Re: cdrecord floating point exception

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Parker Jones <zoubidoo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to burn a DVD+RW with cdrecord and get a floating point exception.  Can't make out what the error means.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Parker
>
>
> Platform Ubuntu 8.10 i386
> ii  wodim                     9:1.1.6-1ubuntu6          command line CD/DVD writing tool
>
>
> $ cdrecord -v -dao speed=1 dev=/dev/dvd newworld.iso 
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: '/dev/dvd'
> devname: '/dev/dvd'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Wodim version: 1.1.6

You are not using cdrecord but a defective and illegal fork.

BTW: This fork does not support DVD writing correctly.

Upgrade to recent original software from

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

Jörg

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