cdrecord cannot blank CD RW

[nirlep patel]

well my suggestion is you should follow this path:

I am using Fedora Core 4.

Application -> Sound & Video -> K3b

I used with this and I have erased my CD-RW so many times, just go through
this , it's a very easy.

hope you will solve..

cheers



On 5/14/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > On 5/14/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >> >> > > Whenever I try to blank a CD RW, I get the following:
> >> ...
> >> >> > > cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for
> >> >> > > 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero.
> >> >> > > $
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Any ideas?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Does it work if you run it as root?
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes, it does.
> >> >
> >> > Notwithstanding, I suppose it should work as user and not only as
> root.
> >> I found that this happens because the CD is currently (auto)mounted.
> >>  From nautilus the only option is eject. When you put the disc back in,
> >> it gets mounted again :~{
> >>
> >> Some kind folks mentioned gnome-umount:
> >> # gnome-umount -d /dev/cdrw
> >> then use your writing tools (eg k3b...)
> >
> > I am using KDE. Does someone know how to disable automount on KDE?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> So am I, and when kde brings up the what do I do with this window after
> inserting an audio cd for instance, I just tell it 'nothing', and
> 'mount' does not currently show it as mounted. I would assume that if it
> was a writable cd, that I should be able to proceed.
>
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