On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:58 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > > > > > >>Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > > > > > > There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something, probably > > automount, is grabbing the device. Make sure you have closed any file > > manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop, use it to > > umount the device. > > Erm, not on my machine. I have to use umount from a CLI. Using > the desktop icon results in the disc being ejected. ---- which would probably work because a program such as K3b would call for it to be inserted and not mount such a disk but rather perform whatever is needed to erase and start writing. Craig
