Unable to blank CD-ROMs-- phantom process?

[Elton Woo]

On September 20, 2003 07:21 pm, Ben Hsu Ben Hsu <benhsu at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I tried to blank a CD-RW with "cdrecord -blank=fast" after burning it. I
> got the error message:
>
> Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>
> I am able to blank the CD by going into single user mode. In summary:
Disable magicdev. See past discussions of magicdev and CD burning
problems in the shrike-list and rhl-beta list archives.

cheers & HTH,

Elton ;-)
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