From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 18:32:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F4C16A417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:32:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5083B13C457 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:32:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 17205 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2007 18:32:45 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Nov 2007 18:32:45 -0000 Message-ID: <473C9079.2080000@chuckr.org> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:31:21 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: cdrom instabilities X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:32:46 -0000 My new system, running FreeBSD-current, seems to be very unstable with regards to my SONY CD-RW CRX320E/NYK2 drive. One example is, I can't seem to use the KDE cdrom burning utility, k3b, to use the drive at all, because it won't recognize it. I needed to burn some ISO images, so I finally used burncd, but even though burncd did burn the images of FreeBSD (amd64) that I needed, once the images were finished, I couldn't eject the drives (neither manually, nor using burncd). Burncd would, when asked to eject the drive, respond that the drive was busy, and I finally had to reboot the machine in order to get my disks out. Funny, though it seemed that probably the burning wasn't finished, the disks were usable, and did in fact boot on the target machine just fine. Also, when I try to use the drive for music, using kscd (the only music player that seems to work for me), the drive stops listening to commands on an intermittent basis. Is there any problem with IDE cdroms that is commonly a cause of such problems? Any suggestions you make, I'll try to investigate, so please go ahead and give me your guesses. I can't keep on rebooting my machine just to get my cdroms out. Thanks.