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Demetrius Dade

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:40:52 PM8/3/24

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I have been trying to use my superdrive to burn photos to a cd or dvd. The message I get is "This disc can't be burned because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media." Doesn't anyone burn CD's or DVD's anymore? I have been told by the owner of any Apple repair store that I need a CD/DVD burner that has it's own power supply. In other words I have to plug it into an outlet. Does anyone have the name and model of such a burner. Or what have you done to solve this problem. I do not wan to store my pics in the cloud. It's to expensive andI I have thought about an external Hard drive. However I have a supply of blank cd's and dvd's that I would like to use. I would be appreciate any input if you have solved this problem.

Can't find anything on Amazon. Do you have a model/part number for the HP drive? I really don't know what I am looking for. I would assume that the description would say that it has its own power supply but, I'm not sure. Or a model or part number for the Lenovo.

Thanks Grant. I am not going to fool around with it any more. I also get an error message about the device using to much electricity and that I should disconnect it. That's enough for me. I don't want to do damage to my computer. It's not worth the trouble.

This section describes how to add a new SATA disk to a machine that currently only has a single drive.First, turn off the computer and install the drive in the computer following the instructions of the computer, controller, and drive manufacturers.Reboot the system and become root.

If the disk was formatted with the GPT partitioning scheme, it may show as "corrupted" because the GPT backup partition table is no longer at the end of the drive.Fix the backup partition table with gpart:

Partitions can only be resized into contiguous free space.Here, the last partition on the disk is the swap partition, but the second partition is the one that needs to be resized.Swap partitions only contain temporary data, so it can safely be unmounted, deleted, and then recreate the third partition after resizing the second partition.

There is risk of data loss when modifying the partition table of a mounted file system.It is best to perform the following steps on an unmounted file system while running from a live CD-ROM or USB device.However, if absolutely necessary, a mounted file system can be resized after disabling GEOM safety features:

Resize the partition, leaving room to recreate a swap partition of the desired size.The partition to resize is specified with -i, and the new desired size with -s.Optionally, alignment of the partition is controlled with -a.This only modifies the size of the partition.The file system in the partition will be expanded in a separate step.

FreeBSD uses the umass(4) driver which uses the SCSI subsystem to access USB storage devices.Since any USB device will be seen as a SCSI device by the system, if the USB device is a CD or DVD burner, do not include device atapicam in a custom kernel configuration file.

Allowing untrusted users to mount arbitrary media, by enabling vfs.usermount as described below, should not be considered safe from a security point of view.Most file systems were not built to safeguard against malicious devices.

To make the device mountable as a normal user, one solution is to make all users of the device a member of the operator group using pw(8).Next, ensure that operator is able to read and write the device by adding these lines to /etc/devfs.rules:

This will exclude the first three SCSI disks (da0 to da2) from belonging to the operator group.Replace 3 with the number of internal SCSI disks.Refer to devfs.rules(5) for more information about this file.

Each file system that can be automatically mounted appears as a directory in /media/.The directory is named after the file system label.If the label is missing, the directory is named after the device node.

Compact Disc (CD) media provide a number of features that differentiate them from conventional disks.They are designed so that they can be read continuously without delays to move the head between tracks.While CD media do have tracks, these refer to a section of data to be read continuously, and not a physical property of the disk.The ISO 9660 file system was designed to deal with these differences.

The FreeBSD Ports Collection provides several utilities for burning and duplicating audio and data CDs.This chapter demonstrates the use of several command line utilities.For CD burning software with a graphical utility, consider installing the sysutils/xcdroast or sysutils/k3b packages or ports.

The GENERIC kernel provides support for SCSI, USB, and ATAPICD readers and burners.If a custom kernel is used, the options that need to be present in the kernel configuration file vary by the type of device.

Locate the entry for the CD burner and use the three numbers separated by commas as the value for dev.In this case, the Yamaha burner device is 1,5,0, so the appropriate input to specify that device is dev=1,5,0.Refer to the manual page for cdrecord for other ways to specify this value and for information on writing audio tracks and controlling the write speed.

