Getting my CD burner working

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:36:43AM -0400, Tom Watts wrote:
> I am running it as root.  If it means anything, eject has no problem 
> with the device and it usually needs to wait for it to be not busy; is 
> that the same thing as waiting for an exclusive lock?

Eject only has a problem if it is locked due to being mounted.  That
would require something actually mounting it with a valid filesystem
already on it.

Check if hald or volume manager or vold or something similar is running.
If it is, try stopping it using the init.d script for it, and then see
if you can write.  hald is causing lots of burner grief it seems due to
not locking the device correctly and ignoring locks from other
processes.

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Len Sorensen
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