Cdrecord not working - please help!

[Robert Storey]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:53:58 -0500
Steven Pasternak <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I use FC2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cdrecord 2.01.1-0.FC2.1 and cd
> burning WON'T WORK!! I have /usr/bin/cdrecord set to 4711 and /dev/hdc
> set to 666 and no luck! the md5sum checks out, and even burning as
> root doesn't work! I went through 3 CD-Rs and all wasted. My burner
> has a light that is green when reading, yellow for something else (I
> think fixating) and red for burning. I have tried command line and
> k3b. It will "start writing", be red for 1-2 seconds, then switch from
> yellow to green many times. I try to kill it, but 1. it wont die 2. it
> won't let me open my cdrom (even with eject, which freezes). Finally,
> after a minute, it dies and gives me a worthless, dead,
> partially-written-on cd-r. cdrecord says that it couldn't fixate disk.
> Could it be cdrecord, permissions, or the kernel itself? Thanks!
> -Steven

Dear Steven,

Don't know about FC2, but on FC3, you have to do...

up2date udev

...to get it working properly.

regards,
Robert