On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 03:43, Thornton wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 17:44, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > > > > > yes i restarted then even tried a reboot > > > > > > > Alright! What does > > > > ls -l /dev/cdrom > > > > give you? What is the output of > > > > cdrecord -scanbus > > > > >From what I see something is claiming rights on your cdrom and doesn't > > let anybody else operate on it. This something can operate only > > through the driver that runs the device. So either that driver is > > mulfunctioning or something else is fixing itself on the cdrom. > > > > So a couple of things to do is to shut down X-Windows and on one of > > the terminals try to mount the cdrom and see what happens (that way > > you'll know for sure that it's not the 'automount' thing I hinted in > > previous post. > > > > Then browse around your /proc/ide/hdc/ directory that has all the info > > about the device and post your results. > > > > I can think of only three things: 'automout' feature, faulty module, > > bad SCSI, ATAPI module setup. > > > > Good luck! > > When I bootup it is giving an error of mount fd type ro is not > recognized. I tried booting w/ an older kernel and that didnt fix that. > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 17 22:10 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc > > cdrecord -scanbus Try using cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Also, as previously noted, if you are using the 2.6.8 kernel it has burning disabled for a non-root user. That does not seem to be your error though. rebooting will kill all processes, but will not stop nautilus from launching the cdcreator window when a blank CD is inserted. Does the cdcreator window open when the disk is inserted? without having the burner software loaded? Are you logged in at command line or with X running? > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg > Schilling > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version > (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c > 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'Generic ' 'STORAGE DEVICE ' '1.00' Removable Disk > 0,1,0 1) * > 0,2,0 2) * > 0,3,0 3) * > 0,4,0 4) * > 0,5,0 5) * > 0,6,0 6) * > 0,7,0 7) * >
