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Re: cdrecord can't get mmap on /dev/zero



On Sun, 13 May 2001, David Purton wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2001, Simeon Walker wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation
> > > with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer:
> > > 
> > >      cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on
> > >      /dev/zero
> > > 
> > > Any ideas what the problem is and a solution?
> > > 
> > > Many Thanks,
> > > Graham
> > > 
> 
> Oddly enough, I just installed this version today, since the testing
> version was giving me grief and got the same error.
> 
> But when I used xcdroast to burn the image, everything worked fine.
> 
> But I don't know why yet :)
> 

ah - not so exciting xcdroast uses its builtin cdrecord which is only
version 1.6 or something :(
Google seems to know about this prob but doesn't offer a fix


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