low-quality DVD-R media, anyway...) You might want to double check your ATA connections, is the burner on its own channel as the primary master, by preference...? -- -Chuck