Are RWs a problem?

[Mike McCarty]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> 
>>On 4/5/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 
> 
> wrote:
> 
>>>>Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>>>
>>>There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something,
>>>probably automount, is grabbing the device.  Make sure you have closed
>>>any file manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop,
>>>use it to umount the device.
>>
>>Thanks Anne, doing a umount on /dev/hdd solved the problem.
>>
>>This is weird though - shouldn't Fedora automagically do this thing for us?
>>I
>>
>>I don't recall ever having to do a manual umount on my burner device
>>whenever I had to to erase rewriteable media on a RHEL-clone like
>>CentOS.
>>
> 
> I'm not exactly sure of the cause, but I have met this from time to time over 
> the last couple of years.  I suspect that the fast-changing scene of 
> auto-mounting is responsible.  ISTR that it happened at some stages in 
> Mandriva, then disappeared at others.

It's the way my machine works, and umount is what I've had to
do. I use FC2.

Mike
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