<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2008 5:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <<a href="mailto:hugh@mimosa.com">hugh@mimosa.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Another mystery: what is wodim? That one is easy: wodim is a fork of<br>cdrecord. So I was actually using wodim.<br><br><br>OK, what does "wodim --devices" say?<br> Segmentation fault<br></blockquote>
<br>"man wodim" says this:<br> "because certain versions of Linux (kernel) limit<br> the set of SCSI commands allowed for non-root users. Even if usage without<br> root identity is possible in many cases, some device drivers still may fail,
<br> show unexplainable problems and generally the problems become harder to debug.<br> The risk for buffer-underruns is also increased"<br>could that be a hint?<br><br>could it be that the drive just went belly up?
<br>I can't remember where and when I read that some drives break <br>when used in certain scenarios. I may be wrong.<br><br>~af<br></div><br>