On Oct 22, Andy Loukes wrote
> I have recently got cdrecord working with an ATAPI HP 7100 cd writer (yes 
> I know ATAPI sucks, but it wasn't up to me!).
> 
> The whole machine locks up when it is 'fixating' the disk. The cd writer
> is on a different ide interface to the harddisk.
> 
> Is anyone else getting this, is there anything I can do about it, should I
> ask elsewhere?
> 

What version of NetBSD do you use ?
With the stock 1.3.2 ATAPI driver, there's a problem with timeouts:
SCSI commands timeouts after 10s, regardless of what the atapibus
layer asked. So the fixate command will time out, which is, I the reason of
your problem.
Maybe trying the latest IDE patches for 1.3.2 will fix the problem ...
-current has more fixes I didn't have the time to port back to 1.3.2.

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