Re: cdrecord fails on usb connected CD-R with FC4
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:
> Short and sweet, internal ATAPI drives work fine with FC4 and both the
> FC4 hacked cdrecord and the standard built from source. Same hardware
> worked on earlier distributions, had to reinstall for other reasons, was
> using a 2.6.15.1 kernel.
>
> I'm 99% sure this is a distribution rather than kernal issue, auto
> mounting, playing, etc, have all be tured off. When a blank CD is put in
> the drive a "blank CD-R" icon comes up, even though I've tried to
> disable caring. Since the ATAPI drives work and lsof shows no process
> accessing the hardware, I'm at a loss what is causing this.
>
> Tried several FC4 kernels and teh 2.6.15.1 I was running before, same
> behaviour.
>
> Thoughts welcome.
Plug the drive, then kill udevd and anything that looks like hal, umount
every submount filesystem (if Fedora uses that) for the device, and retry.
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Matthias Andree
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