Re: CD Writing Hostile-Takeover

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On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:28, Adam Voigt wrote:
> I finally got my FireWire CD-RW working (thanks to those who helped),
> but now for some reason XCD-Roast won't burn CD's. I triple checked all
> the settings, and they are right, and it gets up to the status screen
> where it does the "Writing CD" with progress dialog, etc. However,
> nothing actually happens. Manually running "cdrecord" from the command
> line with all the appropriate options, does nothing as well (it says
> it's starting the actual burn, but just sits there).
> 
> However, if using Nautilus, I right click on an "iso" image and go to
> burn, it works fine, but this only allows me to burn pre-prepared iso
> images, not CD to CD, etc.
> 
> My hypothesis is that because Nautilus pops up the "burn:///" dialog,
> when I insert a blank CD, that it must be commandeering the CD-RW drive,
> preventing any other programs from writing to it.
> 
> Does this sound like whats happening? If yes, how can I stop it? If no,
> got any ideas?

Hmm I'd be very surprised if Nautilus worked that way and hogged the
device as soon as a burn:/// window is open. Maybe you could tell us
more details, like how you run cdrecord, what's in /proc/scsi/scsi and
so on. You might as well strace the cdrecord process and look where it
gets stuck.

Nils
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