[FC5] Unable to blank CD-RW

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 08 September 2006 03:19, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>2006/9/8, Antonio Montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> Suddenly I am not able to blank any CD-RW with KB3.
>> I get the following report:
>>
>> System
>> -----------------------
>> K3b Version: 0.12.15
>>
>> KDE Version: 3.5.4-0.1.fc5 Fedora-Core
>> QT Version:  3.3.6
>> Kernel:      2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
>> Devices
>> -----------------------
>> QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242U UU30 (/dev/hdc, ) at  [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM;
>> DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P;
>> SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R]
>>
>> Used versions
>> -----------------------
>> cdrecord: 2.1.1a03
>>
>> cdrecord command:
>> -----------------------
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=24 -tao
>> driveropts=burnfree -eject blank=fast -force
>>
>> cdrecord
>> -----------------------
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do
>> mlockall(2).
>>
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer
>> underruns. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot
>> set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot
>> set priority using setpriority().
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer
>> underruns. scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
>> devname: '/dev/hdc'
>> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> Error trying to open /dev/hdc exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdc'.
>> Cannot open SCSI driver.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make
>> sure you are root.
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord
>> dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright
>> (C) 1995-2005 Jörg Schilling
>> NOTE: This version contains the OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools and
>> thus may have bugs related to DVD issues that are not present in the
>> original cdrtools. Please send bug reports or support requests to
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla The original cdrtools author should
>> not be bothered with problems in this version.
>> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>>
>> What shall I do??
>>
You cannot work on a mounted disk.
>> --
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>
>one more information:
>
>if I issue the command:
>
>umount /dev/cdrw (only by root, no way by the user) the CD-RW is blanked.
>What is happening????
>--
>Antonio Montagnani
>Skype : antoniomontag

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