Maybe you can fix it by disabling Autorun-Options in the Gnome-Preferences-->CD. it worked for me :) (Because the CDRW is automounted its blocked for cdrecord) Michael Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Joolz um 08:58: > Hello everyone, > > Cdrecord seems to have problems opening /dev/scd0. In order to use it > as non-root, I followed the man pages: > > chown root /usr/bin/cdrecord > chmod 4711 /usr/bin/cdrecord > > Everything seems to be fine, cdrecord --scanbus gives this: > > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W2410A' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM > > but when I try to blank a cdrom '/usr/bin/cdrecord blank=fast > dev=0,0,0' this happens: > > /usr/bin/cdrecord blank=fast dev=0,0,0 > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling > scsidev: '0,0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > bailing out.. > > The same happens when I try to write a cdrom. Does anyone know what > goes wrong here? Thanks!