Re: Burning CDs and DVDs on SATA drive in FreeBSD 9.0

From: Michiel Boland <boland37_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:49:24 +0100
On 12/08/2011 01:25, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I can't get cdrtools (cdrecord or readcd) to work on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2, and now I see RC3 is available.
>
> I tried "options ATA_CAM" in kernel config, removing "device atapicam", but still
> readcd -scanbus  or
> cdrecord -scanbus
> refuses to work, running as root.
>
> "camcontrol devlist" shows my DVD drive, and I am able to mount and read /dev/cd0.
>
> Is cdrtools buggy, or maybe the FreeBSD port is buggy?
>
> I see from the Makefile that sysutils/cdrdao is broken on FreeBSD 9.x, does not link.
>
> I downloaded cdrkit-1.1.11.tar.gz so as to extract and have a look at it, and possibly build it on my own, outside the ports system.
>
> I see the version in ports system is 1.1.9, maybe 1.1.11 could do better?
>
> Maybe the FreeBSD developers were too hasty to deprecate burncd?

Recompile the port; the CAM ioctl numbers have changed.

Cheers
Michiel
Received on Thu Dec 08 2011 - 13:02:35 UTC

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