burncd is unable to fixate on Dell Inpiron 2650

[Dan Finn]

FreeBSD stewie.thna.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon
Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004    
root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

the system sees the cdrw as:
Jun 16 12:28:10 stewie kernel: acd0: CDRW <TEAC CD-RW CD-W224E> at
ata1-master PIO4


[ root @ stewie : ~] : burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data
/home/dfinn/gths.iso fixate
next writeable LBA 0
writing from file /home/dfinn/gths.iso size 144800 KB
written this track 144800 KB (100%) total 144800 KB
fixating CD, please wait..
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error

I get the same errors when trying to burn an audio cd.  Every time it
burns it just fine it just fails to fixate the disk when done.

Any ideas?