Are RWs a problem?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:11 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I haven't used RW disks for ages, but since I wanted to experiment a bit, it 
> seemed sensible.  I put a CD-RW into k3b (FC4) and it erased it happily, but 
> I can't get it to burn to the disk at all.  I'm just getting messages like
> 
> Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot 
> open SCSI driver.
> 
> I did the same batch of files onto a CD-R without any problem at all.
> 
> Is this a known problem?

Sounds like something has the device mounted already.  Check the mount
table:  df -vh

and make sure the device is not mounted.  Then try k3b again.