I just wanted to burn a CD from a .iso

Aldo Foot lunixer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 02:58:57 UTC 2008


On Jan 18, 2008 5:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

> Another mystery: what is wodim?  That one is easy: wodim is a fork of
> cdrecord.  So I was actually using wodim.
>
>
> OK, what does "wodim --devices" say?
>        Segmentation fault
>

"man wodim" says this:
       "because certain versions of Linux (kernel) limit
       the set of SCSI commands allowed for non-root users.  Even  if
usage  without
       root  identity  is possible in many cases, some device drivers still
may fail,
       show unexplainable problems and generally the problems become harder
to debug.
       The  risk  for  buffer-underruns is also increased"
could that be a hint?

could it be that the drive just went belly up?
I can't remember where and when I read that some drives break
when used in certain scenarios. I may be wrong.

~af
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