Hi,
Mike Scheutzow wrote:
do you think that this user
could be having the well-known "udev polls the dvd" problem?
That can cause a block device to appear to be read-only.
Well if it does cause such effects then it is surely worth a
try to disable it.
udev and hald are the natural enemies of burn programs.
We compete for the same hardware and the OS normally does not
care about arbitrating.
Nevertheless, i would have expected that the block device
driver gets more respect by udev.
Here's one hit from google
(different symptom, but solution would be the same):
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1399/dvd-drive-constanly-spins-up-down-when-idle
It advises to try:
udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/dvd
or
udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/sr0
Do you have more information about udev causing read-only optical
media ?
Have a nice day :)
Thomas