Problems with cd burner

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Devin Whalen wrote:
> I am trying to burn some files on my Linux box but I can't seem to mount
> the cd-rw drive as rw.  It is a usb cd burner and it is getting picked
> up by the system but when I try to mount it I get this error:
> /home/devin root at localhost:]$mount -o rw /mnt/cdrom2/
> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

CD burners *aren't* conventional read-write storage, because they can be
written to only in very restricted ways.  Linux opted to handle this by
requiring that you mount them read-only, and do writing to them using
special programs.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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