CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x

[Predrag Punosevac]

Make sure you add atapicam into your kernel it is not in generic! I had 
the same problem.

/etc/loader.conf   atapicam_load="YES"


Crist J. Clark wrote:
> I just tried to burn a CD for the first time in a long time
> on a machine. The burncd(8) command worked fine on this machine
> in FreeBSD 5.x (or was it 4.x?), but now in 6.2, I get,
>
>   # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 32 data hw.iso fixate
>   burncd: ioctl(CDIOCSTART): Input/output error
>
> Looking at the dmesg(1) from the last boot,
>
>   # fgrep cd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot
>   acd0: CDROM <CRD-8400B/1.06> at ata1-master UDMA33
>
> Makes me think the system is not recognizing the device as CDRW,
> only CDROM. I get this from atacontrol(8),
>
>   # atacontrol info ata1
>   Master: acd0 <CRD-8400B/1.06> ATA/ATAPI revision 0
>   Slave:       no device present
>   # atacontrol cap acd0
>
>   Protocol              ATA/ATAPI revision 0
>   device model          CRD-8400B
>   serial number         1999/10/12
>   firmware revision     1.06
>   cylinders             0
>   heads                 0
>   sectors/track         0
>   lba supported         
>   lba48 not supported       
>   dma supported
>   overlap not supported
>
>   Feature                      Support  Enable    Value           Vendor
>   write cache                    no       no
>   read ahead                     no       no
>   Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   no       no      0/0x00
>   SMART                          no       no
>   microcode download             no       no
>   security                       no       no
>   power management               no       no
>   advanced power management      no       no      0/0x00
>   automatic acoustic management  no       no      0/0x00  0/0x00
>
> How can I restore burning capability?
>