cdrecord problem: Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively

[Michael Mattern]

Maybe you can fix it by disabling Autorun-Options in the
Gnome-Preferences-->CD. it worked for me :)
(Because the CDRW is automounted its blocked for cdrecord)


Michael

Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Joolz um 08:58:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Cdrecord seems to have problems opening /dev/scd0. In order to use it
> as non-root, I followed the man pages:
> 
>   chown root /usr/bin/cdrecord
>   chmod 4711 /usr/bin/cdrecord
> 
> Everything seems to be fine, cdrecord --scanbus gives this:
> 
>   scsibus0:
>   0,0,0     0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W2410A' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM
> 
> but when I try to blank a cdrom '/usr/bin/cdrecord blank=fast
> dev=0,0,0' this happens:
> 
>   /usr/bin/cdrecord blank=fast dev=0,0,0
>   Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling
>   scsidev: '0,0,0'
>   scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
>   Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>   bailing out..
> 
> The same happens when I try to write a cdrom. Does anyone know what
> goes wrong here? Thanks!