Re: CDRW won't work
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid.
>
> I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW.
>
> I typed the following command:
> "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image"
> and got the following response:
> "Cdrecord 1.10a18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero."
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm using a 2.2.18pre21 kernel.
>
this is the problem - apprantly the unstable version of cdrecord was
compiled with a 2.4 kernel, and something isn't compatible, so you can
either upgrade to a 2.4 kernel, recompile (as someone else suggested) or
downgrade to the potato version of cdrecord
cheers
dc
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