In order to produce a data CD, the data files that are going to make up the tracks on the CD must be prepared before they can be burned to the CD.In FreeBSD, sysutils/cdrtools installs mkisofs, which can be used to produce an ISO 9660 file system that is an image of a directory tree within a UNIX file system.The simplest usage is to specify the name of the ISO file to create and the path to the files to place into the ISO 9660 file system:

This command maps the file names in the specified path to names that fit the limitations of the standard ISO 9660 file system, and will exclude files that do not meet the standard for ISO file systems.

A number of options are available to overcome the restrictions imposed by the standard.In particular, -R enables the Rock Ridge extensions common to UNIX systems and -J enables Joliet extensions used by Microsoft systems.

For CDs that are going to be used only on FreeBSD systems, -U can be used to disable all filename restrictions.When used with -R, it produces a file system image that is identical to the specified FreeBSD tree, even if it violates the ISO 9660 standard.

The last option of general use is -b.This is used to specify the location of a boot image for use in producing an "El Torito" bootable CD.This option takes an argument which is the path to a boot image from the top of the tree being written to the CD.By default, mkisofs creates an ISO image in "floppy disk emulation" mode, and thus expects the boot image to be exactly 1200, 1440 or 2880 KB in size.Some boot loaders, like the one used by the FreeBSD distribution media, do not use emulation mode.In this case, -no-emul-boot should be used.So, if /tmp/myboot holds a bootable FreeBSD system with the boot image in /tmp/myboot/boot/cdboot, this command would produce /tmp/bootable.iso:

It is possible to copy a data CD to an image file that is functionally equivalent to the image file created with mkisofs.To do so, use dd with the device name as the input file and the name of the ISO to create as the output file:

While any data CD can be mounted this way, disks with certain ISO 9660 extensions might behave oddly.For example, Joliet disks store all filenames in two-byte Unicode characters.If some non-English characters show up as question marks, specify the local charset with -C.For more information, refer to mount_cd9660(8).

Occasionally, Device not configured will be displayed when trying to mount a data CD.This usually means that the CD drive has not detected a disk in the tray, or that the drive is not visible on the bus.It can take a couple of seconds for a CD drive to detect media, so be patient.

This type of disk can not be mounted as a normal data CD.In order to retrieve the data burned to such a CD, the data must be read from the raw device node.For example, this command will extract a compressed tar file located on the second CD device into the current working directory:

Procedure: Duplicating an Audio CD describes how to duplicate and burn an audio CD.If the FreeBSD version is less than 10.0 and the device is ATAPI, the atapicam module must be first loaded using the instructions in Supported Devices.

A device name does not need to be specified if there is only one CD device on the system.Refer to the cdda2wav manual page for instructions on how to specify a device and to learn more about the other options available for this command.

DVD-RAM: This is a rewritable format which can be seen as a removable hard drive. However, this media is not compatible with most DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players as only a few DVD writers support the DVD-RAM format. Refer to Using a DVD-RAM for more information on DVD-RAM use.

A distinction must be made between the physical media and the application.For example, a DVD-Video is a specific file layout that can be written on any recordable DVD physical media such as DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD-RW.Before choosing the type of media, ensure that both the burner and the DVD-Video player are compatible with the media under consideration.

These tools use the SCSI subsystem to access the devices, therefore ATAPI/CAM support must be loaded or statically compiled into the kernel.This support is not needed if the burner uses the USB interface.Refer to USB Storage Devices for more details on USB device configuration.

Since growisofs(1) is a front-end to mkisofs, it will invoke mkisofs(8) to create the file system layout and perform the write on the DVD.This means that an image of the data does not need to be created before the burning process.

For the initial session recording, -Z is used for both single and multiple sessions.Replace /dev/cd0, with the name of the DVD device.Using -dvd-compat indicates that the disk will be closed and that the recording will be unappendable.This should also provide better media compatibility with DVD-ROM drives.